Bralca in Molong | Local business
Bralca
Locality: Molong
Phone: +61 428 668 706
Address: 2493 Mitchell Highway 2866 Molong, NSW, Australia
Website: http://www.bralca.com/
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22.01.2022 Dubbo Sheep Show RRHC wins award RRHC win Australian Wood Industry award recognising teams for educational outcomes being achieved, fantastic effort by o...ur students and Mrs Ford for providing these opportunities for our students. Richmond River's Agriculture classes prepared our seven wethers for the Rabobank School Wether Challenge in Dubbo again this year. All of the wethers for the competition were sourced from one line of sheep from Egelabra Merino Stud and were picked up from Dubbo earlier this year. Approximately 30 schools from across NSW, made up 60 show teams of approximately 200 students who presented 200 wethers in the challenge this year. There were many activities for the students to be involved in throughout the days of competition including parading, shearing, condition scoring, fat scanning, junior judging, wool classing, etc. We were fortunate this year to receive a lesson around junior judging for sheep from an industry expert and be able to watch other Merino judging events that were taking place. Students also had the opportunity to speak to many Merino breeders and industry representatives from sheep feed, equipment and chemicals companies throughout the challenge. Our students have come home with the new feed ration that we are going to try next year. Overall Richmond River has greatly improved our results from last year with one of our teams being selected to 'stay on the mat'. This means that they were judged to be one of the best teams in our section of the competition. Our students were commended for doing such a fine job in preparing the wethers in a Northern Rivers environment to such a high standard. On our way home we stayed overnight at UNE Agriculture. We visited their research feedlot and the animal science facilities. Thank you to Sally Sterlitz for organising this. I would like to thank our junior show team who travelled to Dubbo with me for the way that they behaved, presented themselves and represented our school throughout the trip. Congratulations to all of you. I would also like to also thank Ben Watts from Bralca for organising this event for schools to compete in and Egelabra Merino Stud, Warren for providing all of the sheep given to schools for the duration of this competition. The drought is devastating in these communities and the generosity, encouragement and support shown to our students throughout this challenge was overwhelming. Sally Ford | HT TAS See more
21.01.2022 Day 5 of the program at Hawkesbury. 20 participants have enjoyed a week of industry tech and innovations
20.01.2022 Have you seen our recent youtube video? Check out our livestock scanning crates! https://youtu.be/zbIOCyauGAw
20.01.2022 Drone mapping workshop day 1. Ivanhoe Weather - Hot Season - Dry Dinner - Meat and veggies
19.01.2022 Workshop 2 - Hatfield Weather - Hot and windy People - great Bed tonight- Swag
19.01.2022 Well done to the Dubbo National Ram Sale Committee and Ben Watts for running another successful National schools Wether Challenge delivery day today. 200 studen...ts attended from schools all over NSW. Workshops were ran by Courtney Lloyd, Tom Tourle, Cam Munro, Brad Wilson, Dave Mahilraj and Greg Sawyer. Topics covered were sheep Nutrition, sheep Husbandry, Careers in the rural industry, Wool appraisal and sheep selection exercises were ran by Ben Watts and Matthew Coddington. There were 350 Egelabra wethers delivered to around 70 schools where students will care for the wethers for the next 5 months until Dubbo National Ram Sale in August See more
18.01.2022 Great to see Austrade backing the agtech space https://www.theland.com.au//taking-australian-agtech-to-/
17.01.2022 This is what the future of agriculture needs to look like. Young, passionate and able to consider the business of agriculture through multiple lenses.
16.01.2022 A great day mapping out of Bruce’s hanger. Little UAVs in a big hanger #temora
15.01.2022 A chilly day for the end of November in central western NSW
14.01.2022 Ben Watts from Bralca shows the National Poll Dorset Conference at Ridgehaven Poll Dorsets the different types of drones and how they can be used for tasks including crop and pasture mapping, fence and water point observation and even checking lambing ewes #polldorset19
11.01.2022 Amazing footage of the livestock in the Riverina
10.01.2022 Exploring the future at the Hitachi social innovation forum with Owen, Derrick and the team
06.01.2022 The team enjoying their day on farm in central NSW inspecting stock and learning more about testing procedures for wool and animal production at Roseville Park. The in-depth veterinary and genetic knowledge of the Indian team made for discussions long into the night
05.01.2022 One of Australia’s most progressive Merino breeding operations will throw open its doors to young people at a training and mentoring weekend in February. The 50...,000 hectare Wyvern Station at Carrathool, in the Riverina, will host workshops and mentoring sessions on February 9-10 in a joint initiative with the Peter Westblade Scholarship committee. Topics to be covered over the weekend will include sheep selection, stockmanship, agribusiness skills, sheep and wool marketing, new agricultural technologies and professional development. Steeped in history, Wyvern is an iconic wool producing property with state of the art facilities including a new wool shed, yards and shearer’s quarters. Peter Westblade Scholarship chairman Craig Wilson said a select group of young sheep and wool handlers would be encouraged to purse the 2019 scholarship. This will provide a fantastic location for the young people to visit and gain invaluable experience and knowledge over a weekend on one of Australia’s most progressive Merino breeding operations,’’ Mr Wilson said. The scholarship promotes the practical skills associated with the sheep and wool industry and aims to deliver hands-on experience to young people. It provides education and mentoring opportunities for people aged 18 to 30 years wanting a career in the Australia sheep and wool industry over a 12 month period.’’ Applications and nominations for the scholarship and the Wyvern weekend close at 5pm on December 21. For further information contact scholarship executive officer Georgie McGuiness on 0437 473 414. See more
02.01.2022 Students learning about scanning at the dubbo schools wether challenge
01.01.2022 Congratulations to Greg Sawyer as lead researcher and lead author on this first of its kind paper. We have had industry from all over the world reaching out to make contact with Greg to provide advice on sheep production in challenging climates. This work underpins new steps forward. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article
01.01.2022 Team Bralca welcoming the Indian sheep and wool development team
01.01.2022 A great week crop mapping on the Liverpool plains with Jonathon tuckfield
01.01.2022 Day 3 workshops west of the Anirbranch. Hot and windy before the front arrived
