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SEPTEMBER 2017 EDITION NO.9

FUTURE OF FARMING

Dalby ag students reach their prime

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Welcome There’s an old saying which goes, "My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer".

Spring is here but it hasn’t brought the rain so things are pretty tough across the region and indeed, most of Queensland.

Now more than ever we need to keep an eye on our neighbour and our mates and check they’re travelling okay.

We need to look after our mental and physical health as much as we look after our stock and soil.

Here’s hoping for rain and plenty of it, very soon.

—Jacinta Cummins

contact us EDITOR Jacinta Cummins DESIGNER Carmen Miller ADVERTISING (CHINCHILLA NEWS) Bobbie Gorring, Phone 07 4672 9930, Email bobbie.gorring@chinchillanews.com.au ADVERTISING (DALBY HERALD) Nicole McDougall, Phone 07 4672 5502, Email nicole.mcdougall@dalbyherald.com.au GENERAL MANAGER Erika Brayshaw, Phone 07 4672 9921, Email erika.brayshaw@chinchillanews.com.au All material published in Western Downs Farmer is subject to copyright provisions. No part of this publication may be reproduced without prior written permission for the publisher.

DISCLAIMER: The information contained within Western Downs Farmer is given in good faith and obtained from sources believed to be accurate. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. The Chinchilla News or Dalby Herald will not be liable for any opinion or advice contained herein.

SCRUBBED UP: Dalby Rural Supplies’ Andrew Johnston presents the Young Achiever Award to Sam Lee. PHOTO: Ange Stirling

Pick of the cotton crop recognised ❝

MORE than 350 people in the cotton industry gathered at the Dalby Showgrounds on Friday night to celebrate the past 12 months.

The Darling Downs Cotton Growers Awards have been running for more than 20 years.

Awards organiser Geoff McIntyre said the evening always proved a hit for farmers as well as their families.

"It went really well, it was a good night and everyone enjoyed themselves," Mr McIntyre said.

"We were busy the whole time, it was quite hectic but great fun."

Not only is the function about recognising people who have had an outstanding 12 months and catching up with old friends, it

"It's good because everyone can share information around with each other, so it's helpful in that sense as well

provides a chance for individuals to network and share knowledge.

"It's good because everyone can share information around with each other, so it's helpful in that sense as well," Mr McIntyre said.

"It's satisfying getting together and

celebrating the season and people who have done well over the past year."

Steve and Jacob Little took out the ANZ Highest Irrigated Yield Award with 14.82b/ha this year, while Scott and Mitchell Seis collected the ANZ Highest Dryland Yield Award.

The Greg McVeigh Memorial Trophy for Outstanding Yield went to Damien Ebbern, while Sam Lee went home with the Dalby Rural Supplies Young Achiever Award and Greg and Maryann Bender took out the Vanderfield Grower of the Year Award.

The Darling Downs Cotton Growers are currently working on a field day to be held at the Benders property.

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Students top of the crop Dalby ag students wow at EKKA JACINTA CUMMINS

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Hayden Todd was brought on as Livestock Manager in 2014 and has established the school’s 80 head Dorper flock based on Bellevue bloodlines as well as starting a Limousin stud.

A former stock agent and current board member on Queensland Ag Shows, Hayden has extensive livestock knowledge and show circuit and breed society connections to share with his students.

"It was definitely an intensive process to get the Dorpers started, but we are now lambing down at 132% which is excellent," he said.

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"Of course, I’ve timed lambing towards the end of spring in early October so kids will be back from holidays to give me a hand!"

The school’s sheep are butchered at Maclagan and then go through the boarding house kitchen to give students and staff the authentic paddock to plate experience.

The school will establish a 23 head feedlot next year to allow students to analyse the data between grain and grassfed beasts.

It’s Daniel Gray from Thargomindah’s third year at DSHS and the Year 11 student said he’s learnt about a much broader range of farming than he would have had he just

stayed at home.

"It’s given me more of an idea about how different people do things and adjust things to their operation," he said.

"I’m also a lot more confident since I got involved with cattle judging.

"Before I would just hang back a bit, but I came seventh for judging at the EKKA so that was a big improvement and I think this confidence will help me for the rest of my life."

Daniel isn’t sure of his plans after school; he can return to his family’s property, but he has his sights set on doing a building apprenticeship after doing classes at DSHS Trade Training Centre.

"I’d love to be able to build my own house and if I end up on a property, it’s a great skill to have."

The 1400 acre aggregation across the Bunya campus and Moola property grows crops like sorghum, oats, barley and chickpeas alongside the livestock program and is the largest operating school farm in Queensland.

The proof will be in the pudding, but according to Anne if awards, increasing enrolments and community support are any indicator, the future is bright.

