Global warming?

[GerryC]

These things only grew in France when I was a lad.
Taken in Co Meath last week..............................

 

[Corporal Punishment]

Lovely pic Gerry. The countryside needs more colour, less factory farming.
Quick question, when was the last time anyone saw a grasshopper. They used to be all over our garden in the suburbs in the 70's now I live in the country, I haven't seen one in years and I have a lot of grass.
Bloody farmers and their pesticides!!

 

[PeterNI]

These things only grew in France when I was a lad.
Taken in Co Meath last week..............................

Gerry where are you in the picture, your stitch fits in so well

great photo

 

[Damien]

I was down in Carlow, Wexford and Waterford last week and was surprised to see so much corn being grown. Never saw it here before.

 

[STUBBS]

climate change

 

[RS6]

Sorry guys....

These things only grew in France when I was a lad.
Taken in Co Meath last week..............................

...but new genetics means that sunflower can be grown more northerly!

Grashoppere??
Pesticides??
Guys YOU decide what farmers grow, when did you last time buy a ecological produced, piece of meat....? Or something else for that matter?

And if you did, did your neighbor also shop there that day?

Consumers make the choice, a farmer who based his life (and his family too) on his production can not be expected to start to produce products that can not be sold....!

Go "green" or stop complaining....

 

[Dickieboy]

Lovely pic Gerry. The countryside needs more colour, less factory farming.
Quick question, when was the last time anyone saw a grasshopper. They used to be all over our garden in the suburbs in the 70's now I live in the country, I haven't seen one in years and I have a lot of grass.
Bloody farmers and their pesticides!!

Got plenty of grasshoppers in the front garden, the things I seem to miss are butterflies even on the budlea bushes no butterflies this year.

 

[big fella]

Grasshopper

The last time i saw a grasshopper was on kung fu

 

[Corporal Punishment]

...but new genetics means that sunflower can be grown more northerly!

Grashoppere??
Pesticides??
Guys YOU decide what farmers grow, when did you last time buy a ecological produced, piece of meat....? Or something else for that matter?

And if you did, did your neighbor also shop there that day?

Consumers make the choice, a farmer who based his life (and his family too) on his production can not be expected to start to produce products that can not be sold....!

Go "green" or stop complaining....

We are green and organic.
So can I continue complaining about farmers spraying chemicals which also drift onto my property by the way.

 

[RS6]

We are green and organic.
So can I continue complaining about farmers spraying chemicals which also drift onto my property by the way.

Sure that is unprofessional, and illegal actually!

But so so many consumers have such low moral, they complain about production methods, and after that the pick the cheapest products down from the shelf...

There is so much hype about organic.....I usually ask a "organic" person to point out what part of the world we should steal the food from to feed ourselves in case all western Europe decided to go organic...!!??


It is proven above any doubt that organic reduce the production levels by 20-30-40% depending on sector.....and and....forget about beer and whiskey from barley!!

 

[Ravenbyrne]

Got plenty of grasshoppers in the front garden, the things I seem to miss are butterflies even on the budlea bushes no butterflies this year.

Snapped this morning in the back garden

 

[Decster]

These things only grew in France when I was a lad.
Taken in Co Meath last week..............................

seeds probably manufactured in a lab....

 

[Daithi]

Lovely pic Gerry. The countryside needs more colour, less factory farming.
Quick question, when was the last time anyone saw a grasshopper. They used to be all over our garden in the suburbs in the 70's now I live in the country, I haven't seen one in years and I have a lot of grass.
Bloody farmers and their pesticides!!

Loads of them makin noise in the garden..... then again that's in West Clare. The land around that neck of the woods isn't great, only half is farmed the rest is marshy, so I suppose Pesticides aren't an issue.