Country Journal, Week #54 - January 17, 2022

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Remarkable Killarney

Killarney is a small town with a huge personality. What it may lack in population, it more than compensates for in visitor numbers...and those numbers included the Country Journal’s Gerard Walsh and his wife Margaret recently. “What amazed me most of all was that there were four cafes in the main street serving a tea, coffee, a snack and or breakfast, and there was an additional café/shop just east of the Killarney State School,” Gerard remarks. More page 4...

Warning to hunters

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The Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC) has issued a warning for pig hunters to practice good hygiene...not for the sake of their customers, but for the sake of their own health. QMDC regional co-ordinator for feral animals, Darren Marshall has reported an analysis showing a subsantial proportion of wild pigs in Australia are to be infected with the bacterial disease, leptospirosis...and it can spread in floodwaters as well as through contact with the urine of infected animals. See page 7.

Face to face returns next week

Those empty supermarket shelves are being reflected in the saleyards as well... increasing numbers of COVID cases in regional Australia has bitten cattle sales nation wide, with the latest to notice the trend being the Mt Gambier store cattle sales which traditionally draws buyers from interstate. Many Queensland abattoirs are operating on a reduced staffing schedule or fewer hours and some have postponed kills in the short term. Stories inside.

Servicing Warwick, Stanthorpe and Beyond

Our popular Face To Face interview printed weekly in the Country Journal will return next week after a break for Christmas and the New Year. Each week since July last year, Gerard Walsh has interviewed a well-known person or couple in the community which is printed on two to three pages of the Country Journal. The first Face To Face for this year will be next week when a story on Jim and Jackie Wedge from Ascot Angus and Charolais Stud at North Toolburra will be printed. The couple hold a sale each year which E warwick@rfsteelbuildings.com.au attracts a large crowd of buyers and supporters. They run one of the most successful stud beef operations in Queensland.

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Relaxing contact rules

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To ensure the continued supply of essential goods and services to the community, some critically essential workers can now provide essential services even while classified as close contacts, provided they are fully vaccinated and asymptomatic and can meet the necessary requirements.

Employers should self-assess whether their organisation or business falls under the narrow list of critical industries. Then they should identify the roles within their organisation that are critical, and follow the process and use the ‘Critical worker list template’ found in Resources on the Critically essential roles and business continuity planning eHub, to notify the Queensland Government.

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Mildew on mungbeans DAF plant pathologist Lisa has cracked the case in a 60-year mungbean mildew mystery.

Powdery mildew has been present in Australia for at least six decades, but the cause of the disease has remained a mystery until now.

As part of her PhD studies with the University of Southern Queensland, Lisa identified two culprits in this crop disease.

We’ll now work with Queensland growers to choose the most suitable varieties to grow and manage crop rotations to minimise the spread of disease.

Mungbean has an export value to Australia of more than $100 million and is mainly grown in Queensland and Northern New South Wales.

Illegal dumping Illegal dumping happens to many landowners in the Southern Downs and now the The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) has welcomed the Queensland Government’s announcement of funding to assist farmers and landholders with the cost of removing and safely disposing

of illegally dumped waste.

Farmers can now apply for grants of up to $50,000 through the Illegal Dumping Grant Program to remove illegally dumped waste and hazardous waste from their land.

QFF CEO Dr Georgina Davis said farmers were seeing an increase in the incidences of illegal dumping on their land.

“Illegally dumped waste has become notably worse for the state’s farmers with the introduction of the waste levy in 2019 and has not abated as the levy continues to rise,” Dr Davis said.

ample food sources for rodents and growers need to walk their paddocks to monitor the situation.

Mr Henry warns that you can have numbers build up without noticing if you don’t look hard enough.

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Cattle sales slump ELIZABETH VONEIFF

The increasing numbers of COVID cases in regional Australia has bitten cattle sales nation wide, with the latest to notice the trend being the Mt Gambier store cattle sales which traditionally draws buyers from interstate.

Prices slumped at the regular Friday sale last week, especially compared to higher expectations from December numbers.

