Country Journal, Week #78 - July 4, 2022

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Scholarships

Soup season on Southern Downs

A crisis of chemicals in the USA

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The end of bees?

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ustralian bees are at great risk which the NSW DPI is trying to contain.

This is the time of new disease and pest threats on the Southern Downs: Fall armyworm, Japanese encephalitis, Foot and Mouth and Lumpy Skin Disease.

The bad news is that a more significant pest has arrived on our shores called the Varroa Mite. The insect directly affects honeybees and has decimated populations globally; indeed it is the worst bee pest in the world and Australia is unique in currently being Varroa free.

There are several consequences if the mite comes to Australia including the loss of hives, $70 million a year in honey and loss of Australia's mite-free status for exports. The impact for pol-

lination services provided by the bee industry".

The economic value of bee pollination of our crops is $14.2 billion.

On a positive note, it looks like Varroa was detected early, following probable accidental transport into the port of Newcastle.

Thankfully Australia's biosecurity has sentinel hives at ports and following the detection of Varroa, all hives within 10km of Newcastle are being euthanized. Obviously, this is a harsh measure for the beekeepers of Newcastle but we do not want what has happened

lination on farms, gardens and the broad environment is even more epic, which Leader of the Opposition David Littleproud has noted.

"The biosecurity threat from varroa mite is more than a danger to Australia's $100 million in(07) 46 619 835 honey and hive products.E warwick@rfsteelbuildings.com.au Around 65% of agricultural production is reliant on the pol-

with fire ants in Brisbane to be repeated. Additional measures include a 50km biosecurity zone around Newcastle and a nationwide alert to all beekeepers to actively monitor for Varroa. The significance of this is a second infected hive 10km from the port has been found. So now all NSW is on high alert.

As of late last week, the Varroa mite was found in hives in Bulahdelah, Seaham and in the Hunter region. The NSW DPI are continuing to euthanise hives as required.

Picture of the Varroa mites.

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Country briefs Minister for Food wanted Among the threats facing Australia’s food supply are climate change, loss of agricultural land, worker shortages, a looming fertilizer shortage, and global shocks such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Dr Rachel Carey, senior lecturer in food systems at the University of Melbourne, said Australia’s status as a net food exporter should not be taken for granted, and the government needed a long-term plan to boost food security.

“The COVID-19 pandemic was perhaps the first time that Australian consumers had that experience of going to a supermarket and not finding what it was they wanted to buy,” Carey said. “We’ll continue to experience that more frequently, unless we really do some serious long-term planning for how to increase the resilience of the food supply. We don’t really have anybody in government who is

accountable for whether people have enough food, so a minister for food might be a good start.”

Professor Mark Howden, director of the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University, backed the idea of a minister for food, given expected population growth in Australia and globally.

Tightening foreign ownership Companies from Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran would be barred from purchasing U.S. agricultural land under language approved by the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday.

“More needs to be done to ensure the U.S. food supply chain is secure and independent,” said Rep. Dan Newhouse,

lamenting that there are no federal safeguards against land purchases by authoritarian regimes .It was the second year in a row that appropriators agreed with Newhouse’s warnings about foreign investment in U.S. farmland, Last year, the Appropriations Committee voted to ban China from acquiring additional U.S. farmland.

The proposal was eventually revised to a request for a USDA report on the matter.

“We’ve agreed to include additional adversaries to the base amendment this year given the horrific events in Ukraine at the hands of Russia and the Putin regime,” said Newhouse during the three-hour committee markup of the USDA-FDA bill.

“As many members of this committee know, China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are not our allies.”Foreign investors owned 37.6 million acres, or 2.9%, of U.S. agricultural land — forest and farmland — at the end of 2020, according to a USDA report. Holdings have increased by an average of nearly 2.2 mil-

lion acres a year since 2015.

Forests accounted for 46% of agricultural land held by foreigners. Some 29% was cropland, and pastures and other ag land accounted for 23%.

Avocadoes remain steady According to NSW Farmers Coffs Harbour Chair Paul Shoker, the price of avocados will remain relatively low over the next six years after significant expansion in the industry.

