....."Hearing the sorghum plant could be affected. Any substance to that Sorgs? Plenty of sunflowers to go in? Interesting times"......
I've got a block that I can't plant and won't get onto for 10 days if it's stinking hot, or 20 days if it stays cool. Of course, that's if it don't rain, hard to see that happen. I have most of mine in though, and it mostly looks very good. We are right at the start of the catchment though, and don't get much overland flow.
People have planted their slopeing paddocks and better drained land. Everyone is left with the lower wetter blocks to go.
Heaps of sorghum went in here last week, and then got up to 200 mills rain straight on top. Some of that will be stuffed and need replanting. We will go with sorghum till new years. After that we will swap to sunflowers and we have another month then to get sunnys in.
I'm surrounded by contract harvester owners here. There are some nightmare stories. Some have headers stuck up north and west. The roads are impassable and are shut anyway, and the rivers are coming down. They reckon up to 50% of the wheat is yet to be harvested, and they seriously reckon that most of the wheat thats left can't be recovered. It is just so low and buggered. This talk of record tonnages still coming off is all rubbish.
Anything could happen with sorghum and sunflowers. If farmers can get credit, I could see farmers out in these parts spraying their paddocks with roundup from the air, leaving for a week, then burning. Then planting with sorghum or sunflowers. They will have to do something.
My wheat could still be fine yet. It was planted in July, and has been green. Still maybe 10 days from being ripe enough to harvest. We have dryers, so will hook in when it's 16% moisture.