"By 2020, this could be a school of agri excellence that the school and our whole community can be very proud of."

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studies, but this will be expanded to a Certificate III next year to ensure students are work ready.

This certificate will also guarantee students automatic entry into some agriculture related courses at universities such as James Cook University, the University of New England and the University of Queensland’s Gatton campus.

"We’re starting to get businesses like stock agencies and agronomists wanting to work with us to establish bursaries and work placement," Anne said.

While the Darling Downs is renowned as a cropping region, the program focusses on giving students

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DALBY STATE HIGH SCHOOL (DSHS) is reaping the rewards of six years of hard work expanding its agriculture program with its Dorpers beating commercial operators to win both the champion prime and second place at the EKKA. The three restaurant trade lambs were eight-month-old Dorpers fed on grass which averaged 28.1kg with a fat score of five.

They made $7.40/kg dressed weight and the second placegetters were Dorpers from the same drop which averaged 32kg and sold for $7/kg.

It was DSHS’s first time at the EKKA since the Bunya Campus opened on the former Dalby Agricultural College site in 2011.

But Campus Principal Anne Rathmell says the results are just the start.

"It’s been a long haul given some of the community opposed the closure of the Dalby Ag College fearing there wouldn’t be any place for agriculture inclined students to go, but we are coming into our own," she said.

"It’s more than just doing well at the EKKA, we are drawing students from far North Queensland, out west and Tamworth and even southern New South Wales.

The boarding program currently has 55 students who live on Bunya Campus and are bused into DSHS’s main campus daily for classes, but all agriculture students do their ag classes on the Bunya Campus.

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A driving equine passion Kylie Tuckerman is redefining equine health JACINTA CUMMINS IN 2011, Kylie Tuckerman was a self-confessed career woman on the Sunshine Coast working in Brisbane.

She loved horses, especially her thoroughbred Maurice.

She enjoyed just being around horses,had ridden intermittently from her late teens and loved trail riding, but when Maurice foundered and eventually had to be put down it was the catalyst for Kylie to learn as much as she could about horse health and nutrition.

"My knowledge was pretty limited to a ‘biscuit of lucerne a day and grass’," Kylie admits.

When Maurice became ill, it was a challenge getting him diagnosed correctly.

"It was just by chance that I told the vet he wasn’t shedding out his coat properly which made her think it could be Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID)," Kylie said.

PPID, also known as Cushings Disease, is an endocrine disorder which according to the current research can affect 1 in 5 horses.

Symptoms can include a pot belly appearance, excessive drinking and urination with advanced and obvious symptoms being laminitis and infrequent or no shedding of the coat, however, no one horse is the same so it is important to get a vet involved if PPID is suspected.

With a confirmed diagnosis the vet can medicate and work with a hoof care professional to support the owner with dietary management, hoof care and ongoing education to manage the disease.

Kylie’s experiences with PPID drove her to study equine anatomy, husbandry,

PUTTING HEALTH FIRST: Equine podiotherapist Kylie Tuckerman with 8-year-old Stix on her farm at Moola, near Kaimkillenbun. PHOTO: Jacinta Cummins. health and hoof care.

Her studies introduced her to a new world of science-based holisticmanagement which was influenced by anAmerican vet and equine nutritionist Dr Eleanor Kellon.

This eventually led Kylie to pursue a career in equine hoof care after studying as an equine podiotherapist at the Australian College of Equine Podiotherapy.

An equine podiotherapist, or barefoot trimmer in layman’s terms, maintains the hooves of horses which are barefoot instead of shod.

Kylie notes more and more horse owners are opting to leave their horses barefoot, but she points out it’s not practical for all horses to go barefoot.

"Horses used for example infeedlot work, racing or have pathological feet require

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Kylie also has a keen interest in equinenutrition and endocrine disorders, and educates her clients about the importance of diet, exercise and regular hoof care.

She is passionate about education and wants all horse owners to know about hoof care, nutrition and husbandry.

"Horse owners are becoming more aware of conditions such as Cushings and associated symptoms like laminitis."

Kylie lives and works with her partner ,Jono on their farm a tMoola near Kaimkillenbun and travels from the Western Downs to the Sunshine Coast trimming horses.

She currently owns seven horses with various issues

including PPID, Equine Metabolic Syndrome and founder.

All are managed using Dr Kellon’s protocol of a high forage, mineral balanced diet and medication where appropriate.

Her partner, Jono wasn’t interested in horses, but laughs that he had no choice after meeting Kylie.

"It was only ever meant to be one or two horses and he often jokes that he ‘will have one acre left to drive his tractor back and forth’, but he is very supportive of my passion for horses and feeds/medicates them when I’m away working," she said.

Kylie’s studies inspired her and Jono to trial transitioning their farm from a traditional cereal and forage crop producing operation to a more holistic one incorporating pastures and cover cropping.