“The concern is we would like to see retailers sticking with Australian avocados,” he said in a recent interview. “The temptation is, coming into Spring, it will shift to New Zealand avocados however the expansion in Western Australia in particular does mean we have avocados now pretty much 10 months in the year. There’s good value there for customers and good produce as well.”

Fit Kids a WIRAC hit Leonie Fuge

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f big smiles, promises to return next week, and red faces are anything to go by then WIRAC Fit Kids school holidays program was a success.

Brooke Price, assistant manager of WIRAC and fitness manager was the brains behind the energetic and fun sessions saying, "I noticed that kids would mimic what their parents were doing during adult group fitness classes. So to mix it up thought we

could use the new group fitness room and offer holiday fitness sessions for kids."

Brooke took the fundamentals of fitness, and when combined with fun activities, competitions and teamwork, produced a challenging program for kids aged 5-10 and another for those 10-16 years.

"I turned body weight movement into games, we played human connect four with yellow and red batons," said Brooke describing some of the activities of the younger group.

Along with creating a culture of inclusiveness in the groups, Brooke also allowed winning teams to choose the next activities.

"I think they like telling other kids what they had to do next."

One little girl said she loved the

session so much she wanted to stay for the big kids' group.

For the older group, the activities involved a variety of boot camp fundamentals with a circuit of core, leg and cardiac work.

The Fit Kids program will run next Thursday with the 5 to 10-year-old Fit Kids at 10-11 am and the 10 to 16-year-old Fit Kids from 11 am -12 pm Photos show the Fit Kids program contributed by WIRAC.

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Rotary legends Gerard Walsh editor@thedailyjournal.ink

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he Rotary Club of Warwick Sunrise donated $20,000 to the local community in the past year.

Outgoing president Peter Rodeck said the biggest donation was $11,000 for a Shade Sail for BUSHKids in Wood St. “The Rotary District helped us with a $5555 grant towards the project.

Before our donation, they didn’t have outdoor shelter from the sun for the children and their families,” Mr Rodeck said.

The club also donated $9000 to projects of Rotary International.

Mr Rodeck said the

club managed extremely well in the 2021-2022 year even with COVID restrictions which delayed a number of projects.

Tracey Sexton was inducted as president at the club’s changeover dinner at the Condamine Sports Club.

The club has been going for 22 years and has just under 20 members.

After an outstanding year as

president, Mr Rodeck was awarded with his second Paul Harris Fellow which relates to one sapphire on his badge.

The pin was presented to him by Past District Governor Harry Bolton (Rotary Club of Tenterfield) representing the District Governor Jeff Egan (Rotary Club of Mt Warning AM) Past District Governor

Harry Bolton with new Rotary Club of Warwick Sunrise president Tracey Sexton and past president Peter Rodeck at the changeover dinner at the Condamine Sports Club on Thursday night; Richard Hardacre, Sandra Head and Helen McFarlane at the changeover dinner of the Rotary Club of Warwick Sunrise. Photo Gerard Walsh

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to engage with relevant departments and authorities around the supply chain issues including Treasury and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).”

They are also actively working to educate consumers about cost pressures for growers to help them understand the rising costs of fresh produce until those pressures are eased.

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AUSVEG is working hard to ease the production pains of fresh produce growers in Queensland.

“For growers, the cost of production issues are significant,” they said. “Fertiliser costs, chemical costs, fuel costs, and wage costs, are having critical impacts on growers to be able to plant their crops.”

They are calling on the new government to implement the Australian Agriculture Visa to help growers access a reliable, competent and efficient workforce.

“AUSVEG is and will continue to work with new Agriculture Minister Murray Watt to search for solutions to the current cost pressures facing growers,” they said.

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Chemical shortages hit US farmers Elizabeth Voneiff editor@thedailyjournal.ink

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merican news service, Reuters, reports that U.S. farmers are facing "off the charts" chemical shortages.

Many growers have cut back on using common weedkillers, hunted for substitutes to popular fungicides, and changed planting plans over persistent shortages of agricultural chemicals that threaten to trim harvests.

