Thread: Fish and Game

Any chemical fertiliser application is bad in my view. All that shit seeps through the ground into the water supply. You can meter it and put what you call a limit on it but at the end of the day it ends up in the ground. The plants dont absorb it all and its only ever building up or being washed into the water supply, its put on year after year after year etc. Put it on to thick and it kills grass. See where im going with that?
Its driven by the need to put as many stock units into a square meter as possible, so to feed them you need to grow more grass which means more fert and to suck more water out of the rivers and ground to put on your paddocks. Rivers are low here because its so dry and because of that more farmers are irrigating. Any chemical seepage into the waterways goes up in concentrate.
Unfortunately the price of land is outrageous so buying any sort of farm puts you in debt for the rest of your life. To try and pay off that debt you have to farm intensively. Never ending cycle.

Fencing off waterways doesnt do fuck all and is the least of our worries, all it does is keep townies happy. Spraying chemicals onto land which has the words eco-toxic and marine pollutant written on the drums is about as stupid as it fuckin gets.

The councils have alot to answer for but all they care about is dollar signs.