This has involved cover cropping, reduction of glyphosate and other chemical use as well as trialling crimping of crops, planting multispecies legumes/cereal and letting self-seeded paddocks grow.

"It does go against the grain to let weeds grow, but they’re still organic matter covering the soil which is important at this time of the transition while some of the paddocks are returned to grasslands which will then eventually be harvested for hay. We control weeds through slashing or chipping," she said.

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NUTRITION IS KEY: This even colouring at the top of this hoof shows the better hoof connection which is achieved through attention to balanced nutrition. PHOTO: Jacinta Cummins.

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"Eventually we would also like to introduce cattle and chickens into cell and/or rotational grazing as part of the big picture by mimicking ecosystems along the philosophies of Ray Achuleta, Dr Christine Jones to name a few.

"We want to strive for a holistic paddock to plate approach with our animals free to roam and minimal use of chemicals, herbicides and pesticides."

Back to horses, Kylie believes owners can prevent or manage health issues and promote general health by feeding their horses appropriately for their discipline and condition along with regular trimming.

"Most of the horses I trim are ridden on weekends, sometimes only once a fortnight and I really enjoy working with them," she said.

"Sometimes people buy horses with good intentions but then life gets busy and so the horses are exercised less, but still fed the same.

"This is where education is the key!"

"Horses need to fuel their bodies with the right amount of good quality forage, whether that’s hay or pasture as well as supplements to make up for anything missing in that feed to meet nutritional needs for breeding, growth and performance.

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QRRRWN finalist shines Lisel Dingley has made her own luck through new business JACINTA CUMMINS CHINCHILLA’S Lisel Dingley is a finalist in the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network (QRRRWN) annual awards which will be announced at the QRRRWN conference on October 20.

In her application, Lisel, who is in the running for the Young Rural Women’s Award, wrote about the challenges she faced after graduating with a degree in environmental science.

She noted the harsh reality is that graduates often need to move to the city to get a job in the industry, and that even then it's often short term and poorly paid.

"I’ve always had a goal of delivering good projects with solid outcomes for the community and the environment, but finding a job locally in Chinchilla was very difficult," Lisel said.

"I wanted to be able to make a difference where I live and be part of the community, so moving to a city and then being on the road all the time to deliver project just didn’t make sense."

So after gaining the required experience in roles away from Chinchilla, Lisel was able to secure a position back home.

This meant she could not only live and work in Chinchilla, but had the ability to pursue her passion for dressage and carriage driving with her horses.

Once again, the positions were short term so after being made redundant twice this year alone, she started her own company, Dynamic Environmental Services.

As with any new venture, there were obstacles and Lisel found herself quite alone, not having access to the networks or mentoring which you take for granted in bigger towns.

She stumbled across QRRRWN on Facebook and joined to meet other women in a similar position to herself.

The common thread connecting them is their passion for their community which is something Lisel understands.

She’s involved with Chinchilla Landcare, was chief steward for the Chinchilla Show’s horse section and has come up with a few novel ways to draw her community together.

"I have a theory that a lot of people come to mining towns like Chinchilla just for the work, but I want to help the community show them that small towns can often do things better than the cities," she explains.

"I had a visitor from overseas staying with me for Easter.

"After we discovered there were no events in Chinchilla over the long weekend, we decided to deliver Easter eggs in a carriage drawn by my pony Patches.

"We ended up delivering eggs around town over three days and people loved it.

"I don’t think you’d get that in the city, it’s

DEDICATED: Lisel Dingley with Koora-lyn Blue Print. PHOTO: Supplied one of those small things which can make big difference.

"Maybe we will help Santa deliver his presents at Christmas time."

Lisel is hoping to meet other women at the QRRRWN awards who can share similar stories with her, and is looking forward to hearing how they help their rural communities thrive.

"I’m really looking forward to talking with other women who understand what it’s like living in the country and being able to trade some advice on what has or hasn’t worked for them and maybe even find a mentor!"

Lisel sees volunteering and leadership as crucial to successful country communities.

"Not many people are stepping up to take on roles as the current volunteer generation retire and we’re running the risk of some of our organisations and events just stopping if young people aren’t prepared to put in the effort," she said.

Leading by example, Lisel spent two years to be certified as a dressage judge by Equestrian Australia so she could give back to the sport which has given so much to her.

"It takes time, it often means you’re going to

twice as many events so you can compete in one and judge at the other one, but it’s what we’ve got to do if we want the sport to continue."

Since she applied for the award Lisel has become the Environment Advisor at the Kogan Creek Power Station but she’s determined to keep working to help her community thrive.

"Things have changed so much since I put the application in, but I guess that’s life, you never know what’s around the corner," she said with a smile.

