Unfortunately, quite often I am contacted by people desperately looking for rural experience for a teenager. I say unfortunately, because very often these are parents (mostly mothers) who are very worried about a son whose formal education is not going well. Sometimes I am contacted by other relatives (eg a grandparent) and sometimes by someone [...]
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September 2nd, 2010Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate – Now’s our chance to fix it
August 31st, 2010It has been surprising that the Remote Area Tax Rebate (most recently referred to as the ‘Zone Tax Offset’) doesn’t appear to have been mentioned in the independent’s discussion list – in particular Bob Katter’s list. The single best achievement these rural independents could make would be raising the Remote Area Zone Tax Rebate/Zone Tax Offset up from the rates which don’t [...]
The ‘Farmers Arms’ poem and ‘God Speed the Plough’
August 31st, 2010While poking around an antique shop near Romsey (Vic) I spotted a large pottery cup and saucer produced by Adams (England) that I just had to buy. It has a very old poem on it that I think says it all, for farmers, albeit in olde worlde language & punctuation and no mention of the [...]
Stanbroke Pastoral Company suing Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd
August 15th, 2010Stanbroke Pastoral Company has lodged documents with the Brisbane Supreme Court to sue Xstrata’s Ernest Henry Mining Pty Ltd (EHM) for just under $2 million ($1,989,520) to cover environmental damage caused by negligence, plus interest and costs. The Ernest Henry mine is located 38km north of Cloncurry (North West Queensland) and it is within the boundaries of the Stanbroke-owned [...]
The U.S. cattle industry and Texas A & M University
August 7th, 2010Interesting article on Beef producer’s views of the state of the U.S. cattle industry in Agrilife News. Agrilife News is produced by Texas A & M University- a university specialising in agricultural studies and research. There are two campuses – one in Galveston (Texas) and the other in Qatar. Given that Texas is the U.S. state most [...]
Macquarie Pastoral Fund’s Paraway Pastoral Company buys more blue chip agricultural holdings
July 22nd, 2010Argentinean John Kahlbetzer’s Twynam Agricultural Group has sold 3 NSW properties to Macquarie Pastoral Fund-owned Paraway Pastoral Company. Riverina properties Mungadal (east of Hay), Gundaline Pastoral Company [Cooinbill] (near Carrathool) and Buttabone, northwest of Warren in central NSW. This has increased Paraway Pastoral Company’s livestock capacity to 200,000 sheep and 200,000 cattle.
Australian Plague Locusts
July 17th, 2010I’ve seen grasshoppers of all kinds and lots of locusts (and have learnt that picking up big spur throated locusts is not wise), but can’t remember ever seeing locusts swarming. That is until we drove home the other day, and went through locust swarms east and west of Julia Creek. Most of them flew a [...]
The Australian Wool Industry
July 17th, 2010I’m often asked why I don’t take photographs of sheep. It’s a good question. I grew up on a wheat-sheep place and have over the years taken a lot of photographs of sheep and particularly love the wool industry. But there’s two main reasons why to date, I’ve spent a lot of time concentrating on [...]
Richard Aedy’s ABC Life Matters, A vegetarian love-in
June 18th, 2010Anyone feel like reading a couple of hundred posts by a pack of white middle-class professional holier-than-though people convinced they are morally superior because they choose to not eat meat; engaging in a session of mutual back-scratching? If so, check out the vegetarian diatribe on ABC Life Matters with Presenter Richard Aedy. I was going to call [...]
S. Kidman & Co’s Quinyambie Station for sale
June 16th, 2010S Kidman & Co Ltd (S.K.) has put Quinyambie station on the market. At 12,119 square kilometres Quinyambie station is one of the largest cattle stations in southern Australia. It starts 160km north west of Broken Hill (over the border in South Australia); running up into the Strzelecki Desert. The average rainfall is only 200mm (about 8″) and [...]
