After much trial and terror I’ve made a few videos and finally have the first uploaded onto YouTube. Sarah Gayton is the driving force behind the UK’s “Farmers On Film” project and she has been prodding us to get busy. When our Quadrant farm tour group meets Sarah in England in September I must have […]
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North Queensland Farmer’s Market – Graham Phillips interview
July 21st, 2013The Vegetarian Myth, by Lierre Keith
March 19th, 2013Lierre Keith was a vegan for twenty years, suffered severe health problems then started researching. She wrote a book about what she discovered, called “The Vegetarian Myth”. I haven’t read Lierre Keith’s book (only found out about it today) but this television interview is very interesting. Lierre explains how being vegan “becomes who you are” […]
Monocultures vs mixed farming (cropping plus livestock)
March 6th, 2013A well written quote appeared in yesterday’s Townsville Bulletin Newspaper ‘Youth in Print’ section: “Monoculture is virtually the opposite of biodiversity. Monocultures occur where a single species is grown – usually for commercial purposes – such as sugar cane or pine forests. Soil decline with subsequent commercial yield reduction is associated with monocultural systems and […]
Meat Free Monday Propaganda
December 29th, 2012Do you know who is associated with the latest push to ‘reduce’ Australian meat eating – ‘Do Something’/ Foodwise ‘Meat Free Mondays’? No? The funny thing is I doubt the high-profile Australians supporting it really do either. Or if they do know it’s Animals Australia who are driving the campaign, they’re blind to the dark […]
Farmer & grazier advertising industry stereotypes
November 21st, 2012The Weekly Times newspaper is running a Poll gauging opinion on whether the latest dairy farmer bogan-stereotype Devondale ads should be ditched. Unfortunately over the years farmers of all kinds have been portrayed by the Australian advertising industry as straw-chewing hicksvilleans. It’s invariably a reflection of the lack of education (on the practical front), intelligence […]
The Dark side of the Mining Industry – and Kevin Foley
August 15th, 2012Mining – in particular the proposed expansion of South Australia’s Olympic Uranium Mine, turning it into the world’s largest mine – is something all Australians should sit up, take notice of and voice their opinion on. Guest interviewer Ian Henschke, on ABC radio Adelaide, interviewed Paul Cleary, author of ‘Mine-field‘ – the ‘dark side of […]
Foreign investment in Australian agricultural land & food production companies
August 6th, 2012Trade Minister Craig Emerson says the increase in foreign ownership of Australian farm land has been negligible. ‘Barely 6%’ is foreign owned and there has been ‘little change in 25 years’. How about Craig trots out the precise figures, so we can draw our own conclusions? Or do his figures only include land sales that […]
Townsville Biosecurity Lab – scrapped
July 26th, 2012The risk of catastrophic quarantine breaches in northern Australia is far greater than ever before. This is directly due to increasing numbers of illegal arrivals by boat (not all of whom call for Navy Taxis) and the steady depopulation of Cape York Peninsula (pastoral families leaving due to increasing areas of National Parks and indigenous-owned […]
Sustainable fishing of tuna & other fish species
July 11th, 2012It has always puzzled me that there’s a substantial group in society persistently accusing farmers of environmental vandalism while virtually ignoring what is involved in providing the seafood they’re eating (a number of whom will be self described ‘vegetarians’; but that’s another discussion). A farmer sinks money into buying land, machinery, livestock and undertaking capital […]