SOMETIMES Twitter can be a valuable source of news and other times, like most social media, a massive time sapper. But, every now and then a real gem pops up on your feed.
Bordertown farmer Ben Hunt is always entertaining, even his Twitter description gets a giggle – wars fought, sheepdogs tamed, bars emptied... award winning wheat grower and sheep breeder from Btown SA.
But his post on Monday morning was one of the funniest I had ever seen.
Showing his disappointment at the lack of rain, the tweet said: If it were raining strippers, the upper South East would get hit in the back of the head by a portly bloke wearing a g-string – with the post featuring the hashtag ‘wherestherain?’
But, after having a good laugh, I realised I definitely wasn’t the only one disappointed about the lack of rainfall at the weekend.
Thinking we were in for a downpour on Mother’s Day, I put out some fertiliser, but a measly two millimetres ended up falling across the weekend in my neck of the woods.
Usually you can be guaranteed a good downpour at the Broken Hill Agfair, but there’s no front page wet weather photograph from the event this year. Luckily the rain fell not long after the Stock Journal team packed up.
With a number of croppers having to pull up seeding last week due to the then-ongoing dry conditions, Monday’s falls were not a moment too soon, but they were patchy.
The Bureau of Meteorology’s weekly rainfall report recorded only a couple of millimetres in some areas, but up to 74mm in the Adelaide Hills.
Speaking to Mount Pleasant auctioneer Colin Fawcett last week, he said the eastern Adelaide Hills area was in desperate need of a good drink.
“A lot of dams are very low and there’s some people who have never run out of water before that have now run out,” he said.
Mr Fawcett can see some upside potential for cattle prices in the short-term, particularly for young stock.
“Once we get a good rain, and people go looking for cattle, numbers will be difficult to find,” he said.
