katrina
Well-known member
Has anyone heard from Tully or Australian cattle rancher??? They are having bad fires around Alice Springs..... I've been thinking about them and wondering how things are going.......
Tully said:Things are quite dusty here in the land of Oz.& a bit smokey as well in a few places. The situation with fires is a result of bad management by national parks . The "greenies" run this country so they have locked catttle out of the high country & stopped the controlled burning of in winter that used to reduce the fuel load .......the result is fires that no one can control.
On a lighter note .
I was programming some wagyu cows for AI on Sunday, having never used CIDR's before I was all keyed up to get it right.Had the girls in the yards by7am (to beat the heat) was all ready ......forgot the goo,the lubricant for the CIDR insertion...darn......went into town ,no vet open so off to the supermarket to search for the human equivelant there were no male shop assistants around & I could not find it .so I was forced to ask a young lady stacking shelves(about 24-25) when she finaly realised what I meant she said "oh that stuff"I said "no its for using on cows" her eyes got bigger & she took a step backwards........"its for dipping the end of my thingy in ..its about a foot long' at which point she turned around & walked quickly away leaving me looking & feeling like some old perv . I looked to my left & there it was ..grab ,run ,pay,run.......flee.
Iam glad there are 3 supermarkets in town as one of them I might not go to for a while.
Tully said:Ned Kelly was what they called a bushranger back in the 1800's.
Translation: thief, there was little honour amongst law breakers & law keepers in those days & it's fair to say he was pushed into a life of crime but in the washup he was still just a thief so the romantics can have there movie scripts & their cult heroes but crime is crime.You have your Jesse James ,Bonnie & Clyde...etc we had Ned & a few more like him,lets face it the world loves a rogue.I wonder if he would have been as popular if he didn't wear that tin suit? nothing like a gimic .
The drought here left us with a tiny winter crop , I have never seen grain prices climb so fast, Barley went from $140/ton to $320ton in about 6 weeks , sure did shake up the feedlot industry . Has a price rise like that ever happened in the US ?
regards
Tully
Oz