‘Wool’ you look at this!
Here’s a Christmas gift with a difference!
For our viewing pleasure, the Woodsdale-Levendale Museum committee present to us with the “Bare Bellies, Butts & All” calendar!
It costs $15.00 each (plus $5.00 if you want it posted). The funds raised from calendar sales go towards the construction of a Shearing Interprutation Center and Mens Shed at Woodsdale.
$1.00 from every calendar sold goes to the Royal Hobart Hospital Burns and Surgical Specialties Unit.
To place your orders e-mail Sue Atkinson, the Museum Manager.
P.S. I’ll shout the first person a calendar that tells me what is different with this picture…If you think you know, drop me a line.
Rural Diary - November 2008
Meet and Greet a Wiltshire Horn Sheep
15 November
Terra Lorna Farm, 1182 Mole Creek Road, Needles, Tasmania
Contact Terry or Lorraine Corcoran on (03) 6367 6237
Bridgewater Sale
17 November
Bridgewater Saleyards, Bridgewater, Tasmania
Contact your local Roberts Livestock Agent
Penrise – Punchgrove Poll Dorset and White Suffolk Sale
18 November
“Penrise, Campania, Tasmania
Contact your livestock agent
Low Stress Stockhandling School at Fonthill
After the Low Stress Stockhandling School held at “Malahide” earlier this year I’m continually asked “when is the next one?”
Click here to find out more about Low Stress Stockhandling
I am organising this event through my business, Rural Connections on a not for profit basis. Why you may ask?!?!? Because I’ve participated in this training the past and believe that everyone should do it – it’s fantastic…it will change your paradigms!
(and so we all can think about something else other than drought)
Registrations close at 5pm on the 31st of November.
Please feel free to forward this to your family and friends.
Dohne Sheep Information Day
The owner/manager of Delmore Dohnes, Ross Jacobson, says that their doing ability has been very impressive through some very tough seasons.
He is keen to increase his flock numbers and given the Dohnes performance he is enthusiastic to also share his knowledge.
Ross is holding an Information Day and Ram Sale to be held on his Forcett property on the 29th of this month. RSVP’s are appreciated for catering purposes.
Download the flyer which includes directions.
2009 Landfall Angus Roundup
Entries will close soon for the next Roundup, which is being held at the Canberra Exhibition Park from 15th to 18th January 2009.
Hurry and get your entry in for this exciting event before 28th November 2008. The Landfall Angus Youth National Roundup is open to young people aged between 8 and 25 years of age, and will provide a wealth of information to cattle enthusiasts.
The program contains interactive sessions on reproduction, halter making, diseases and a meat tasting panel. Other sessions include DNA technologies, herd health and animal marketing. Also a Mock Bull Auction and competitions for Junior Judging and Parading will be held.
Other activities including Barnyard Olympics and Calf Capers promise lots of fun. On Saturday 17th January a Special Dinner Dance at Thoroughbred Park Racecourse will provide a great night of entertainment.
For more information visit their website: www.angusyouth.org or contact:
Angus Youth Coordinator: Jim Klarner, 02 6733 4608
2009 Roundup Coordinator: Josee Sergi, 0439 413 321.
Rural Diary - October 2008
Ranelagh Sale
8 October
Ranelagh Saleyards, Ranelagh
Contact your local Roberts livestock agent
Clearing Sale A/c Skelfield PTY LTD & TN Pickett
9 October
147 Picketts Road, Gawler
Contact Neville Peebles 0408 144 736
Campdraft
11 October
Powranna
Contact Lynne (03) 6248 9231 or Barry (03) 6265 1398
2008 Young Farmer of the Year
Winners of the Young Farmer Competition: Back: Tim Dobson (3rd), Adam Chugg (4th), Alan Prewer (6th), Front: Jamie Burns (2nd), Sarah Gatenby (1st), and Georgina Milkingstone (5th).
Recently I had the pleasure of judging the Ag Marketing module in the Motors Isuzu Trucks Tasmanian Young Farmer Competition held at Quercus Rural Youth Park (Agfest Site).
There were five Young Farmers selected from the North West, Northern and Southern regions to compete for the Young Farmer title. During the day those fifteen competitors were then tested on ten areas:
Call for Dairy Benchmarking Entries
The TIAR Dairy Centre is seeking participants to provide information for benchmarking their farm performance for the 2007-08 season.
This can be done through entering the Impact ANZ Dairy Business of the Year Award or as a separate exercise for farmers who do not wish to take part in the Award.
In both cases, dairy farmers receive valuable information on the financial and technical performance of their dairy business.
Free place to Hobart’s ABARE Conference
In my last post I mentioned the ABARE Regional Outlook Conference. I attended the one in Lauceston last year and got heaps from it.
It was a wonderful opportuniy to meet some new contacts and access information.
I got so much out of if that I decided that Rural Connections will shout one person to attend the conference in Hobart on the 8th of October at The Old Woolstore.
There are 12 guest speakers on topics ranging from nuffield scholars to climate change- and I must say that it looks very interesting. View the program
Drop us a line – in 50 words or less and tell us why you want to attend the conference for your chance to win.
ABARE Regional Conference
With 12 speakers across four sessions, this is your chance to access the latest commodity data and industry trends for your region at the Hobart Regional Outlook conference on Wednesday 8 October.
Hear from key speakers including:
- ABARE’s Phillip Glyde on the road ahead for commodities
- Tony Pearson, ANZ, with a banker’s perspective on interest rates, and where to from here?
- Rob Goudswaard, ANZ exploring how financial institutions can contribute to sustainable communities
- Nuffield scholar Ronald Thompson, on keeping farmers in agriculture
- Melanie Ford, ABARE with climate change – preparing for carbon trading
- Ian Barnes-Keoghan, Bureau of Meteorology on coping with short and long-term climate change
- Johann Joubert, New Life Industries, discussing hydroponic farming: benefiting the environment
Download the conference program and registration form.
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