There’s a great source of useful rural management stories and interesting information on the ‘Bestprac’ website. Bestprac is supported by AWI (Australian Wool Innovation) and specialises in the promotion of best practice management of arid rangelands, helping cattle producers as well as sheepmeat/wool producers located in more sparsely settled areas (i.e. lower rainfall farming regions) hear first hand stories from [...]
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January 24th, 2012Vegetarianism chosen for moral reasons
December 21st, 2011An objective, analytical discussion on the choice of vegetarianism for moral reasons, was written by Michael Martin of Boston University in 1976. It is publicly available today on the internet as it is on the American ‘Reason Papers’ website. Michael Martin’s article is titled ‘A Critique of Moral Vegetarianism’ and it runs to 43 pages including footnotes/references. I haven’t [...]
The Conversation – excellent, thought provoking discussion of issues relating to the environment & agriculture
December 19th, 2011The internet is full of forums and soapboxes and there’s a lot of chaff hiding the grains of wheat. Just discovered an excellent website called ‘The Conversation’. In what way are ‘The Conversation’ articles and ensuing discussions, different to the multitude of other online material? What makes The Conversation special? The content on The Conversation is [...]
Keeping up with the Joneses of Coolibah final episode
December 15th, 2011After last week’s episode of Keeping up with the Joneses, full of end of year bullcatching, cane toad racing, croc egg collecting and Christmas preparations, it was great to see baby Jack Jones, the newest arrival in the Jones family. The story of Cristina Joneses pregnancy has reminded me of how different it is to have [...]
Farm blogs – personal stories from the bush
November 23rd, 2011There are now quite a few Australian farming blogs. Many are entertaining accounts of daily domestic issues, which highlight the lifestyle and economic differences between living in towns and living in the bush. These blogs are interesting and very useful in regard to helping non-rural residents understand what it’s like to live in the bush. There are also [...]
Foreign ownership of rural land is restricted or even prohibited, in many other countries
November 9th, 2011Xavier Duff has included some interesting facts in a Weekly Times article on foreign investment. He mentions that foreign ownership of rural land is regulated in many other countries. Other countries, presumably most of them, require that all rural land owned by foreigners is registered with the federal government (eg USA). Some countries restrict the amount of land that can [...]
Lyn White, Animals Australia campaigner, Australian of the Year finalist
November 9th, 2011The Weekly Times are running a poll on whether Lyn White should be Australian of the Year. Lyn White is the Communications Director for the animal rights extremist organisation, Animals Australia, and Lyn was instrumental in providing footage to the 4-Corners programme that resulted in the live export ban. Doubts have since been cast about the reliability [...]
Cargill
November 8th, 2011David Whitford (with Doris Burke) has written a comprehensive article on a famously private company, Cargill, titled ‘Cargill: Inside the quiet giant that rules the food business’. The article was written for Fortune and appears on the CNN Money website, and is well worth a read by anyone interested in food security, quality and affordability [...]
Our quarantine breach punishments are a sad joke
November 1st, 2011A Peruvian bloke found guilty of smuggling an Andean saddle-backed tamarin monkey and a yellow-footed tortoise into Australia in July last year, just received a $6,000 fine. It’s also mentioned that he aspires to be a doctor and is in his second year of a medical degree. Well he can’t be blind and deaf and has a reasonable education, so [...]
Foreign ownership of Australian land and water
October 4th, 2011There has been quite a bit written about recently published figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing the percentage of overseas ownership of Australian land. Many writers have conveniently interpreted the figures to mean Australians are a paranoid, parochial lot – unreasonably concerned with mythically increasing overseas ownership. There is virtually no objective analysis and in-depth discussion of [...]
