CONTINUING wet weather has hampered market gardeners, the transport of livestock to saleyards and has disrupted shearing operations in many districts.
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No one would complain after many years of unreliable weather patterns and bob tail springs, but many annual operations are now running well behind schedule.
The weather hold-ups are causing a severe backlog of small flocks waiting to be shorn.
The services of a shearer with a self-contained shearing plant on a car trailer may be the answer for owners of these little mobs needing to be shorn.
Details of this service are available from Justin, 0499 866 522.
Merino musings
MERINO ram auctions continue to provide positive results. Some comments and thought bubbles:
* Renowned former sheep classer Stuart Hodgson reminds us to respect the great sheep breeders and classers who have gone before us.
* Adelaide ram sale brought a Roemakhita sire to Coddington Park at Yeoval and a top Moorundie Poll to Gullen Gamble also at Yeoval. Both these studs are based in South Australia.
* With our return to a very wet spring, will SA blood sheep produce creamy, white wool or something much more colourful?
Numbers game
SUGGESTIONS that the National Party could actually lose the blue ribbon seat of Orange would have seemed ridiculous if they had been made at the end of 2015.
Fast forward to today and we see the effects of the proposed local council amalgamations, shutdown of greyhound racing and the radical changes that formed Local Land Services.
When these issues are taken into account we can expect that the average swing of about 12 per cent against a government in a by-election may be exceeded.
Residents in country electorates like to see their local members supporting their interests at every opportunity.
I think that Scott Barrett will be an excellent Member for Orange.
Changing history
THE death of Orton Park producer Scott Richardson turned another leaf in Bathurst’s pastoral history as his ancestors settled at the Rainham property many years ago.
Scott specialised in rolled lawn turf and lucerne hay production. He was very well-regarded across our district.
Just for laughs
LOCAL kids had been raiding George’s watermelons as they ripened on the vines, so he wrote a sign for the garden fence: “One of these melons has been injected with Lucijet poison.” Next morning he found an addition to his sign: “Now there are two.”
Marriage has a really positive side. It teaches you loyalty, forbearance, tolerance, self-restraint and other valuable qualities that you wouldn’t need if you’d stayed single.
