@roserobin12 wrote:
What Lind says should be implemented, we keep hearing stories of drought and no feed.
The chap should have sold off part of his herd before it got that bad.
This bit from the story seems silly to me,
With no pasture left on the ground at Werrina Station, south of Charleville, Brock and Katrina Hindmarch began bulldozing mulga scrub last year to feed their cattle.
Mr Hindmarch says they eventually cleared the entire property of the trees and were forced to purchase another block of land with vast mulga reserves.
Why spend money on buying more property, would have been better spent of buying feed, once the mulga is gone then what?
We can't keep expecting the govt of the day to rescue everyone and everything.
It's the give a man a fish and he eats for a day, and teach a man how to fish and he eats forever philosophy.
Paddocks need a rest and livestock rotated, so when they deplete the feed in one, it then needs a rest to rejuvenate, so you move the livestock to another pasture.
I daresay that was the motivation here, an attempt to increase his long term feed lot. If he had have spent that money on food, it would be gone and no money to buy more - more pasture, generates and sustains income.
Also, the other thing that then becomes seemingly obvious is to cull the number of livestock you run on your property, but this too causes income problems as to be viable, a property needs a certain amount of livestock - less, and they go broke anyway.
To a farmer, whilst I am sure they l;ove animals dearly, their livestock is no different to an apple. It is a means for income, just an object, a saleable commodity - no emotions attached to them.
Some people can go their whole lives and never really live for a single minute.
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