15 Dec Funding Strategies for Young Sheep Producers
(Article published in Beyond the Bale: to 38,000 Australian Wool growers) Are you a young producer who wants to enter the sheep industry, but feel finance...
26 Nov Off The Beaten Track: Morocco
A Pommy and an Aussie step into Morocco. A hawker asks the Aussie if he wants to buy a silk carpet. “See it does not...
26 Nov Securing Attractive Finance for Farmers
Australian banks have lent in excess of $60,000,000,000 to Australian primary producers. ABARE’s statistics reveal that the interest cost within a farmers business is in...
17 Nov On the Outer Barcoo
“On the Outer Barcoo, where the churches are few And the men of Religion are scanty On a road never crossed, ‘cept by folk that are lost One...
07 Nov Water as a Commodity
Water as a Commodity By Charlotte Thomson Murrumbidgee Irrigation farmer, Dean Salvestro, talks about water licenses and the impact they have had on his business. The buying up...
07 Nov RBA Sets the Runway
Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision At its meeting on the 3rd November, the Board decided to leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.0 per...
22 Oct Crystal Balling the Yield Curve
What you need to know about the yield curve. Discussion around the BBQ follows a protocol. Sporting highlights, weekend foolishness, business anecdotes then eventually on a...
11 Oct The lure of high altitude mountaineering
The perception in the public arena is that high altitude mountaineering is egocentric on many levels. To conquer a mountain is to conquer Mother Nature. ...
11 Oct Life on the Hay Plains and some Economic talk
Life on the Hay Plains: Rowan & Sarah Houston By Charlotte Thomson Recently, I talked to Rowan Houston of “Budgewah,” 20km’s from Hay in NSW. In the...
24 Sep Do urban communities care about Australian agriculture?
There’s a general feeling of indignation when Australian farmers talk of the lack of care urban areas have in regards to Australian farming. This talk...