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Morestone Contracting
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25.01.2022 This is Jeff. Jeff likes to work on the farm until well after dark. Jeff allows his wife to ‘stalk’ him via the Find My Friends app. He also has a snake bite k...it on his motorbike and the Emergency+ app installed on his phone. Jeff is doing his part to #PlantASeedForSafety (and obviously saves his own life, by listening to his wife). Jeff is a VERY smart man. Be like Jeff. #SaveALifeListenToYourWife
24.01.2022 For the first time, we'll have a specialist on hand at FarmFest to talk to you about your survey gear needs. There will also be great specials on Leica Auto level & laser level kits. Come and visit us at site PAV18.
24.01.2022 "Forty-two years (for a lease) is not a long time if you are buying a pastoral property worth $2 million to $10m, especially when we have had 20 of the driest y...ears in the past 100." Marla pastoralist Gillian Fennell is keen to see in the review of the Pastoral act that pastoralists are given more long-term security with their leases.
22.01.2022 TO BE OFFERED BLACKALL SALE THURSDAY 12th OF SEPTEMBER BILLA KALINA PASTORAL - WITHDRAWN FROM SALE On offer 200 of their Shorthorn and Shorthorn X breeding fe...males and 70 weaner steers Cows are Bayview, Belmore, Bundaleer bloodlines and range in age from heifers to 7 years These are large framed and very well bred Cattle were sent on agistment back at the start of May and have been running with Shorthorn Bulls since that time. These are genuine breeders and were due to be brought home to breed but due to the ongoing dry seasonal conditions they will be sold Any enquires please contact Cameron Paul 0428 847 186 Photos will be available on Tuesday the 10/09 Cattle will be trucked from Windorah . Contact Landmark Port Augusta Cameron Paul 0428 847186 A/c Sandover Past Co The Patrick Barcaldine Approx. 50/70 Santa & Santa x heifers with Calves at foot 300 Santa & Santa x Heifers Running with Black Bulls All in fresh to forward condition To be Preg Tested & 40/50 Young Santa cows with calves at foot by Black & Santa Bulls 70 Young Santa Cows Running with Black Bulls All in fresh to forward condition To be Preg tested Please call Landmark Alice Springs- Steve Gaff 0417 157708 OR Landmark Blackall Boyd 0417 707637 or Lachlan 0437 533622
20.01.2022 Mrs Morestone has been doing some writing.
20.01.2022 I’ve teamed up with my mates at George the Farmer for a GIVEAWAY to celebrate our farming community in Australia, along with the release of my book! Have you e...ver googled ‘What does a farmer look like’? I can assure you right now that farmers are not all grey haired bearded men in checked flannelette and bib & brace overalls holding a pitchfork and chewing straw! They’re often young, vibrant farmers just like George and Ruby Farmer. We're offering two lucky followers a ripper prize pack including a copy of the recently released ‘What Does A Farmer Look Like?’ in addition to two beaut’ kids picture story books from the George the Farmer collection. Make sure you have a squiz at these easy steps, to enter! 1. Follow George the Farmer and What Does A Farmer Look Like? on Facebook 2. Like this post 3. Know someone who would be inspired by the stories of Aussie Farmers? Let them know in the comments! The winners will be announced on July 5. This giveaway is not affiliated in any way with Facebook.
20.01.2022 RURAL LADIES! . Instead of us* telling YOU what we think #FarmSafetyWeek is all about: . 1) Why don’t you tell us?... . 2) What kind of info would you actually find useful? . Sincerely, . *everyone who has two-fifths-of-five-parts to do with farming. . #PlantASeedForSafety #SaveALifeListenToYourWife See more
17.01.2022 Want to know what the Livestock SA team have been up to in the past month? Read our June newsletter to find out more!