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Queensland desperate for rainfall Pat Weir MP Member for Condamine The Darling Downs is an area steeped in rich agricultural history.

The fertile soils and temperate climate enable a wide diversity of broad acre and intensively farmed irrigated crops to be grown including horticultural crops.

I am fortunate to be the state member for the electorate of Condamine which lies in the very heart of this area.

This region has a large number of intensively feed animals including cattle, sheep, poultry and pigs, a range of broad acre crops like cotton, sorghum, wheat and chickpeas, and horticultural cropping of lettuce, carrots, broccoli and hydroponically grown figs to name but a few.

The last summer was one to forget with extreme heat and very dry conditions for all summer crops.

There wasn’t a lot of glory for anyone in the farming industry once harvest time came.

Unfortunately the winter crop is shaping up the same way.

There was a large planting of chickpeas across most of the Darling Downs with a good profile of moisture from the rain that fell in March.

Some were deep planted in late May to early June whilst other growers waited for a planting rain.

There were still some plantings in July.

Winter cereals where planted over the same period.

Since then there has been very little rain and variable temperatures.

Extreme frosts have damaged chickpea crops with plant population losses in some fields.

Flowers and pods have been frosted and potential yields are well down.

There are crops that still

haven’t started flowering which doesn’t auger well with hot weather on the way.

The price for both winter pulses and cereals is buoyant however there won’t be many growers who will be able to take advantage of this if rain doesn’t fall in the near future.

The cattle market is still holding up and there is a record number of lot feed animals on the Darling Downs.

If the dry continues cattle in the western area will need to have their feed supplemented by fodder yet again or begin to make their way east to be lot fed.

Rain is desperately needed state wide to get through spring and the impending summer.

My best wishes to everyone in the agricultural industry you are an inspiration to all.

I hope that the climate changes in the very near future and brings with it much needed favourable conditions.

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BE PREPARED: Fire can affect all rural residents and farmers so it’s important to join your brigade and be prepared to turn up when fire hits. PHOTO: Jacinta Cummins:

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Ensuring you are prepared for the impending fire season has never been more important

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IT’S an old, but true message: a lack of fire preparation can cost a life in minutes.

There are some key strategies to help landowners and rural residents stay safe this summer: ■ Preparation is essential to minimising losses in the event of a fire.

■ Think about fire safety and plan for it as you’re working.

■ Be prepared to get in and help.

■ Find out who your fire warden is and join your local

Downfall Creek Fire Warden Mick Hoffmann of "Hillside", Guluguba said it’s all too common to have the same people turn up to the fires with some even sending employees, but that everyone needs to pitch in.

"Whether you’re a farmer or just live on a lifestyle block, it’s important to turn up because it doesn’t matter whether you know the people who own the place or not, one day it could be your own backyard burning," he said.

It is now too dangerous to burn off in many places, but there are a number of other

things farmers can do to prepare their properties.

"It’s reached that point in heat and dryness, that it’s now too late to burn off, but you can slash overgrown areas and if you’ve got things like shuttle tanks, it’s imperative to make sure the tanks are full and that everything is working properly," Mick said.

"There’s not a lot of grass left with the season, but people, especially those next to a road or a highway, should do whatever they can to reduce fuel whether it’s slashing or removing debris."

If an area is really in need of burning off to reduce fuel,

Mick said landholders should contact their local fire warden to see if he or she could arrange a training session and have it held in that particular area so it could be dealt with while helping people gain experience in a controlled environment.

Peak farm body Kondinin Group recommends having a fire safety plan as part of your farm management plan and ensuring all employees are familiar with it from workers having each other’s mobile numbers to the UHF channel for the farm to making sure the tyres on mobile firefighting units have enough air.

It reminds residents that

late evacuation can be a fatal option with the homestead offering better protection from the dangers of radiant heat than the car.

And the Rural Fire Service reminds you: ■ It is essential your property number is easy to see from the road and that all residents, including children, and employees know it in case they need to call for help in an emergency.

■ Make sure the property entrance is four by four metres so a fire truck can enter easily and that there is room to turn it around.

■ If you do have a fire

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■ There are no permits issued for burning along government roads, but if a fire escapes onto one then the fire warden or first officer has the authority to extend or continue the burn to ensure it is safe.

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Pop Up Country set to delight JACINTA CUMMINS ACCORDING to the actress Bo Derek "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping".

That’s certainly not a problem for women in Wandoan with the inaugural Pop Up Country bringing bubbles and a huge array of products right to their doorstep on August 23.

Eileen Parker of Style Out Here came up with the idea for Pop Up Country after the

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It’s about supporting our local businesses and building our rural communities Wandoan Chamber of Commerce Industry (WCCI) approached her to decorate its empty shopfront in Wandoan’s main street.

