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The Great Cafe Challenge-bridging the urban/rural divide
June 21st, 2012‘LEAF’, Linking the Environment And Farming, England
June 15th, 2012‘LEAF’ is a registered charity in England which promotes public understanding of farming through all-year-round visits to demonstration farms and ‘Open Farm Sunday’; plus competitions, surveys etc; and promotion of ‘environmentally responsible farming’ via technical field days for farmers, with approved produce sporting the Leaf logo. On LEAF’S ‘ Open Farm Sunday’ website the latest […]
Queensland Election – the reasons why
March 26th, 2012If Australia doesn’t get a send-us-broke carbon tax due to a Federal ALP rethink, then NSW, Vic, ACT, Tas, SA, WA & NT business owners & employees & households & investors can thank Queensland. Odd that the Qld Labor party put the defeat down largely to the ‘poor explanation’ regarding the privatisation of publicly owned assets, […]
Rural Women Speaking Out
February 6th, 2012Stumbled upon a very interesting blog piece by ABC journalist Flint Duxfield titled ‘Women are farmers too, so why don’t we hear them more?’ Flint describes the all-too-common occurrence of ringing a farm, speaking to the wife who is clearly knowledgeable but when asked about the possibility of an interview – the wife defers to the […]
Farm blogs – personal stories from the bush
February 3rd, 2012There are now quite a few Australian farming blogs – and there are several different kinds. There are those that are entertaining and informative accounts of daily domestic issues, written by women, which highlight the lifestyle and financial management differences between living in towns and living in the bush. These blogs are interesting and very useful in regard to […]
The Conversation – excellent, thought provoking discussion of issues relating to the environment & agriculture
December 19th, 2011The internet is full of forums and soapboxes and there’s a lot of chaff hiding the grains of wheat. Just discovered an excellent website called ‘The Conversation’. In what way are ‘The Conversation’ articles and ensuing discussions, different to the multitude of other online material? What makes The Conversation special? The content on The Conversation is […]
Foreign ownership of rural land is restricted or even prohibited, in many other countries
November 9th, 2011Xavier Duff has included some interesting facts in a Weekly Times article on foreign investment. He mentions that foreign ownership of rural land is regulated in many other countries. Other countries, presumably most of them, require that all rural land owned by foreigners is registered with the federal government (eg USA). Some countries restrict the amount of land that can […]
Cargill
November 8th, 2011David Whitford (with Doris Burke) has written a comprehensive article on a famously private company, Cargill, titled ‘Cargill: Inside the quiet giant that rules the food business’. The article was written for Fortune and appears on the CNN Money website, and is well worth a read by anyone interested in food security, quality and affordability […]
Our quarantine breach punishments are a sad joke
November 1st, 2011A Peruvian bloke found guilty of smuggling an Andean saddle-backed tamarin monkey and a yellow-footed tortoise into Australia in July last year, just received a $6,000 fine. It’s also mentioned that he aspires to be a doctor and is in his second year of a medical degree. Well he can’t be blind and deaf and has a reasonable education, so […]
Australian Women’s Weekly and Meat & Livestock Australia photo competition
October 24th, 2011The Australian Women’s Weekly Magazine (AWW) and Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) are running a brand new photography competition titled ‘Champions of the Land’. Details are included on page 214 in the November 2011 issue of The Australian’s Women’s Weekly Summary of entry details: Entry in the ‘Champions of the Land’ photo competition is open from 26 […]