17.01.2022 A new pastoral sector course to be offered through TAFE SA in 2019 will provide station employers with an opportunity to upskill their staff. Isolated Children’...s Parent’s Association (ICPA - SA), together with Livestock SA and employers have worked with TAFE SA to develop the program that will be beneficial for both existing and new workers to the Station industry. The 12-15 month program will be delivered in blocks of three-five days, either on-station or at TAFE SA campuses in Port Augusta, Roxby Downs or Regency Park. Skills to be taught include shearing, sheep and cattle handling, welding, vehicle and motorbike servicing, fencing, operation of graders and tractors and boning and sharpening knives. For more information about the course, contact Shanon Pillion at TAFE SA Port Augusta campus on 8648 9980, at [email protected] or visit www.tafesa.edu.au/agriculture.
16.01.2022 Rocklands Station north of Camooweal is embracing new ways of doing things, such as smaller paddocks and wet season spelling, to regenerate native pastures and improve the productivity of the country.
15.01.2022 Mrs Morestone is the newest member of Cattle Council Australia. We’re so proud. (She’s excited too we promise)
15.01.2022 Hug a tree - it helps hide the hypocrisy One thing I enjoy is being lectured to by urban media on how farmers should manage their land and environment. This i...s why I really enjoyed reading this insightful piece from the Age: https://www.theage.com.au//forgiving-land-clearers-because The author is your typical modern day urban environmental weekend warrior. She was late getting her article in because she was out planting trees. She has planted 70 this year! The reality is that the net gain of those trees would be wiped out by one of her commutes to work and wouldn’t even cover the food miles for the imported coffee beans at her favourite coffee shop. But don’t let facts get in the way of a good hack job. After planting a few trees, she felt qualified to stray from her specialisation as an architecture critic to share with us her extensive knowledge of vegetation management and the benefits of trees she found in a google search. I hate to play one-upmanship but my family manages somewhere around 10 million trees on our freehold country plus another 10 million in our national park. We didn’t plant any of them - they just grow naturally - in the millions. I grew up in hard wood eucalyptus forests and have both a love and respect for our native vegetation. That smell of a forest after rain, the swirl of the leaves in the breeze, the thrill of bird song before a storm, the smell of freshly cut narrow leaf iron bark saw dust or a spotted gum log as straight as a barrel. I rarely get the time to hug my trees unless I’ve been wiped off my horse by one of them chasing cattle. But I understand that to maintain a healthy forest you have to manage it. Whether by fire, axe or chain it needs to be selectively cared for to ensure it’s not choked out by woody weeds, lantana and noxious weeds. You can’t just lock it up other wise a bushfire will eventually come along and destroy the lot. Like most urban environmentalists, the article starts off by painting all farmers as environmental vandals who are roaming around the bush on bulldozers chanting Kill more trees, cut them off at the knees, kill more trees. I’m not offended by that statement - it just demonstrates the ignorance of someone who has no idea what they are talking about. In case any farmer had forgot, she then informs us we are still in a drought. Actually the worse drought in history. Recorded history that is. She further alludes that farmers have brought drought upon themselves - presumably by clearing all of the trees. The author then likens reducing draconian vegetation restrictions for farmers during drought to giving a fat kid chocolate. Charming. She then disgracefully uses the story of the farmer who shot a vegetation management officer investigating a tree clearing offence as her example that farmers are all greedy murdering vandals. Don’t mention that suicide rates in the bush are double than in the cities and in some areas heavily hit by drought is 500% higher than the national average. The author advises us that NSW vegetation management laws aren’t worth the paper they are written on and allowing farmers to self assess how and what they can clear on their own land is like a developer being allowed to do their own building certifications. Not quite. Actually, not even close. I’m not sure if she has actually read the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. I have and it is hardly a puff piece. NSW vegetation laws are overly officious, technically confusing and inconsistent with extensive enforcement powers and heavy penalties. Ask the farmer from Garah who stick raked previously cultivated wheat paddocks and was fined $350,000 for clearing 500 hectares of native vegetation regrowth about how