Eileen thought it was the perfect opportunity to draw businesses to town and bring women together for an afternoon of shopping like they could expect in a big city but with the personalised touch of a small business

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"Online shopping is often much more convenient out here, but you don’t get that personal contact and our local businesses are often overlooked even though they stock beautiful products just because we think we need to leave town to get that one off item or something different," Eileen said.

"The Pop Up Country was

born because I didn’t see the point in just doing a window display, I thought there’s got to be a purpose to this and I realised we could share a fabulous afternoon together.

"It was not only about shopping and showcasing our local businesses, it was about giving women a chance to catch up and meet new people, but still be able to get home in time for dinner with

the kids or to feed the animals.

"It’s about supporting our local businesses and building our rural communities."

Eight businesses from Miles, Taroom and Dalby offered wares ranging from clothes and accessories to jams and chutneys and skincare and hobby horses.

About 60 women from Wandoan, Miles and Taroom

attended the event with former Broncos captain Corey Parker even popping in for a sneakpeak before it was even open but there was no report on whether he picked up a gift for his wife Margaux!

Eileen plans to hold Pop Up Country every three months with different vendors each time so customers not only get a different offering but so businesses from other towns

can come on board and get involved.

"I’m bringing the next Pop Up Country forward by a month to beat the end of year rush and give people a chance to start their Christmas shopping in a more relaxed environment with a bit of a festive air."

The next Pop Up Country will be on Wednesday, October 25 in Wandoan.

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Evolving grazing research ANDREA DAVY ACLAND Pastoral farm manager Steve Erbacher has been watching the grazing trials taking place on New Hope’s rehabilitated mined land for some time now.

But never has he watched so keenly as now, with weaners bred, born and raised at Acland Pastoral Company soon to enter the trial for the first time.

Started in 2013, the grazing trial is run independently by livestock consultants Outcross and takes place on rehabilitated mined land at New Hope’s New Acland Mine north-west of Oakey.

Now in its fifth year, the trial has used cattle purchased from a sole black angus breeder.

Until now.

“What we are doing this time is using our own cattle that have been conceived, born and raised here at Acland Pastoral Company,” Mr Erbacher said.

“They are completely acclimatised to this environment, they have only ever known this land –this is their home, so it will be good to see how that goes.”

The weaners will begin the trial’s induction process by late October, early November.

“They’ll be weighed and given a trial-tag colour, and also given their own identification number for the trial,” he said.

Trial cattle are grazed in paddocks not far from coal operations, and drink recycled water, which is pumped from Toowoomba Regional Council’s Wetalla water treatment plant.

Although the rehabilitated mined land is not irrigated or treated with fertilisers, trial cattle are thoroughly checked for any traces of contaminants after they exit the trial and are processed through the abattoir.

Cattle growth rates are recorded throughout the study, which is run in part by

Grazing trials have been taking place at the rehabilitated mined land at New Hope’s New Acland Mine north-west of Oakey. PHOTO: AGENCY the University of Southern Queensland.

With the trial is now in its final year, Mr Erbacher stressed New Hope would continue the research if they felt there was more to be learned from the study.

“We are still getting good data out the trial,” he said.

“The rehabilitated mined land is performing well and we are starting to see good levels of consistency that shows cattle on the rehabilitated mined land are performing as well or better than cattle in the unmined land.

“The first few years of the trial were basically to prove

that grazing could be done on the rehabilitated mine land.

And now, in these later years, it’s about proving sustainability and viability.”

Introducing their own herd to the trial reflects Acland Pastoral Company’s transition from a predominately backgrounding property, to a

breeding block.

“The breeders have been a recent introduction to Acland Pastoral Company… previously we were more of a backgrounding and farming operation,” he said.

At the moment, there are about 2200 breeding cows and 77 bulls on the property.

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Livestock carriers are still trucking KIRSTIN PAYNE BEFORE LNG, before mining, agriculture stood strong as the backbone of the Australian economy.

But unfortunately consecutive droughts, competitive import prices and a live export ban have weakened the once-sturdy market.

This month, 500 meatworkers in south-east Queensland were told they would lose their jobs after the Churchill Abattoir in Yamanto announced its closure for September.

This news came in conjunction with an announcement from Wulkuraka poultry processing factory Baiada suggesting it would also wind back operations next month to close in January, affecting about 400 workers.

While the news of 900 workers out of their jobs may be shocking, the phenomenon isn’t new.

In July last year,

Queensland’s largest sheep-processing facility also closed its doors, and a similar situation is evolving in Western Australia.

However for the people who connect the meat processing industry to the man on the land, the closures are fortunately having a limited impact.

Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Queensland president Ian Wilde says producers were still recovering from low stock numbers.

