While 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 […]
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The ‘Farmers Arms’ poem and ‘God Speed the Plough’
August 31st, 2010Pastoral Company Websites & cattle station jobs
June 10th, 2010Pastoral Company websites – why do they exist and why do so many companies not have a website?
Australian Bush Poetry
June 9th, 2010A New South Wales customer rang today and told me what a caning they’d had over the last ten years or so, and that today they were drafting up sheep to send them off on agistment. To many false starts, too many times plants have germinated and not received the follow-up rain required to ensure […]
Starting Work on Australian cattle stations
June 2nd, 2010What do new employees need to take and need to know when starting work on a cattle station? Jumbuck pastoral has a useful list of information for new cattle and sheep station employees
Have a gallop in Cobb & Co Coach at Longreach, Queensland
June 1st, 2010Cobb & Co. was the Australian equivalent of Wells Fargo, the horsedrawn stagecoach company made famous worldwide many decades later, via a myriad of American western films. Australia’s most famous coach business was created in Victoria in 1853 by Freeman Cobb and three other Americans who had migrated to Australia. Cobb & Co commenced services […]
MacDonald Downs – Creative Outback Cattle Station marketing with new social media
May 19th, 2010In some circles, the popular stereotype of rural residents is of straw-chewing half wits, at least half a century behind the times. Whereas in reality, in rural and remote Australia there is actually a faster uptake and far greater use of the latest technology – at least, the practical, directly useful and durable bits (not […]
FOOD,INC film – let’s hope the vegetarian barrow-pushers don’t overshadow the important message
May 10th, 2010The film (movie) Food,Inc was produced in the U.S.A. and released in 2009, and is about to be released in Australia (next week – 20th May). Food,Inc. is especially relevant in the U.S.A. – the home of rubbish takeaway foodchains and an obesity epidemic (though not to suggest that we’re all Olive Oils here in […]
Wrotham Park Lodge dismantled & moved to NT
April 28th, 2010Wrotham Park Lodge closed and the buildings packed up and moved to the Northern Territory, after the sale of Wrotham Park station by Great Southern to Consolidated Pastoral Company (CPC).