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Some of the stuff that's happening here in Aus is pretty amazing. I watched a landline special last year and some farmer (a woman no less) turned the shittiest, pebbliest, ugliest, driest and deadset billygoat country shit you've ever seen into viable pasture and farmland. Soil became good...

Well yeah, but this is localized. As far as we know it's not possible to effect this on a macro scale. Cloud seeding isn't even that difficult really, and it can only work if there's already water in the air. Basically they spray 'dust' for lack of a better term at a specific elevation which...

It's not just the soil, Fish. That's actually the least of our worries. I am familiar with soil. Bad soil. Likely worse by far than anything that occurs in Ireland. It can be turned around. It takes a lot of work, but it can be done with careful planning. You have farming experience and know...

No. Cloud seeding is possible. Global scale change of weather patterns is not known to be possible. The climate is definitely changing, however. Whether that's a result of anthropogenic emissions or natural processes, I couldn't say. To me it's moot for several reasons: The Earth has changed...

Yep. It's all well and good for us to demand they get off oil. We've already had our fun with the dino juice and the big green rock.

Aye. Urban progtards truly are the worst for lecturing farmers and primary producers about what they're doing wrong and why it's all their fault.

Honestly Val needs to think outside the box a little and should diversify what he produces. As I understand things, he farms beef/dairy/w/e and subsequently has an excess of slurry. It's an absolutely superb fertilizer and excellent for improving soil health. There's going to be a way to...

The obvious question I would ask is simply: Why not dig another pit?

I don't know what he's doing. If he's dumping slurry in the river, then yes, it's undoubtedly bad for the environment and likely extremely illegal. If you did that in Australia they'd throw the book at you. However, we live in extremely different biospheres. Slurry dumping in a waterway in...

The problem with slurries entering waterways isn't bacteria (at least if it comes from grass fed cow manure) it's mainly that it contains so much nitrogen. This causes plants and algae to grow totally out of control and choke up water systems/deoxygenate them, especially if they are...