Alastair Lucas & Nicolle Flint’s letters in the Melbourne Age Newspaper

May 17th, 2013

Bush-bashing via media appears to be becoming a national sport. The latest is a letter in the Age Newspaper by Alastair Lucas AM.  He criticises Nicolle Flint’s recent letter regarding the particular section of ABC television which increasingly looks like an unquestioning mouthpiece for animal rights extremists.  They are not presenting the full facts regarding [...]

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Starving cattle to graze in Queensland National Parks

May 16th, 2013

Predictably, conservationists are jumping up and down about the prospect of certain (starving) cattle being allowed to graze in some of Queensland’s National Parks. Quite a few of the parks being considered would already have (feral) cattle in them, and all would have been cattle stations at one time.  They were made National Parks due [...]

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NAPCo – North Australia Pastoral Co – shares for sale

May 13th, 2013

The North Australia Pastoral Co (NAPCo) is one of Australia’s oldest large pastoral companies; having been established in the 1870s. Renowned for conservative, steady management (the most likely style to make a healthy profit, long-term); the ownership of NAPCo has always been kept as secret as possible; with long-term shareholders living unassuming lives out of [...]

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Twitter – how to avoid dodgy accounts

May 8th, 2013

This is another post in my “Social media and Farmers” series. There’s two main types of dodgy accounts rural people are likely to encounter. One is the group that everyone on twitter has issues with – spammers (trying to sell you something iffy).  The second are animal rights extremists. Today someone queried an account they [...]

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Agricultural Travel to Ireland, Scotland, Wales & England

April 30th, 2013

Anyone like to come with Kerry Moss and I on a Quadrant Agricultural Tour to the British Isles?  We’ll be zig-zagging over farms and memorable sites in Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales, for almost a whole month in August/September 2013. This farm tour includes visits to a range of beef, dairy, sheep and cropping farms [...]

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Rockhampton’s Beef Week

April 29th, 2013

Rockhampton’s Beef Week is next scheduled for 4-9 May 2015.  Today someone asked me why I attend.  Good question! It is the biggest Australian event of it’s kind and has a special buzz about it; helped by the fact that it’s only held every 3 years, thus efficiently concentrating attendance and the money involved. Here’s [...]

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Business operating hours – Future Dates Away-office closures

March 28th, 2013

You receive personal service because this is a one-person show.  Unfortunately this does mean that when I am away, the office is closed.  But this is only a small percentage of each year. The next dates when the office will be closed are: 28th March to 20th April (office reopens 21st April); Trip through Western Qld, [...]

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“Farmers On Film” Augmented Reality Postcards

March 25th, 2013

Staffordshire University ran a student/farmer grant-funded project prior to the 2012 London Olympics to help consumers find out about who had grown their food and how it was produced.  This ‘Farmers on Film’ project was based on special ‘augmented reality’ postcards produced by the University of Derby (Buxton).  Cambridge University is behind a lot of [...]

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Meat eating is good for human health & livestock can be good for the environment

March 22nd, 2013

Here’s a variety of research/studies sources from around the world, and a variety of well thought out personal opinion pieces, that refute misinformation portrayed as truth by those intent on eradicating all meat from the menu:  National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia) 2013 Dietary Guidelines. Page 3: “Most Australians need more….lean meats and [...]

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The Vegetarian Myth, by Lierre Keith

March 19th, 2013

Lierre Keith was a vegan for twenty years, suffered severe health problems then started researching.  She wrote a book about what she discovered, called “The Vegetarian Myth”. I haven’t read Lierre Keith’s book (only found out about it today) but this television interview is very interesting.  Lierre explains how being vegan “becomes who you are” [...]

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