All cattle sales, especially heavy steers, suffered.

Agents report that regular feedlot buyers were absent from the sale which they believed was a direct result of the virus outbreak on the system, and numbers in cattle sales in our region are down (see separate report from Ross Ellis, this edition.)

Many Queensland abattoirs are operating on a reduced staffing schedule or fewer hours and some have postponed kills in the short term.

Naturally, these forces will come out in the wash in the supply chain.

Generally, northern NSW buyers were still keen and made up the bulk of buyers.

Angus steers 450 kilograms-plus made

$4.19/kg to $5.42/kg; while coloured steers of the same weight sold to $4.62/kg.

Angus steers 360-450kg sold from $5.06$6.62/kg; with coloured steers 360-450kg making $4.96-$6/kg.

A majority of the yarding were medium weight steers, which held the line this month, driven by demand from regular feedlot buyers, northern commission buyers and local restockers.

Angus steers 320-360kg sold from $5.76$6.97/kg; while coloured steers in the same

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class made $5.48-$6.62/kg.

Angus steers 280-320kg sold from $6.52-$7.21/kg; while the coloured steers in this weight range made $5.97-$6.92kg.

This comes after a predicted "blistering start" to the 2022 cattle market by AgTrader analysts.

"Supply across the southern weaner sales, and at the handful of saleyards in NSW and Queensland that have opened for business so far, has been significantly

tighter.

Demand is going in the other direction, courtesy of good rain and an abundance of feed across much of the cattle growing country in the east.

While that dynamic is at play, prices will continue to rise."

As we have seen in the last two years, what a difference a few days make in a pandemic.

The harvest won’t wait; and the floods have done serious damage “We are talking about crops with an annual harvest so the rules and decisions made this month will define the supply of fresh produce to Australian consumers right through the year to next harvest in 2023.” This is apple and pear industry leader Phil Turnbull, summing up the urgency of addressing labour supply shortages caused by testing, isolation, vaccine and return to work rule chaos arising across Australia as the summer warms up. He has called for a “national, workable, risk-based approach” to ensure national supply chains hold up during the critical harvest period.

It’s just as urgent getting it right now as it was when Christmas loomed, Mr Turnbull argues--perhaps more so.

“Just like the state and national governments were able to agree on a nationally consistent definition prior to Christmas, every Australian now needs our governments to agree on workable requirements for isolation, and return to work for asymptomatic staff right along the supply chain from orchard to supermarket shelves,” he concluded.

Mr Turnbull’s call that governments act to control what they can comes as nature shows it has its own role to play, with farmland in Queensland nad NSW having caused “diabolical” damage to crops, according to Queensland farming charity Drought Angels’ boss, Natasha Johnston. From barley crops in Texas, on the banks of the Dumeresq to split and hail damaged stone fruit on the Granite Belt, and flattened sugar as a result of the storms at Maryborough, it’s been a rough summer despite the welcome rain.

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Killarney in no one’s shadow

Killarney is a small town with a huge personality. What it may lack in population, it more than compensates for in visitor numbers...and those numbers include Margaret and I. We headed to Killarney for early church and then breakfast in Willow Street on a fine January morning.

What amazed me most of all was that there were four cafes in the main street serving a tea, coffee, a snack and or breakfast.

There was an additional café/shop just east of the Killarney State School.

If I added on the Killarney Hotel which was busy in the morning, that meant six places where visitors could have a snack, beer, tea or coffee.

It was impressive to see the activity in the main street.

Some were calling at the newsagency for a paper or two where for the first time, I saw a coffee shop in the newsagency.

Margaret is always keen for a drive around town and I went east past the former site of Killarney Abattoirs and then turned left over the creek.

It doesn’t take long to see all the Wickham Farms bases in the town and the sawmills where last Sunday a new shed was being constructed on the sawmill near the showgrounds.

Killarney has service industries, including a vehicle repair business in Willow St which had four second-hand vehicles for sale.

