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G'day folks,this is a post I put up on our FB page and I thought it was relevant for this group also...... The post is prompted by the injuries received by one of our members. It has been my experience that rams come in one of two types, those who dominate the farmer or those who accept that...

G'day folks,I thought i would start a new thread for this topic. So after nearly 50 years of having livestock we "invested" in a proper stet of yards for drafting,drenching and loading of livestock.Jenny,daughter(Nicole) and myself over the last two days have modified the original design and...

MEG and ME: Our journey begins. Meg is a Kelpie mix, in spite of the fact she was bred from our “straight bred” kelpie dogs. She shows a recessive gene from her past of Border Collie, but she is her mother’s daughter and would run through the “fires of hell” if i were to ask her too. She is...

G'day folks,I don't see any benefit for me as a member as yet,maybe it's to allow a lot more advertising on the edges into the future?..T.O.R

Recently I coined the phrase,” Make the livestock fit the landscape, not the landscape fit the livestock”. I used the phrase in an article or two and it seems to have “struck a cord” with a number of people going by the responses I have received. We have had our current farm for 20 + years...

G'day folks,i posted this topic elsewhere and received some interesting reactions,so i thought you may enjoy.It was shared as far away as Argentina,and the USA amongst others. Initially there was some "negative" responses from cattle people who i think failed to understand it was about my farm...

G'day,I posted this elsewhere but thought you may enjoy and comment. CARBON CAPTURE: “Is there a difference in the Carbon that comes from an English Oak, American Cottonwood and an Australian Eucalypt?” For many decades now in Australia the focus has been on the planting of trees to reduce...

G’day it is generally acknowledged that “grass” is the most efficient form of raising livestock. KNOW what you have. KNOW what you need. KNOW how to manage its production. In the main pastures are made up of species that are Native or Exotic. In both cases they fall into one of three...

Dorpers (and other Hair Breeds) are “smarter than Merinos, but not as smart as Goats”. The above is the “stand out” lesson after our first year raising, breeding and selling these breeds. Last Oct 12 months ago we made the decision to sell after almost 20 years of breeding and selection our...

G'day folks,our main problem is what is know as Wild Dogs.When the First Peoples came from up North they brought with then their "camp dogs" and over 000's of years they evolved into what was the Modern Dingo.With the arrival of the white man and in the ensuring 200 years or so the wild dingo...

G'day folks, so as to provide some context to the "update of the creek".I will begin to tell the story of the restoration.But you will need to be"patient ",as the amount of time required to put this together is considerable.I will start as soon as time permits,you are welcome to ask questions at...

G’day and welcome, I seem to remember somewhere in the past there was a thread on “The Creek “and its repair. The fact is that it is 18 months since we had any worthwhile rain on the place, but in the last month we have had about an inch, which has done nothing for our stock water reserves, but...

G'day , I thought I would "test" the subject before posting it to other forums.I am interested in your response to the ideas expressed. Is there a desire or need to revive the U.S. Sheep Industry? Were you to pose this question to an Aussie sheep-meat exporter I suspect the answer would be...

SHEEPMEAT PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA IS “CHANGING”, BUT DO THE INDUSTRY LEADERS (including the MLA) UNDERSTAND THE CHANGES AND WHY THEY ARE OCCURING? The past record of industry bodies in advocating “change” is terrible. In the recent past industry leaders were calling on producers to produce...

G'day , this is an inspirational story of what can be achieved when farmers think "outside the box". You do not need a scale of 200,000 acs to make a difference you just have to examine what you do and how you can achieve a better outcome for the environment with changes to how you think about...

FORTRESS AMERICA: There was a time when the U.S imported “nothing” it was quite capable of generating all of the things it needed .So could the President’s latest tariffs on steel and aluminum just be a” test to see what happens”, because if you think about it “what has the global economy done...

G'day, there are times when a short video clip can illustrate a point. there has been a lot of interest in the Kelpie posts I have made ,but at this time the reader must follow a link to the Facebook page to see it.Perhaps Nifty will consider in some circumstances allowing a short clip to be...

Last week we attended one such event and it was in fact quite interesting all of the speakers were very knowledgeable and experienced in their field .They presented their subjects clearly although the focus was quite narrow. In the days following I submitted some comment to the organizers, but...

G'day, I hope you find this program interesting.Australia exported over 1 million goats in meat form last year.Please note the size of the "string" of Australian Kelpies they use to control the mob as they move them to the yards,remembering these are "wild goats" in rough scrub country. Hope...

Most of the publicity for Hair breeds is driven by the stud industry as usual .We are in the process transiting to Dorpers with a mix of Black head and Whitehead ,while retaining a few of our English Suffolk’s to infuse the “better “ eating qualities’ of the British Shortwools into a “composite...