Spraying smaller volumes of herbicides and turning to less-effective fungicides increase the risk for weeds and diseases to dent crop production at a time when global grain supplies are already tight because the Ukraine war is reducing the country's exports.

Interviews with more than a dozen chemical dealers, manufacturers, farmers, and weed specialists showed shortages disrupted U.S. growers' production strategies and raised their costs.

Shawn Inman, owner of distributor Spinner Ag Incorporated in Zionsville, Indiana, said supplies are the tightest in his 24-year career.

"This is off the charts," Inman said. "Everything was delayed, delayed, delayed."

Shortages further reduce options for farmers battling weeds that developed resistance to glyphosate, the key ingredient in the commonly

used Roundup herbicide, after decades of overuse in the United Sates.

Prices for glyphosate and glufosinate, another widely used herbicide sold under the brand Liberty, jumped more than 50% from last year, dealers said, padding profit at companies like Bayer AG, BASF SE, and Corteva, Inc. More difficulties are on the horizon, as BASF, which formulates glufosinate, told Reuters the supply situation will not improve significantly next year.

"It's going to take more time than what our customers, farmers, and retailers would have thought," said Scott Kay, vice president of U.S. crops for BASF. Tennessee farmer Jason Birdsong said he abandoned plans to plant soybeans on 100 acres after waiting months to receive Liberty he ordered from Nutrien Ag Solutions.

He ultimately received less than half his order for 125 gallons and planted corn on the land instead. Birdsong said he is better able to control weeds in corn than soybeans.

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Around the shire this week.....

Elizabeth Voneiff editor@thedailyjournal.ink

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he Southern Downs was home to three interesting developments over the past week to do with crime, rates and wise decisions.

For the first time since this paper was established, the number of reported crimes was higher in the Granite Belt than in the northern half of the shire. Not only higher, but much higher, which begs the question, what was happening in the border region last week?

Stanthorpe recorded 18 offences and Wallangarra hosted eight drug busts. Meanwhile, Warwick and surrounds managed a peaceful 16 offences.

The final version of the 2022/23 Council budget was adopted this week and, yes, residents will be paying more

for rates, water, and a range of other services. Don't be too hard on your elected officials who are struggling with material and labour shortages, ruined roads from multiple flooding episodes, increased costs of everything and a housing crisis. The full budget can be seen on the SDRC website and it is worth reading the

Mayor's summation.

Wisdom prevailed in Council and Cherrabah Resort has been denied the ability to host thousands of guests on the property for music festivals and other events. The current emergency services would not be able to cope if a crisis happened on site, there really isn't enough water, there is only

one narrow road in and out of the property and it is a bushfire risk were amongst the concerns. The Deputy Mayor commented that the decision was a win for rural landowners who want to keep agricultural land as productive agricultural land without encroachment.

The owners of the resort invested a lot of money to have their application refused but they will be able to seek permission for events to be held on the property on a caseby-case basis Get all the latest news in the latest edition of the Daily News or the Stanthorpe Record, available where newspapers are sold.

Picture of Cherrabah Resort sourced from the Freetimes archive.

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Celebrate Soft opening NAIDOC with Mayor Pennisi The community is invited to celebrate NAIDOC Week at Whispering Gully Childcare on Thursday 7 July 2022.

Held at 5-7 Homestead Road, Warwick from 2 p.m .to 4 p.m., the free celebration will feature arts and crafts, indigenous painting, games, and afternoon tea with Southern Downs Regional Council Mayor Vic Pennisi.

There will be digeridoo playing with Leroy and Jahmarley, a smoking ceremony with Leroy, and traditional Aboriginal dancing with Jahmarley.

Although the event is free, RSVPs are required by 6 July 2022.

With live music and good food, Headspace Warwick is celebrating their relocation with a soft opening on Thursday 14 July 2022.

“Join us for this exclusive open door event,” organisers said, “including live music, nibbles and guided walkthroughs led by our staff and Youth Reference Group.”