It is dangerous Plenty of visitors in Killarney. Photo: John Towells. to start naming businesses but here we go.

Around lunchtime, action started at the The biggest business in town along with Killarney pool but because it was an overWickhams and the sawmills is the Killarney cast morning I hadn’t my swimmers in the Co-op where patrons can buy anything from car. I shed a tear when I drove past Charlie lollies and chips to electricial good and a Andrews Oval on the Killarney Recreation truck load of farm fuel.

Reserve and realised there is no rugby The Warwick Credit Union is on the northleague played in Killarney anymore. ern side of the town in a building once the One of the biggest privately owned busihome of one of the nesses/charities in town is Killarney four big banks.

Memorial Aged Care with hilltop views from Big banks have many rooms. left many small They don’t have a shop front but it is great communities like to know there are Queensland Ambulance Killarney and Service first responders at Killarney which been replaced by financial institu- are called in time of need to help until an ambulance arrives from Warwick. tions like the Open 7 Days There were motels and caravan parks in Warwick Credit Members’ Price - $10 the Killarney area along with sporting faciliUnion.

Permanent Membership ties, schools, tourist type and dress shops The town of Available - $5 along with a heritage centre.

Killarney has two Nightly Specials real estate agents, Looking around the farming land close to Sunday to Thursday my guess a lot of town, there was a lot of lucerne hay being the town growth made in one of the richest agricultural land is people heading area in Queensland.

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Edible...and protective... skin Imagine extending the shelf life of fruit by coating it with an edible skin?

One European developer, Akorn Technology, has announced that its edible coatings for stone fruit, citrus, melons and apples has been approved by the European Union.

The formulation contains corn zein and other plant based, upcycled ingredients that allow fruit to have a longer shelf life and eliminates the need for plastic coating.

The coating cuts moisture, rot and decay losses in half the supply chain.

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approval. Those that have were only permitted to be used on fruit that required peeling before eating.

The image shows a nectarine external appearance after 12 days (protected, left versus unprotected, right).

Frozen avos here

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Three tonnes of frozen avocados from Vietnam’s Central Highlands arrived in Australia on 11 January. According to the exporter, the Uu Dam Vietnam company, the arrival marks a new level for the fruit. The shipment was sold to local distributers and will soon his Australian shelves.

Frozen avocados remain good for three to six months, although the final texture loses some of the creaminess of fresh. So, while they are not as suitable for salads, they work well for smoothies and guacamole. Fresh avocados from Vietnam are not currently imported.

US meat slows Rising COVID-19 infections among U.S. workers have forced meat plants to slow production and the government to replace slaughterhouse inspectors, meat companies and union officials said.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated beef processors killed 112,000 cattle on Friday, down about 6% from a year earlier and matching Jan. 3 levels that were the lowest since October. Pig slaughtering, meanwhile, was down about 5% from last year on Friday, the USDA said. A Cargill beef plant in Dodge City, Kansas, was getting by with a “skeleton crew,” said Lee Reichmuth, a Nebraska cattle feeder and board member for the United States Cattlemen’s Association. The facility supplies beef to retail, foodservice, and processed foods customers domestically and internationally. continued from previous page... the town folk and visitors was all positive. Allora has the car stickers, “best little town on the Downs” and I am wondering if Killarney should have a mantra as well.

I was president of the Warwick and District Tourist Association for a year in the 1980s so have a little knowledge about tourism.

Could we call Killarney “the pretty village in the shadow of the Great Dividing Range” but that slogan or catch cry is too long..

If anyone can come up with a different slogan for Killarney send an email to me care of editor@thedailyjournal.ink The Granite Belt name is used successfully to promote Stanthorpe and District.

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Wild pig disease warning: leptospirosis is about The Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC) has issued a warning for pig hunters to practice good hygiene...not for the sake of their customers, but for the sake of their own health. QMDC regional co-ordinator for feral animals, Darren Marshall has reported an analysis showing a subsantial proportion of wild pigs in Australia are to be infected with the bacterial disease, leptospirosis...and it can spread in floodwaters as well as through contact with the urine of infected animals.

