‘If you buy cheap meat, when it boils you can smell what you have saved.’ Arab Proverb ‘Don’t look for speed in a cheap horse, be content if it neighs.’ Nigerian proverb ‘The wolf can always be hired very cheap as a shepherd.’ Russian Proverb The best and oldest pearls of wisdom are rural in […]
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August 15th, 2008Find a Farmer a Wife
August 6th, 2008We just had to watch ‘Find a Farmer a Wife’ on tv. Curiosity got the better of me, it just sounded so appalling. I hope all the blokes who end up with a live-in arrangement as a result of this show, get a pre-nuptial/pre-defacto agreement. Because the odds are that more than one will end […]
People for the Eating of Tasty Animals
August 5th, 2008I don’t know how I missed it for this long, but I only recently stumbled upon P.E.T.A. – People for the Eating of Tasty Animals. There are t-shirts, mugs, keyrings and stickers, etc. Well done Mike Doughney, for standing up for free speech in the face of abusive bullying. Check out his excellent website http://www.mtd.com/tasty/ […]
Australian Brumbies
July 11th, 2008Many stations in remote areas have a brumby mob or two. So long as numbers don’t get out of control, they’re usually left alone, although sometimes they’ll be yarded and some of the best types broken in to work. Station brumbies are descendants of working horses or pensioners that escaped into larger paddocks — most […]
Ron Edwards – artist, writer, craftsman, publisher – etc
February 28th, 2008Born in Victoria in 1930, Ron Edwards passed away on 5 January 2008, after living in Kuranda (far north Queensland) for many years. An extremely talented bloke with an amazing array of talents he put to good use – an accomplished artist, knowledgeable and witty writer, avid collector of folk songs and bushcraft skills (from […]
IFAJ Star Prize for Photography
October 30th, 2007In September 2007 I was awarded the only ‘Highly Commended’ issued in the annual International Federation of Agricultural Journalists ‘Star Prize for Photography’, after the first and second prize winners. The ‘Highly Commended’ image was ‘Danny leads the mob in his chopper’, an aerial photograph of mustering contractor and pilot Danny Hayes, taken on Wave […]
Australian Farming & Grazing Organisations
October 21st, 2007The main national agricultural producers body, the National Farmer’s Federation (NFF), has a good list of state grower organisations. The Country Women’s Association of Australia is Australia’s largest women’s organisation. The website has links to the state CWA organisations such as the Queensland Country Women’s Association. Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA) is also a national body […]
Outback Australia – Climate & Landscape
October 11th, 2007The Australian outback landscape ranges from vast, naturally treeless blacksoil plains growing Flinders and Mitchell grasses (referred to as ‘downs’ country), to rocky hills covered in spinifex, ghostgums and coolamon trees, to dense grey mulga scrub, red sandhill country, lignum and coolabah swampy channel country, to dusty nondescript scrub of bullwaddy, lancewood, gidyea or eucalypts […]
Buying a Cattle Station
October 11th, 2007Almost all the largest cattle stations are owned by companies due to the high amounts of capital required to run them. The biggest have a dozen or more people living and working on them. That’s a lot of housing to provide and maintain and a lot of wages to pay, especially when seasonal conditions or […]