“The industry is still in recovery mode, really. The farmers are trying to build up numbers again with the prospect of another dry summer looming,” Ian said.

“Stock prices have eased considerably in the last six months or so, which has made it a bit easier for processors, but unfortunately that hasn’t been enough at the right time to help save Ipswich’s predicament.”

Ian said a number of abattoirs were on reduced kills in a bid to keep a

constant flow of work.

“It probably sounds a bit mercenary, but as carriers we aren’t as likely to be impacted by it,” he said.

“Stock still needs a place to go and it is up to us to move

them –might be further, might be shorter.

“It is a shame to see the end of a long-established plant like the Ipswich one, which started its life as a public-run abattoir and has

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Aeromedical tiltrotor trial set to take flight from Wellcamp

Working to increase healthcare access JACINTA CUMMINS

WHEN Dr Paul Adams' family moved to Mount Isa and his two-year-old daughter fell critically ill, Paul was confronted by a stark reality facing rural and remote Queenslanders every day.

There simply isn’t the timely access to the intensive care unit (ICU) that city folk have.

"My daughter was fortunately stabilised in Mount Isa, but as a doctor it really hit home that if she needed specialist paediatric intensive care, there’s no quick solution and we’d have had a nervous wait," Dr Adams said.

Dr Adams’ father was a flight engineer so he grew up around aviation, and having worked as a paramedic in rural Queensland whilst training as a doctor, it was only a matter of time before he saw the need for Project Thunderbird, a potential tiltrotor trial based out of Wellcamp Airport.

He established Aeromedical Innovation Australasia (AIA) in 2015 to enable Thunderbird, aiming to increase speed and improve accessibility to the best aeromedical care for remote patients by using tiltrotor aircraft.

A tiltrotor is an aircraft which can tilt its rotors vertically to take off and land in a confined space like a helicopter.

When it is in the air, the rotors are moved to a horizontal position to increase the tiltrotor’s speed of travel similar to that of an aeroplane.

The technology was looked

This is a proposed mobile simulator of the AW609 tiltrotor. Dr Adams is trying to get one to help ensure the trial at Wellcamp Airport goes ahead. PHOTO: Supplied into as far back as World War II, but it was only successfully adopted by the American military in 2007.

It is set to be approved for civilian use in America next year and Dr Adams wants to lay the foundations for a speedy transition to Australia.

"Existing essential services are designed to supply the most number of residents," Dr Adams said.

"I’m proposing to use tiltrotors for increased access in remote areas because this is where service level gaps exist due to funding and geographic constraints.

"Everyone deserves quick access to urgent healthcare, and any delay to adoption might be the difference between life and death."

Tiltrotors not only allow better and quicker access, but

they can also reduce the number of parties needed for patient transport.

In a current scenario the patient would normally be taken to a local airstrip, fly to an airport near the destination hospital and then be driven from the airport to the hospital in an ambulance.

Instead, the tiltrotor can take a patient straight to the helipad of a major hospital.

"We are currently making a documentary about a helicopter pilot who sustained severe head injuries after a crash whilst mustering in the Northern Territory" Dr Adams said.

"It took three aircraft and 10.5 hours to get him to where he needed to be, yet in future the tiltrotor will do it in half that time."

Dr Adams admits the

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"Whenever a new technology comes along, people want to see it work before they use it, but the reality is there will always be a risk.

"There is a risk with helicopters and airplanes, but

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Dr Adams approached the director of Wellcamp Airport John Wagner in 2016 about hosting a tiltrotor trial to service south western Queensland out of Wellcamp and Mr Wagner has agreed to this.

Mr Wagner said Wellcamp is an excellent location because of Toowoomba’s medical centre and facilities.

"Wellcamp doesn’t have the curfews which apply to larger airports, our runways can take a Boeing 747 and it is uncontrolled airspace class G, so we are not constrained with air traffic control and we can easily train people there," he said.

Mr Wagner flies an Augusta helicopter and after hearing about AIA's project last year visited the AugustaWestland facility in Philadelphia which produces the Leonardo AW609, the first commercial tiltrotor aircraft.

The AW609 will be used in the Wellcamp trial if it proceeds.

"Paul is a young doctor who is passionate about making a difference and he and his team have done a very good job to get this to where it is," Mr Wagner said.

However Mr Wagner said there is still a lot of work to be done to achieve the trial, citing the initial costs of the tiltrotors as the biggest challenge AIA will have to

Dr Paul Adams at the Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport. PHOTO : Supplied overcome.

"This (proposed trial) is not revolutionary, it's common sense to look at all the available options and then make a decision from that information (trial outcomes).

"Wellcamp will provide the site, but it’s up to Paul and his team to secure funding and the logistics so I hope they are successful."