soft NSW vegetation laws are. The author informs us that 20,000 hectares of vegetation was cleared in NSW between 2016 and 2017. That’s a lot of inner city town houses. NSW is 80 million hectares in size. 22 million hectares is classified as forest - 20% of the total forested area of Australia. The annual clearing rate is around 0.001% of the vegetation in the state. At this rate it will all be cleared in 1,100 years. Sydney covers 1.2 million hectares. They don’t have to worry about vegetation management laws - the remaining vegetation are in parks or in pot plants. It’s easy to moralise about vegetation management when it is someones problem and livelihood. It’s easy to point the finger when someone else is picking up the tab. It’s easy to have an opinion when the cost of that opinion is nil. That accordingly is also its value. The author then recites a 5 point sermon on why trees are great and should be stolen from farmers and then forced to maintain them - for free. The first benefit of trees is shade and keeping the ground cool. I’ve been in a eucalyptus forest in summer and the heat would peel the shirt off your back. But fair point. The second one is they deepen the soil and increase carbon content. The author obviously hasn’t seen cleared dense forest. The soils are very poor because the trees extract the majority of the nutrients. Trees also store the majority of their carbon above the ground in their wood. While forests are sinks when they are growing they actually become carbon sources as they age, die and decompose. With a warming climate, studies in California show that as result of increased fire and drought die back that forests are actually emitting more carbon than they store. It’s actually been shown that well managed grass lands (which stores its carbon in the soil) is more reliable and resistant to climate change and absorbs more carbon than completely forested land. The author also states that trees increase water holding capacity of the soil where it is more evaporation resistant. Trees need and use a lot of water which is why they have large and deep roots. They actually lower water tables rather than increase soil water holding capacity. While vegetation is important part of a healthy ecosystem - if they unnaturally thicken and become too dense they can actually reduce soil moisture and rainfall run off. Studies in Serra Nevada showed that by thinning dense forest it saved billions of litres of water. In Perth, dam recharge efficiently fell by 50% over 20 years through thickening vegetation in upstream catchments. Thirdly, trees provide habitat for birds, bees, insects, bats and koalas. You can’t argue about this but the majority of habitat loss is through urban expansion and development. Unlike housing developments, vegetation management on farms still retains shade lines, riparian zones and also open trees. It’s why you don’t see many koalas or kangaroos in Maroubra. They have been replaced with Audi’s and Landrovers. The fourth one is - water vapour. The author tells us that water vapour is an important greenhouse gas and as the air warms it creates more vapour which generates a deadly feedback loop. According to the author, trees storing water underground is exponentially important to drought reduction and climate survival. But the problem is trees transpire a lot of water (on average a fully grown eucalyptus tree can lose 1000 litres per day) and if water vapour is a deadly feedback loop one would assume we would want less vapour to reduce the climate warming. Fifthly, trees make it rain. Although the author admits the science is a bit dodgy, the theme is that because trees transpire a lot of water they create low pressure systems which create rain. If trees create rain, someone must have forgot to tell places like Charleville and Quilpie that are surrounded by 12 million hectares of trees and haven’t picked up a drop in 8 years. Maybe the author needs to head out to Eulo with her bucket and spade and start planting a few trees to help out. Unfortunately, she’ll need an axe to cut her way through the scrub to find a spot to plant them. The author then makes the startling conclusion that because she has just done a google search on the benefits of trees that Australian agriculture is unsustainable, the soil is infertile and farmers just clear trees because they don’t like ploughing around them. She then advocates for a return of traditional farming techniques which worked for 60,000 years and would sustain us into the next century. No mention that those farming techniques only supported around 500,000 people which were largely nomadic due to food shortages during drought periods. They also hunted all of Australia’s mega fauna to extinction and changed the entire landscape of the Australian continent by burning it every time it wasn’t raining. I am also not sure how yams, ants and witchetty grubs go with a Pinot noir. Im not sure how