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects both animals and humans, with the bacteria spread through the urine of infected animals not just including pigs-the recent mice and rat plagues were also a risk. Cattle and wild animals such as marsupials are also known to have infections.

The World Health Organization has recognised the disease as a re-emerging communicable disease, responsible for about one million human severe cases and 59,000 deaths per year worldwide. In Queensland the disease is growing, with a 57% increase in cases since 2013 and over

50 cases reported in Queensland last year.

Queensland has the greatest infection burden in Australia.

Leptospirosis has also borken out in the Phillipines, and been associated with multiple daths In the early stages of leptospirosis, symptoms include muscle pain, severe headache, high fever as well as chills, redness of the eyes, abdominal pain, jaundice, hemorrhages both externally and in the nose, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash.

Associate Professor Dr Bruce Chater (OAM), head of UQ’s Rural Clinical School, and Theodore GP, said “leptospirosis is a pretty nasty illness. You might think you have the flu - that’s the difficulty. You’ve got a headache. You’ve got aches and pains and you’ve got fevers. But if you let it go on it can actually give quite serious complications, including liver failure, kidney failure, and heart attacks and

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Lucerne

Great to see a lot of hay being made at the present time across the Southern Downs.

I can’t say we have drought with Gerard Walsh proofed our farm but I do know there is a lot of hay being made and sold. am now on vitamins that may help me It is good business to stock up on hay, keep COVID-19 at bay or better still stop round and square bales, as our weather me from getting too bad. patterns have changed down the years and I get a bit of asthma and bronchiit would appear we will get a lot more tis so worry a little bit more about highs and lows. the virus than younger people One high last week was 670mm rain in a Bull stays few hours in the Wide Bay area which The Angus bull called Boris who I meant a rodeo at Maryborough where a lot reported last edition had been lost of Warwick riders were heading was post- and then found in the Greymare poned.

Rodgers Creek area has settled Last week, there was a lot of hay in paddown well on our Greymare propdocks at Greymare, Sandy Creek and on erty. the road from Warwick to Killarney He was kept in the yard at our Don’t believe I will get around to it but place with a few steers before would love for make some lucerne hay on being put out to run with 23 cows our property. and heifers.

Difficult to justify spending $10,000 odd The mob is in a paddock of 10 hectares for haymaking equipment but with so which is made secure with a six-wire many farmers and contractors making big fence. round bales rather than little squares, secLong term, the plan is to have a Speckle ond-hand hay equipment might be a iittle Park bull, especially with our heifers, but easier to source. that is a little Covid battle down the track.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard My wife Margaret two years ago, I bought some Immune has one Speckle Defence vitamins from the Warwick Park heifer and the Friendly Society Palmerin St Pharmacy. hope is to have a Friends and relatives down the years lot more in the have told me about tablets and vitamins future. which build up the immune system as Sport short being helpful in the event of flu or the panWell done to the demic.

Poms for battling When many members of the public were hard to ensure the buying toilet paper and the like two years Fourth Test at the ago, I went to the pharmacy and stocked Sydney Cricket up on Immune Defence vitamins just Ground would end incase I couldn’t get them if COVID-29 in a draw. took a turn for the worse.

Interesting a couA week ago when the Daily Journal and ple of weeks ago Daily News were writing about pandemic when Warwick numbers on the Southern Downs, I started paceman Mark on the first of my vitamins.

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New milk body sets goals The newly formed dairy advocacy body eastAUSmilk outlined its priorities at its first board meeting last month.

Formed in 2021, eastAUSmilk is a blending of two separate advocacy bodies, Dairy Connect Farmer's Group and Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation.

It represents eastern seaboard dairy producers from the southern border of NSW to the tip of Queensland, and their priority is to see dairy farmers in the region grow and thrive through servicing a market of over 13 million consumers.

President Matt Trace is excited about the opportunities arising from the merger.