To increase awareness and

The AW609 Tiltrotor which will be used if AIA is able to conduct a trial from Wellcamp Airport. PHOTO:: Supplied.

This will raise awareness about AIA and its project at the conference before the delegates tour the AW609 factory for two days.

AIA will then host a two day seminar in Brisbane in November on the potential tiltrotors have for Australian aeromedical services.

Up to 200 participants from the aviation and medical industries, government bodies

hopefully secure support for the tiltrotor, Dr Adams wants to get a mobile simulator.

This will consist of a tiltrotor fuselage towed behind a truck which he already has.

Dr Adams is travelling to America in October with seven other AIA delegates to attend the Air Medical Transport Conference in Texas, one of the biggest aeromedical conferences in the world.

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"Our three biggest challenges are comprehension, credibility and capability which means we have to articulate our vision well and then follow through with delivery.

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Trip abroad offers insight New Holland trip takes Gerard Bellgrove to the future of precision farming JACINTA CUMMINS GERARD Bellgrove got a glimpse into the future of precision agriculture when he toured New Holland’s American Research and Development in New Holland, Pennsylvania in September.

"The R&D centre focused on things like stress testing on joints and components and had an incredible virtual reality room where you could drive a header of the future which was pretty cool," he said.

"We saw the new methane-powered concept tractor which showed how things are going to digital displays rather than buttons and how America is different to Australia in that a farmer can use alternative energy like methane or propane which

they have on site because they own what’s under the soil."

Gerard, who is the New Holland dealer at Ainsworth Motors in Chinchilla, had more than a decade’s worth of industry experience rewarded when he was one of 15 New Holland representatives and specialists who met a six month sales target and secured a place on the nine day trip to America.

The trip went to the Farm Progress Show in Illinois, toured some bean and corn crop trials and went to one of Ohio’s biggest New Holland Dealerships, Apple Farm Services, which had recently expanded.

In a sharp contrast to the futuristic tractors with touchscreens which are powered by alternative fuels,

the group also toured two Amish farms in Lancastershire, Pennsylvania.

The operations produced corn and dairy products with Gerard surprised at how up-to-date the Amish farmers use of technology on farm was given they have a reputation for shunning it.

"The thing which really stood out was that they actually do use engines, but they are smaller so they’re using mules as well but they had all the data about the milk in the dairy which you’d expect to get on an Australian dairy farm.

"In that particular community, it was more about them not wanting to be part of the outside world than being completely cut off – they don’t use mobiles, but they do have a landline in a box outside the

house so they are still connected to the world, but not like we are."

Gerard said the greater government support for agriculture in America such as subsidies for machinery meant not everything he learnt would translate back home to Australia, but he had gained some excellent contacts and increased his Australian network.

"For me, one of the most amazing things was that where we are always farming to retain water the Americans are working to manage too much water due to snow and higher rainfall.

"They start every season with a full moisture profile, but they are working within much smaller windows than we have so they are put a lot of technology into their soil so

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"One of the most amazing things was that where we are always farming to retain water, the Americans are working to manage too much water... they are ready to plant when conditions are good."

Of course, a bunch of Aussies wouldn’t be able to go overseas for work without putting some time aside for play so there was plenty of rest and recreation included

Chinchilla’s Gerard Bellgrove (back row, fourth left.) with the other New Holland specialists he travelled to America with in September. Photo: Supplied

on the trip.

The group went to Abraham Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield in Illinois and heard the world’s best Abraham Lincoln impersonator recite the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg before finishing off with a few days in the Big Apple.

There they went to the famed Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn where Muhammad Ali trained and Gerard got in the ring for a bout with former WBA super welterweight titleholder Yuri Foreman.

He landed a few blows, but admits that Foreman probably let him.

"I’ve never been in a boxing ring in my life and he’s a world champ, of course he was giving me an easy run!" he laughs.

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Santa sale hits $21,000 First Western Downs Santa sale tops at $21,000 JACINTA CUMMINS THE Western Downs Santa Group Inaugural Bull Sale offered 74 bulls to achieve a top price of $21,000 and an average of $4756 at Dalby on September 16 with a clearance of 88 per cent.

Four females were also offered with three sold to a top of $6000 and an average of $3333.

It was the first time that the nine studs had come together for the sale which was also the first to be held in the new sale ring at Dalby Regional Saleyards.

They were: Byac (Spring Creek); Dundee (Inglewood); Glen Leigh (Deepwater, NSW); Hallcraig (Deepwater, NSW); Hayleigh (Dallarnil); Shannonbrook (Jondaryan); Swan Hill (Blackall); Triple S (Taroom) and Warrillee (Bunburra).

Jan Clark, Enniskillen Pastoral Company, "Mt Enniskillen", Blackall paid $21,000 for Triple S Meataxe M60 from Triple S stud owned

by Jason and Kylie Bruggemann of "Wongalea" north of Taroom.

