Clearview Heifers: Mustering, Drafting and Trucking
We were been blessed with patchy storm rain at the beginning of the year. So we have been able to fatten cattle. But not knowing if we will get a wet season this year, since some are fat, and a bonus for us, prices are high, our management plan to cull coloured heifers were reasons to muster […]
Galahs on Wires
Some find our multiple gathering of galahs or cockies annoying. They don’t bother me and if they do strip trees, these trees seem to grow back. Yes I understand they can be very destructive in the wrong environment but they don’t bother me or where I live. There were a few (have a good look […]
Family Weekend at Gold Coast
Two weekends ago my family gathered together in Townsville to spend a few days together, including the weekend down the Gold Coast. But first Rick, Claire and I had to get to Townsville, where we would meet up with Thomas and Madeline. We each had to take a vehicle (that is another story) Back in the […]
Jake’s Australia Day Award
You know when you have a moment when you know that someone that has gone before us would have a huge smile on their face and bursting with pride? Well that moment happened for me today when Jake Britton received his well deserved Young Citizen of the Year Award. Jake’s Great Great Grandmother, affectionately known as […]
More Nephology by an Agriculturalist
Yesterday morning and again this morning at breakfast, about 5am, the moon looked like this.. A distinct orange ring blended with other colours, as someone suggested “like marble.” Yesterday’s sunrise started off with a pink tinge on the clouds before earth revolved to see the sun poking up amongst the clouds. 6.13am The humidity yesterday […]
Nephologist Agriculturalist
Yesterday I went on a bore run with #BossMan It is just a natural thing for us to look at the skies. I love clouds, main reason: I’m usually hoping rain will come out of them. But I also like photographing them for their amazing colours, shapes and if sky is visible amongst the cloud, it […]
Junior meets Charlie
Today Claire brought her new poddy, Charlie, over to Goodwood. Last time Junior was any where near cattle he was very lost, howled his little heart out, that was some time ago. Bruno has to be tied up around Claire poddies cause he is too friendly. I thought it was wonderful to watch Junior become […]
Lucknow Muster “view from my office window”
I would like to dedicate this blog to my good friend Jeanette Maguire. A while back she told me the office, in a city, she worked in that day had no windows. It was like hitting the pause button on me, my mind was trying to comprehend such a thing and not coping, all that well, […]
Guest Blogger Paul Cox
As my second Guest Blogger, I have posted the full text of an open letter to Dave Hughes by Paul Cox. The letter is about Dave Hughes support of Animals Australia and the damage they have and continue to inflict on our livestock industries. I agree with the sentiments expressed in this open letter. I would […]
Guest Blogger Russ Patterson
In a first for me, I have invited Russ Patterson to be my guest blogger. There is not a word in his post I disagree with. Too often people try to reinvent the wheel, forgetting that for the most part, that similar things have been tried before. In my view, that is certainly the case here and I […]