"They represent a strong platform from which to represent dairy producers with a unity of purpose before government, retailers, processors and industry stakeholders," he said. "The inaugural eastAUSmilk board

meeting illustrated that we had far more in common than what a 'false border' represents across agriculture generally and dairy specifically."

President Trace said that fresh milk producers face many common issues.

"We will be putting forward strong policy positions on issues including 'truth in labelling'; standardised milk sampling, testing and calibration of equipment; environmental and climate sustainability and enhancing the industry mandatory code of conduct," he explained. "All of which will lead to eastAUSmilk seeking strong farmgate prices to ensure a viable dairy industry now and into the future.

Together, we will move toward a collaborative dairy farmer cohort cooperating collectively for the good of the dairy industry generally."

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KICK-START YOUR CAREER WITH A Traineeship at Council

2022 TRAINEESHIPS NOW AVAILABLE:

Council is proud to serve a growing, multi-cultural community and applications are currently invited for the 2022 traineeship intake.

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Visit sdrc.qld.gov.au to download the application form and apply.

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Smaller yarding of cattle CONTRIBUTED BY ROSS ELLIS MCDOUGALL AND SONS

Agents opened the New Year selling roster with a smaller yarding of cattle; sheep and lamb numbers were up with 2169 head yarded. The prices across all sectors were on a similar rate to the final sales of 2021. Covid again is going to play a part in the delivery and processing chain as the factors facing the movement of people and product between paddock to plate still cause concern. Pig and poultry numbers were on a par with the final sales.

Vealer steers averaged 693.8c/kg topping at 810.2c/kg or $1744.54 to $2121.02 Vealer heifers averaged 606.3c/kg topping at 720.2c/kg or $1682.85 to $1960.29 Feeder steers averaged 606c/kg topping at 650c/kg or $2378.59 to $2551.40 Feeder heifers averaged 630.1c topping at 654.2c/kg or $2360.27 to $2707.13 Yearling steers averaged 663.2c/kg topping at 708.2c/kg or $2358.90 to $2672.75 Yearling heifers averaged 538.8c/kg topping at 606.2c/kg or $1844.10 to $2262.00

Steers averaged 397.5c/kg topping at 422.2c/kg or $2106.99 to $2168.32 Heifers averaged 373.8c/kg topping at 420.2c/kg or $2080.95 to $2789.36 Cows averaged 327.7c/kg topping at 347.2c/kg or $1786.16 to $2012.29 Bulls averaged 398.4c/kg topping at 508.2c/kg or $1972.09 to $2668.05 Lambs topped at $228 to average $182.21 Hoggets topped at $222 to average $179.19 Ewes topped at $221 to average $128.14 Wethers topped at $198 to average $143.89 Rams topped at $225 to average $188.56 Lamb rams topped at $264 to average $185.54 The total yarding of 2169 head averaged $168.60/ head. The yarding was of mixed quality with a fair few lighter feed on types available compared to the finished trade and export types.

Boars topped at $62, Sows sold from $100 to $248, Pork sold from $160 to $194, Stores sold from $29 to $168 The pig yarding was dominated by light

stores with only a few available for the processing types.

Poultry was in good supply again with Quails selling to $23, Chicks selling from $7 to $15, Hen and chicks selling to $20, Ducklings selling to $27.50, Guinea fowl selling to $35.50.

The poultry section was mainly some lines of chickens as well as the ducks and ducklings that were prevalent last selling season.

Free school haircuts

School may be opening a little late this year, but hair cuts for the kids shouldn’t be postponed.

The Granite Belt Neighbourhood Centre and High Street Barber are offering free kid’s haircuts at three locations in the southern part of the shire. Bookings are available from 10 to 230 pm. Sunday, 23 January at Hilton Street, Stanthorpe. Monday, 24 January at Dalveen Hall Tuesday, 25 January at Wallangarra Hall.

To book, ring 4681 3777.

WARWICK INDOOR RECREATION AND AQUATIC CENTRE 29 Palmerin Street, Warwick - Phone 4661 7955