Kangaroo, emu, crocodile, turtle, dugong and goanna go in a Thai salad. I am not knocking Bush Tucker but to suggest we could simply go back to the dream time might sound nice but it is devoid of reality. There is no doubt that there have been mistakes in the past which have lead to environmental damage but to suggest all farming is unsustainable is compete nonsense. Australian farmers are some of the best in the world, enjoy less than 1% government income support, on one of the driest continents in the world and have to feed people like the author who prefers to kick salt in their eyes than recognise the incredible work they do. Armageddon stories about vegetation management are based on emotion and not fact. Australia has 145 million hectares of native forest, covering 22% of its land mass and is 7th in the world in forest and habitat protection. Not bad for a country that is 40% desert and another 30% that is considered as arid due to low rainfall. Rather than the world’s vegetation disappearing it’s actually increasing - a 15% increase in area in the last 30 years. In Queensland, vegetation coverage has increased by 2 million hectares at the same time farmers are allegedly rampaging around trying to knock it all over. Australian farmers manage 60% of Australia’s land mass yet make up less than 1% of the population. While we are out in the scrub growing your food, fighting bushfires and hoping for rain - this allows the other 99% of the population the time to find ways to spit in our face. I wonder if they would be so judgemental if they were forced to skip a few feeds. A hungry stomach usually changes someone’s opinion pretty quickly. The author makes the common mistake of lambasting farmers for wanting to manage the vegetation on their properties without offering to help out or pay for it. Rural and regional communities have had billions of dollars worth of development rights stripped away from them so our urban populace can feel good about saving the environment without actually having to put their hand in their own pocket. I wonder if the author actually had to pay a farmer for the vegetation on their land rather than just take it for free whether she would be so eager to pontificate about the virtues of vegetation. I doubt it.
13.01.2022 Primary Industries Minister Tim Whetstone says the current Pastoral Act is "outdated" and is conducting a review into how the legislation could be improved. Pastoralists tell us what would you like to see change?
13.01.2022 This is one of the most worthy fundraising drives I've seen. The Brook family do indeed already invest a lot of money in maintaining the beautiful historic buil...dings on their stations. As the stone woolshed on Cordillo is a unique building of national significance, and it is open to the public, it is right that Australians help fund the preservation of it. Please help share this great cause.
12.01.2022 A Livestock SA meeting will be held for pastoral members on September 11, from 11am, at Port Augusta. The meeting will be followed by a Pastoral Board Meeting at 4pm, which will also include dinner. Please register here: http://bit.ly/2lUtx2F
11.01.2022 Orroroo's Geoff Power, who has been one of the fiercest advocates in the war against wild dogs, has an important new role.
08.01.2022 A great privilege to be interviewed.
07.01.2022 The management of the SA Sheep and Cattle Industry Funds will transition from the current advisory groups to Livestock SA, improving the transparency of where producers' levy money is spent. What do you think?
05.01.2022 Ladies, is your husband notorious for doing these ones? All those in favour of safety goggles when grinding, say ‘EYE’. #PlantASeedForSafety #Sa...veALifeListenToYourWife . . . #RuralWoman #RegionsMatter #AgLikeALady #GraziHer #WorkHealthAndSafety #Health #Safety #Wellbeing #WHS #Agriculture #Farming #Fishing #Forestry #AusAg #ProductionAg #AgChatOz #InvisFarmer #WomenInAg #AgriFuturesAU #Westpac #SafeWorkSA #WIARSA #RWA2018 See more
04.01.2022 An opportunity has opened to have your say on the future management of the State's pastoral rangelands in a review of the Pastoral Act. The review has come abo...ut to enable the Pastoral Board to operate under modern legislation and to gain the greatest value from the rangelands, while maintaining the environmental and productive condition of the land for future generations. You can have your say at https://yoursay.sa.gov.au/decisio/pastoral-rangelands/about The review will close for comment at 5pm on Friday 13 September.
03.01.2022 Friendly, caring and loyal, Cathie is an MBA graduate, a farmer, a mother and a teacher. Check out Cathie Bammann's story at: https://bit.ly/2JsL10V... #PlantASeedForSafety #SaveALifeListenToYourWife . . . #RuralWoman #WomenInAgriculture #WomenInFishing #LadiesOnTheLand #LadiesFromTheLandAUS #RuralWomen #FarmingFamilies #WomenOnTheLand #RuralLife #GraziHer #AusAg #ProductionAg #AgChatOz #InvisFarmer #WomenInAg #RWA2018