The soft opening will be held at headspace Warwick, 58 Palmerin Street from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. For more details and to RSVP contact headspace Warwick.

and the district, but this week they hand over the reins to new owners Adelle Haddon and Cheree Grassens.

“We would like to thank you all for your support over the past 18 years,” the Wakefords said.

Allora True Value Hardware closed on Thursday 30 June for stocktake and change over, and the doors will open again under the new ownership on Friday 1 July.

NAIDOC street march End of an era in Warwick For almost 18 years, Beatle and Sue Wakeford have met the hardware needs of Allora

Goolburri Aboriginal Health Advancement Co Ltd is holding a street march in Warwick to celebrate NAIDOC Week on

Monday 4 July 2022.

Participants will meet in front of the Town Hall at 9:30 a.m. and proceed along Palmerin Street to a flag-raising ceremony at the Warwick Police Station.

NAIDOC at Mercy Community Mercy Community is hosting a free arts and crafts and morning tea to celebrate NAIDOC Week on Tuesday 5 July 2022.

Held at 113 Percy Street, Warwick, the event will run from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

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AG scholarships for women Krista Bjorn krista@smallnewspaper.com.au

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Soup night!

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he Jumpers and Jazz Festival's favourite soup party is back with Warwick Potters Soup Night kicking off on Monday 20 June 2022 at 5:30 p.m.

“Warwick Potters Soup Night is a must do while visiting Warwick for the Jumpers and Jazz Festival,” organisers said. “So rug up gather with your friends and enjoy a night of warm soup and entertainment from local musicians at Potters Place.”

Throughout the year pottery club members donate their time to make handcrafted soup bowls, each one bearing the unique craft of the artist.

“No two bowls are identical,” a Warwick Potters spokes-

person said. “Every bowl purchase will receive a complimentary soup that you can enjoy around the fire pits while listening to local musicians or browsing the member’s gallery.”

Guests will get to choose from four nourishing and warming soup varieties including Pumpkin, Potato-Bacon & Onion, Pea & Ham, and a gluten-free Vegetarian Soup.

“Please bring a copy of your ticket to be able to select your bowl,” the spokesperson said.

Tickets for the Warwick Potters Soup Night are $25 per person and can be purchased online via the group’s Facebook page.

Photo from the Warwick Potters Association. Photo by Cathy Holmes.

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COUNTRYJOURNAL Last week, I started writing a bit about my time as a councillor on Rosenthal Shire Council which is two amalgamations ago.

After deciding on a plant purchase, the supplier would deliver the grader or loader and at times shout the councillors lunch on the same day.

My next decision about plant was not influenced by a lunch, my view was if it could save the ratepayers a few dollars for the cost of lunch, that was fine by me.

With some much discussion about those sort of things now, I would question whether the lunch who fit inside the rules anymore as it did in the 1980s.

I always remember Pat Kelly, a former Inglewood shire chairman who moved to Avon Hills at Wheatvale, saying he wasn’t going to the lunch paid for by the supplier.

The rest of the council went but Pat went to a café by himself to do in his view the right thing.

Even though I went to the lunch, I had a lot of respect for Pat for his decision not to go.

Saleyards debate

There has been some complaints about councillors who sell cattle at the Warwick Saleyards being part of decisions about the yards.

Back in my day on council, Warwick, Glengallan and Rosenthal shires each had two representatives on the saleyards board.

If those who sold cattle or sheep at the yards couldn’t be

The Long Paddock with Gerard Walsh

part of something to do with the saleyards, you would have been struggling to find too many not involved.

The only one I can recall on Rosenthal council not being a seller or buyer was Evaline Booth who was involved with the Warwick Chamber of Commerce.

Bev Shelley was a buyer as a part owner of Shelleys Meats which had an abattoir on Washpool Rd. At that time, Rosenthal was predominately rural but Evaline and Bev represented the Rosenthal Heights area along with Charlie Evans.

at Rosenthal was the way a list of what a proposed rate rise meant to each councillor was prepared.

I wasn’t interested in what it

Budget

A week or so ago, Redlands mayor Karen Williams had an accident and was allegedly over the limit after celebrating the council budget.

