#MoreToExplore map approvers have been having fun with the lives of the people of Penshurst so let's celebrate Day 9 of their State Gvt approved Deer Hunting on Crown Land maps.

Are you having fun too Steve Dimopoulos MP ?

grace pettigrew Lisette Mill - Agvocate Sounds great except:
We don’t have enough capacity (people) to do this. There’s currently more than 900 vacancies in the meat processing sector
Our customers want live animals for a variety of reasons- not just cultural.
Cold chain & storage
Lack of in home refrigeration /1

'I have not once in over a decade come across any person from another exporting country providing on the ground animal support for their trade partners.'

Byron O'Keefe absolutely a must read.

#KeepTheSheep needs the backing of everyone.

On my way home I stopped here.
To take this photo to show you how the wind last night revealed it.

My neighbor of few words pulled up & stopped too, his face a question.
'Bird'?
'Crocodile'
I swear he reared back a bit 🤣
'Where?!'
'There !'
😊

Ceasing live sheep exports will shrink & change the sheep flock, leading to 55,000 less bales of #wool being produced a year and the complete loss of that income. The transition package does nothing about this. #keepthesheep sign here bit.ly/4aJnjp0

Our PhD candidate Pat Menchon is looking for northern Australian beef farmers to take our survey to understand preferences in the use of genetic tools.

She'll be using this info to co-design an extension program to support herd improvements

Please share!
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No sheep, no shearers. No jobs, no kids at small schools, no money spent in small towns, which all leads to declining services which leads to the death of regional economies.
We stand with those in the West.
#morethansheep
#keepthesheep

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700 people surveyed in WA
vs
a national representative survey of more than 4,000 Australians.

An organisation reliant on donations to fund their activism
vs
a statutory RDC body that is bound by legislation to act with integrity & transparency.

WATT a turnout! You’ve turned us into activists, Senator Murray Watt, and this is just the beginning! 🇦🇺🐑🛳️ #keepthesheep #LiveExport The Livestock Collective

'Camera traps facing a floating platform and cage traps mounted on floating platforms performed better than those deployed on land.
Downward-facing camera traps detected rakali three times more often than did forward-facing cameras.'

Mind your tone Lisette. 🤪
OK.
'Gorse at Colac Station - reported Oct 2023. When's it getting treated?'
'Our records show it was treated in December'
'So it would be dead by now?'
'Yes.'
'It's not dead. 80% alive. Time to audit this contractor. Want the photos?'.

Language is just a marvel.
Today's gem :

'A fit of the yaps'

With rainfall farmers start turning to next shelterbelt & paddock tree project.

One tree 15m2 of shelter & shade !
'Snow in Summer'
Paperbark-Melaleuca linariifolia

In any v windy place let the branches go to the ground to protect the multiple trunk from splitting.

We'd been rooted without them.
Give them your support wherever you travel.

In small town Au it's community opshops that do the heavy lifting .
Funding, human contact & dignity for elderly, poor, ill & unemployed, & stopping reusable goods going to landfill or roadsides.

I guarantee there's an owl roosting in here.
Probably a Barn Owl.

Garvoc, Victoria.