Want to find out what it’s like living on a farm? Read the blogs.

November 29th, 2009

Stumbled upon an excellent blog today, called ‘Bush Belle’ written by a woman who lives on a sheep property in NSW. The links to other blogs written by people living on the land led to a whole chain of farm life-related blog recommendations in Australia and elsewhere. Such as ‘Raising Country kids’ (USA) and ‘Smiling […]

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Mailing Christmas presents overseas and to remote areas of Australia

November 25th, 2009

I have nearly run out of the advance copies of the new book ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’; so anyone who is thinking of ordering one to be mailed to an address outside Australia should order ASAP to ensure delivery before Christmas. Normally it’s only 7-14 days by airmail to most places around the world, […]

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Alan Hayes – Pastoral Assets Management Pty Limited

November 24th, 2009

Alan C Hayes retired from the position of CEO of Macquarie Bank’s Paraway Pastoral Company in 2008 and took up the role of Head of Property Strategy for the Macquarie Pastoral Fund. Alan moved on from Macquarie mid-2009 and now his agribusiness management company which he has owned since 1996, Pastoral Assets Management Pty Limited, […]

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Troy Dann’s ‘My Outback TV’ online

November 24th, 2009

Troy Dann’s ‘My Outback TV’ website is online now, and at long last the complete ‘Outback Adventure’ TV series is available, on a set of 6 DVDs. The website includes a kid’s club and classified ad section (buy, sell & employment) and plenty of typical action pics. This is a major project Troy Dann has […]

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Tackling the fairyland claims of extremist environmentalists

November 24th, 2009

Ian Mott takes Jennifer Marohasy to task regarding her sweeping claims of cattle damaging the environment on her blog. Have a read and a think about what they both have to say. Jennifer is a classic example of someone who is absolutely determined to push a very specific barrow, despite whatever evidence may exist to […]

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Global Warming – Kevin look out for a volcanic eruption

November 19th, 2009

Kevin is entertaining, isn’t he? ‘Record high temperatures in southern Australia are evidence of global warming’. Right-o Kevin. Up here we’ve had what must be record cool temperatures for the last couple of months. Today I have been able to wear a t-shirt with short sleeves, and I can’t ever remember being able to do […]

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New book ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’ – advance copies arrived today

November 11th, 2009

Advance copies of the new book ‘Life as an Australian Horseman’ arrived today. As there is a limited number available at present, these advance copies can only be ordered by phone or fax by people wanting copies mailed direct to overseas addresses (except for our close neighbours, New Zealand) – in order to facilitate pre-Christmas […]

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Plants that poison horses

November 11th, 2009

There are a number of native plants that can poison horses in remote areas. Horses born and bred in the area are less likely to have problems with poisonous plants than animals that are new, presumably because old hands are more likely to know what to steer clear of (those that scoffed into it didn’t […]

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Barnaby Joyce’s Emissions Trading Scheme Petition

November 9th, 2009

Barnaby Joyce has an online petition for people to sign, re. the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It literally only takes a few seconds to sign it. Please let everyone know who you think may be interested, because otherwise we’ll have yet another massively expensive turkey foisted on the poor old wage slaves & small business […]

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Australian Wool & Lamb Production

November 6th, 2009

Riverina Merino sheep

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