Meataxe is a 24-month-old son of Yarrawonga Dividend J494 and weighs 934 kilograms, with a scrotal measurement of 41 centimetres and an EMA of 137 square centimetres.

It was the first time Ms Clark had purchased from Triple S, but she was looking for temperament and frame and had seen other bulls from the stud do well.

The second top price was Lot 4 Glen Leigh Lynx L184 (P) which was bought by Roger Carige of Newberry te Velde Carige Agencies, Glen Innes for $15,500.

The Barlow Family of Yarrabee Santa stud north of Dingo paid $15,000 for

TOP PRICE: Triple S Meataxe M60 made the top price of $21,000 at the Western Downs Santa Group Inaugural Bull Sale in Dalby. PHOTO: Jacinta Cummins.

Shannonbrook Lucky Last (P).

Scott Russell was volume buyer, securing 10 bulls for his commercial herd at a top of $3500 for an average of $3050 through Ray White, Gracemere.

Western Downs Santa Group spokesman Frank Ashman said being an

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Those studs provided a top product and they got what they deserve...

inaugural sale went against the vendors slightly as it is an extra sale in an already established sale program, but overall it was a solid result and the sale would be held again next year.

"I have had feedback from most of the vendors who have been relatively happy and

there were some there who were bloody over the moon," he said.

"Those studs provided a top product and they got what they deserve, there were a few others who would have liked to have got more for better bulls, but in an auction, you’ve only got to have two people

who want the same thing to get those strong prices so I’d be expecting it to be better next year."

Eighty-six buyers registered for the sale which was settled

by GDL Dalby, with Mark Duthie and Harvey Weyman-Jones auctioneering.

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DDCGI Awards success Growers from across the Darling Downs converged on the town of Dalby to recognise the region’s high achievers at an awards night held Friday 5 September, 2014. Darling Downs Cotton Growers Incorporated (DDCGI) hosted the event.

The Darling Downs Cotton Growers Awards have been

running for more than 20 years.

Awards organiser Geoff McIntyre said the evening always proved a hit for farmers as well as their families.

"It went really well, it was a good night and everyone enjoyed themselves,� Mr McIntyre said.

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There was a great turn out for the day. PHOTO: Michael Doyle

Enjoying a day at the saleyards are Craig Davidson from Meandarra with Noel Cosgrove from Dalby. PHOTO:Michael Doyle

A day at Dalby Saleyards

The yards were a give of activity. PHOTO: Michael Doyle

There was a great turn out on the day. PHOTO: Michael Doyle

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Experience a bit of Bavaria without the long haul flight MORE than six million people travel to Munich for the annual Oktoberfest, but after some locals told Philip Snook that they usually celebrated the volksfest on their farm, he decided it was time to bring the Bavarian festival to Wandoan.

Philip, who is the general manager of the Juandah Hotel Motel, had been looking for something to attract visitors to town when a chance conversation at the pub gave him the inspiration he was looking for.

"A couple of ladies were having a few drinks and showed me some photos from their ‘October party’ which they had on their farm and everyone had got dressed up and it just looked like a great way for people to catch up," he said.

"I’d been to Oktoberfest in ’97 and loved the atmosphere which was a lot more than just beer, one of the things which we struck me most were the huge ferris wheels and the carnival rides.

"With the Show’s black tie ball the night before and the footy finals the next day, this will people a reason to stay in town and catch up.

"Things have certainly slowed up since the resources sector quietened down and we’ve got to start finding things for our town to keep it going and attract people here."

Volksfest means "peoples’ festival" and is

usually a combination of a beer or wine festival and a travelling funfair.

In keeping with tradition, Wandoan’s Oktoberfest will see the main street shut down to host market stalls and rides and entertainment for the whole family while food vendors will be offering German specialties from sauerkraut to pretzels and a four piece band will be playing on the main stage.

To give the festival an Australian twist, Sergeant Brad Fewtrell is coming out of ‘woodchopping retirement’ to run a woodchopping competition with a total of $3000 up for grabs.

So whether you just like your beer cold and by the litre, catching up with mates over good food and music or dressing up in costume, there’s a reason to get out and celebrate.

At the end of the day you’re in Australia and that means just about any excuse will do for a party.

I’ll raise a stein to that.

"Prost!"

Oh and just a warning, if you think you’ve finally found a use for that stein you smuggled out of Oktoberfest on your gap year trip you can leave it at home because Australian alcohol laws are a bit tighter than Germany’s so you can’t drink from an actual glass outside.

The Wandoan Oktoberfest 2017 is on WANDOAN FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Philip Snook pours a stein of beer ahead of the Wandoan Oktoberfest Saturday, September 30.

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