I’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 [...]
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July 17th, 2010Another mustering helicopter crash, near Kowanyama
June 2nd, 2010On Sunday (30th May ) a mustering chopper crashed on Rutland Plains Station (beside the indigenous community of Kowanyama, Gulf of Carpentaria). Apparently the tail rotor clipped a tree and the chopper crashed bubble first into the ground. The 30 year old pilot has survived and is in Cairns Base Hospital with facial injuries (broken [...]
ABC Rural Blog
May 28th, 2010Just discovered the ABC has an excellent rural blog, primarily written by ABC rural reporter Libby Price (Elizabeth Farren-Price). Interesting, factual, to-the-point and witty.
Beef importation from countries with BSE (‘Mad Cow’ disease)
February 26th, 2010Who voted for a Government so utterly stupid, that they have decided to relax Food Safety rules and allow the importation of beef from countries that have had BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy – otherwise known as ‘mad cow disease’)? No Australians have been inflicted with the BSE-related variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) and no Australian [...]
‘Outback Helicopters’ – a new aerial mustering & charter company
December 22nd, 2009A new Northern Territory aerial mustering & charter company called ‘Outback Helicopters’ has been formed by business partners Keith Phelps, Paul Blore and Doug McBean.
The Seventh Day Adventist church have been funding a barrow push for animal rights extremists
May 1st, 2009As long as I can remember, there’s been Sanitarium Weetbix in our cupboard for breakfast. Well not any more – Vita Brits only from now on. Nestle may not be 100% Australian owned, but at least they’re not pushing vegetarian propaganda onto the general public. And guess what, Vita Brits are usually cheaper anyway. A [...]
Australian agriculture’s bad image
April 24th, 2009Quadrant is one of the few genuinely independent magazines in Australia today. Most of our newspapers and magazines are filled with the same old shallow, repetitive, syndicated tripe, ‘advertorials’ and sensationalist scaremongering that isn’t backed up with verifiable facts. Quadrant writers are individual thinkers who are not afraid to disagree with and discuss popular views, [...]
Victorian Producers Co-operative Company Limited (VPC)
April 12th, 2009Farmers are raised with a dislike of middlemen. The blokes between the grower and the end user are viewed as parasites who take few risks and expend relatively little effort, yet pocket a lot of profit. Farmer’s Co-ops are the result. This 2003 paper on VPC by John Gill (ex Chairman of the Co-operative Federation [...]
Farmers are uneducated peasants who destroy the landscape and cause global warming
April 3rd, 2009In today’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper Paul Myers, freelance journalist and former Rural Press General Manager, former editor of The Bulletin and R.M. William’s Outback Magazine, has written an excellent piece on the woeful state of the general public’s image of Australian farmers and graziers. Paul rightly points out that the world only grows enough [...]
