Off to Boort this week, presenting to an interested group. This might help me get ready for #LambEx next month.

Haven’t posted for a while as had a break from everything due to suffering a injury last year and being rather depressed Anyway on the road to recovery and had a chat with OH today who said I may be eligible for the bike fitness test due to my injury. Anyone ever done this one?

Friday night TV

Today’s entertainment, installing another adult day care facility in the farming range. Many a great family time spent together working sheep and goats.

G'day gang I'm on the lookout for an old chaser bin for filling cattle feeders. Not worried about size and can do a bit of work to get operational. Mainly looking for cheap Cheers

Nice arvo for shifting sheep. Pretty easy when there is lots of feed about.

I’m certainly no billionaire, can’t help feeling wealthy with a coupla mutton’s and a bucket of yabbies in the coolroom. 👍💲😊

The cheapest, most effective wildfire crew in California has four legs and eats the problem. Clearing flammable brush off a steep slope by hand is brutal, slow, expensive work. A herd of goats is none of those things. Hand clearance: - Around 28,000 dollars an acre - People with tools on dangerous slopes - Cuttings that then have to be hauled away A herd of goats: - Roughly 500 to 1,000 dollars an acre - Climbs slopes no crew wants to touch - Eats the brush to a firebreak and fertilises the ground on the way through - Reaches branches several feet up - Visibly thrilled to be at work Calling the goat a quaint throwback has it backwards. On this job the goat is the superior technology by a factor of about fifty, and it runs on the very scrub everyone else is paying to remove.

Well, if a Pelican… why not an echidna… 💪👏🇦🇺

Word must’ve made it to the bovine world that today was a public holiday

Went and did a short pasture walk while waiting for a mate to turn up. I counted 23 different plants in the small area of the pics, about 20-30m2

Just pick up a Kinder Gym, just part of the Farmings “Adult daycare” range. Something to keep the cows amused.

Yesterday’s FWC wage decision was a masterclass in the political magician's trick. While media, business and unions argued over the "4.75% pay rise" smokescreen, the legal wage floor for a school-leaver was quietly forced up to an experienced operator level, by phasing out the 2 entry-level awards that were put there to help get inexperienced youth into their first job. With businesses now forced to pay the exact same hourly rate for zero experience versus 5 years of experience, with rising unemployment and pressure on businesses, they will choose experience every single time. Youth unemployment is already up from 8.5% to 11% under Labor. Add in underemployment, and one in four of our kids is now struggling to find work. Denying school leavers their start in a worsening labour market is creating a pathway for long term youth unemployment, and a high risk for soul destroying lifetime welfare dependency. By pulling away the bottom 2 rungs of the ladder, this tone-deaf government isn't protecting young workers—they are sentencing many of them to welfare queues before they've even picked up a tool. Quite the opposite of generational equity isn't it?

Looking for the opportunity of a lifetime? Come & join the team at @Livestock_SA. (I’ve heard the Chair is really great & awesome to work with 😜)

Lots of impressive vegetation coming up on our ponded area. Banks combined with controlled grazing can really kick start the land, makes the most of rainfall

Pics of the photographer. Spent most of yesterday with a photographer putting together a short reel for #LambEx as I’m on a panel there. Of course it was foggy and dull all day

If you go into hospital as an alcoholic, they don't put a bottle of vodka on your bedside table and titrate the dose. They remove the alcohol. If you go into hospital as a heroin addict, they don't hand you a syringe with the meal tray. They remove the heroin. If you go into hospital as a smoker, they don't wheel you outside every two hours for a cigarette break. They remove the cigarettes. If you go into hospital as a type 2 diabetic, they bring you white toast, cornflakes, fruit juice, a jam sachet, and a sweetened yoghurt. Then inject insulin to manage the blood sugar response. Then write in your notes that your diabetes is "poorly controlled." Every other addiction is treated by removing the substance. The one driven by carbohydrate is treated by serving the substance and medicating the response. Have a think about why.

Thoughts are with Neale Daniher’s family & being a family of 11 there are many. My SIL is a cousin so I feel connected, as I have done while he’s publicly battled the beast. What I reckon I learnt how lucky we are, grab life with both hands and his parting words - Play On