Mulga said:
Hello to every one on ranchers from Aus. I have been reading for some time and am addicted according to my wife!
How do you get such a good selling deal Soapweed. When we sell through
a sale yard its generally 5 percent commision plus yard fees etc up to 1pc
not including freight or insurance
Is it because you sell large numbers per pen. We usually sell 20-22 per pen [ $500 per head]
While I am being brave. Why do you spead straw before putting up a new fence. [ you may have answered before and I missed it ]
Regards mulga
Welcome to the addictive "club" of Ranchers.Net. Good to hear from you in Australia. When I was a kid in grade school, I sent in to the Weekly Reader to get a pen pal from Australia. Those people at that paper weren't very smart even back then (bunch of Liberals :shock: :? :wink:

). In their infinite wisdom, they lined me up with a pen pal from "Austria" (almost spelled the same :wink: ). His name was Franz Zelsacher, but since he wasn't the cowboy type, we didn't correspond for very long. :wink:
Back to your question about why we spread straw (or bull rushes out of our swamps) on the ground we fenced, it is because it was very sandy ground. These Sandhills are quite fragile. If the ground is disturbed, it can blow and erode in the wind. Along this new fence, we leveled the area with a tractor loader bucket. We put the rushes down to prevent the sand from blowing. Even though we spread rushes in this particular case, it is not normal procedure.
Don't be bashful. Keep on posting, and send pictures of your area. We all like pictures. Have a g'day, mate. :wink: