ONE of our state’s leading stud breeders recently urged merino breeders to “keep it simple” with their annual calendar of operations and lamb, shear, crutch, mark and mules at the same time each year.
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This is precisely the way a farm business has operated through four generations of farmers and it gives a surety of family and business life.
Proponents of a different type of breeding operation propose a no mules, no crutch operation with a six-monthly shearing of staples that measure 65-75mm.
These operations would need to be flexible and allow for up to eight-monthly shearing but lambing percentages and general do-ability of adult sheep would probably improve considerably.
Producers who like to try new ideas are the ones who will most likely use a new approach.
Perthville fair
ONLY a few more sleeps until the Perthville Village Fair in the hall and on the lawns on September 10.
Site bookings are still available with Iris and Brian Atkinson on 6337 2049.
This is always a fun day with many stalls and great variety.
Lifetime goals
NEW Zealand farm management accountant Pita Alexander has kept detailed records of his farm clients from his long career and has analysed them.
He highlights the importance of setting lifetime goals.
He followed a group of 15-year-old girls and boys through their 50 years until they reached retirement age.
His records tell him that 28 will be deceased, 30 will be broke, 20 will still work full-time, 10 will be retired and living comfortably and three will be well off.
He stresses the importance of long-term financial plans and he accepts that even the best laid plans can come unstuck by unseen personal and business upheavals.
Laugh lines
- TWO old mates sat quietly at a nudist beach. A young woman strolled past without clothes and George admired the spectacle, nudged his mate and whispered: “Wouldn’t she look great in a bikini.”
- AS the Red Sea parted, Moses looked up and said: “Oh no Lord; I was just going in for a quick dip.”
- THEY’D been married for 50 years and the reverend was enjoying a cuppa with them at the presbytery. He said, “In all those long years did you ever think of divorce?” and hubby replied, “Oh no, Father, not me darlin’ Kathleen.” So father turned to Kathleen and asked the same question. She thought a while and said: “Not divorce, Father, of course not, but murder, bloody murder, many times.”
He highlights the importance of lifetime goals.
