As is apparently the case in all but the very worst drought years, it rained at Agquip last week – in fact there was also a bit of hail on the last day. But like most agricultural field days, rain has a beneficial affect on visitation and sales. Only an absolute deluge like that received at Agquip 2010, causes running headaches […]
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Amazing Race Australia 2011 & 2012
August 2nd, 2011Much as they irritated me at times (deliberately setting out to use good looks [short shorts etc] to get ahead on so many occasions); on merit (tenacity, ability etc), the girls (Sam and Renae) should have won ‘Amazing Race Australia’ ahead of the blokes; especially considering the much higher number of tasks/challenges that favoured blokes […]
AACo has sold Meteor Downs Station to Xstrata, presumably to be run by Colinta Holdings
July 23rd, 2011AACo has sold the central Queensland cattle station ‘Meteor Downs’ to the Swiss mining company, Xstrata. Meteor Downs is 17,000 ha 40km SE of Springsure (between Emerald & Roma), and it was purchased in 1990 to run the AACo’s Brahman and Santa Gertrudis studs. In recent years it has been running Wagyu cattle, and growing forage crops […]
Australia 2012 Year of the Farmer
July 7th, 2011I must be living under a rock because until yesterday I didn’t know that 2012 is the Year of the Farmer. Sponsored by Elders, the Year of the Farmer board is impressive. Included are Deb Bain (Wool & sheep meat producer and Farm Day instigator, Vic), Geoff Bell (NSW), Bill Belotti (agronomist, NSW), Philip Bruem […]
Australia’s live export ban lifted
July 6th, 2011At last some sense has prevailed and Agricultural minister Joe Ludwig announced this evening that the live export ban has been lifted. Cattle that are completely traceable will be allowed to be exported to ‘independently audited’ abattoir facilities. However many regional small businesses will have lost huge amounts of money, many cattle that a month […]
Australians Supporting Beef Farmers (ASBF) – brand new website now online
June 14th, 2011The ‘Australians Supporting Beef Farmers’ (ASBF) brand new website is online today. The aim of the website is to provide objective industry facts and a united voice for Australian cattle farmers, especially those in the north who are directly or indirectly involved in the live export trade, as well as people indirectly involved (from truck drivers and mustering chopper […]
Amazing Race Australia – who is most likely to win, surfers or ‘farmers’?
June 14th, 2011I’ve never watched a reality TV series before so don’t know what sort of person usually wins these contests. Because there’s two people from outback Australia involved in the first series of Amazing Race Australia and I know many of the Warriner family, I had to watch. And barring unforeseen bad luck or events completely out of their […]
The silver lining on the live export ban cloud
June 10th, 2011Good things do come out of bad, and I’m actually starting to think that while the live export dramas seemed like the straw that would break the camel’s back, it has in fact worked to unite primary producers across northern Australia like no issue ever has before. Apart from getting rid of cruel behaviour by a handful […]
A personal response regarding the 4 Corners story on live exports
June 10th, 2011A letter from Jean Robbins, which basically sums up the personal affect of the 4 Corners story on rural residents: After the 4 Corners story aired last week I was horrified, shocked, numb. One part of me was struggling to cope with the images that I had seen. The other part of me very quickly […]
Depopulation of the bush
June 6th, 2011Australian cities and coastal towns have been growing at a rate of knots. Some towns in mining areas are growing, but most are still diminishing despite the plethora of well-paid local employment, due to fly-in fly-out mining workforce arrangements. It has been sad to see the reduction in population in the vast majority of rural […]