I can never recall a celebration after a budget, the reality is even a small rate rise would be difficult for some residents so no need for a party.

I always had a view that if rates were going to go up, they go up a little bit each year rather than nothing for a couple of years and then 15 per cent in year 3.

One thing I didn’t agree with

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Cattle loss

I saw from 100 metres away last week two legs hanging in the air.

It looked a bit like a steer from the feedlot but I was hoping it was a log with some sticks pointing out.

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about not making much out of our current 30 cattle we are feedlotting due to higher grain prices and lower cattle prices.

We can now say we are definitely behind after one loss at a cost of probably $1200. Once they die, they puzz up but he looked like one of the biggest.

If we were short of roughage in the paddock, I would have blamed that for the loss but we had grassy hay and wheaten hay in feeders and some dry feed in the paddock.

One of the oldest saying about livestock is if you have livestock, you will have dead stock.

I am not sure of the ratio in feedlotting but my guess is we have lot feed around 200 cattle in the past 15 years and have lost two.

Legends

meant to individual councillors.

At times, I was a bit of a rebel at Rosenthal meetings and more than once voted with Evaline and Bev against the status quo.

That is not to say I was right.

In my 12 years, I can remember one time when the staff had a meeting on a Sunday and wanted a councillor to attend the meeting after one staff job was changed.

I wasn’t too popular with fellow councillors for going but I have a view that the most important people in a council are the staff and they need to be heard.

I was interested to hear former Adelaide Crows coach Graham Cornes speak about the late Neil Kerley this week.

He rated Neil as the legend of South Australian Aussie Rules along with Ted Whitten in Victoria, Johnny Raper in New South Wales and Wally Lewis in Queensland.

Interesting a player/coach from AFL heartland knowing Wally who is without doubt the most recognisable name in Queensland rugby league.

He also went for Raper ahead of players like Reg Gasnier, Norm Provan and Andrew Johns.

Picture of the 1959 Rosenthal Shire council members.

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Market finishes 7c higher Bruce McLeish Elders

The Australian wool market continued to benefit from the favourable exchange rates last week with a small drop in prices overall translating to a small positive movement in local currency terms as the value of the Australian Dollar waned against a stronger US Dollar. Overall the market finished 7 cents higher in an east coast only sale, with Fremantle again taking the week off. In USD terms the market was 6 cents softer, and 22 cents cheaper in European terms the market as the single European currency finally picked itself up off the canvas, and fought back to regain some value against the US Dollar. The best quality superfine merino, the very few lots available, were stronger, but those not up to spec drifted lower as Chinese demand in particular eased for the finer end. Medium merino lots found much more attention being paid to them for a change and performed quite strongly with gains of up to 50 cents in some categories that matched the traditional Chinese specification.

Heavier VM lots, or those containing other processing faults were discounted accordingly.

Crossbred wools although declining in number as usual at this time of the season struggled to just remain unchanged in price. Interest in this category remains subdued, with stock mounting along the processing pipeline, but thankfully the peak volume has passed, so less damage is being inflicted on price levels given the relatively low supply. The carding wool sector also continues to remain becalmed, with processors reporting increasing stocks, and difficulty moving the product along the chain.

Given the negative sentiment around the globe as a result of inflation, interest rate increases, Chinese lockdown inspired supply chain constraints and of course the ongoing ‘special mili-

tary operation’ in Ukraine commodities in general are falling.

As Tobin Gorey from CBA pointed out in his daily report, the express train of falling commodity prices is hurtling along and taking pretty much everyone along for the ride. At some stage the storm will blow itself out, but in the meantime, oil prices fell heavily for the week.

as a commodity, whereas merino fits more comfortably into the noble fibre category and is therefore treated as a niche fibre in terms of economic fundamentals, and is influenced more by fashion and high-end demand than macro-economic trends.

International wheat prices eased, as did Australian wheat prices, corn prices fell, sugar prices were lower, dairy was unchanged or a shade higher, and cotton fell heavily. Wool, still classified in some conversations as a commodity held up okay by comparison. Perhaps it is time to revisit the classification of merino vs wool, and talk about broad wool

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