NEW Livestock Production Assurance regulations will come into effect on October 1 and Central Tablelands Local Land Services (LLS) has stepped up to the mark with well-presented two-hour explanatory workshops at Orange and Mudgee being very well-attended.
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About 130 concerned producers attended the Mudgee meeting and 70 were at Orange.
I’m told that the common-sense approach from LLS staffers was greatly appreciated and attendees now know the process and also realise that their completed Biosecurity Plan may be randomly audited by LPA from January 1, 2018.
Board chairman Ian Rogan chaired the workshop at Mudgee and he forwarded these details to Rural Notebook.
I hope many readers appreciate these details and I sincerely thank the chairman for providing them.
For further details of upcoming workshops, please contact your local LLS office.
Down to work
NOW that the dust cloud has settled from council elections, we see teams of willing councillors who look forward to lots of teamwork during the coming 36 months.
Bathurst Regional Council will hopefully move swiftly to install the McNab roundabout in Mitre Street, fast track the issue of CCTV in our CBD and spend many hours in planning for the handling of traffic overloads in busy times in many city situations.
Perhaps a great start may be to shift pedestrian crossings a long way from roundabouts.
Our new council has been elected to oversee all matters that involve Bathurst and district and I wish them every success.
We must take care that we don’t sit at home and criticise when we didn’t even attract one vote each.
Sadly missed
BATHURST and district lost members of pioneering families during recent weeks.
Pat Stapleton, formerly of Isabella, is remembered as a successful farmer and grazier, a valued member of his church congregation and a real family man.
Mrs Ellen Byrnes, formerly of “Daleveen”, Trunkey Creek, was a valued member of the country community; she and her late husband Horace farmed a large scale property on the Curragh Road for a lifetime.
Waiting for rain
OUR season refuses to improve, but we are a week closer to rain and we have been spared a flood.
Most cows are doing their best to keep little calves going and many sheep flocks are holding condition fairly well, with young lambs being surprisingly lively.
Keeping in a positive mindset while we wait for the rain:
- Thank you to the staff at Kelso Truck Tyres Mechanical for fast, efficient truck tyre repair on the feed truck at knock-off time. Phone 6334 4348; they have on-farm service.
- A lady asked me to thank the boys at Mitchell Batteries who rescued their year 12 daughter whose full-on music drained a car battery at 6pm.
- Staff at Beards Motorcycles who repaired a bike tube late on a Friday to help a lady.
Many thanks to the crew at each business. No wonder we love Bathurst.
On the course
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has forwarded an invitation to Bathurst Merino Association members from Chinese wool processor Narshan to take part in the First Australian Wool Golf Tournament at Riverside Oaks on October 3.
The day will include a game, golf cart, range competitions and two meals.
To register, please contact Richard Butcher on 0427 254 643 or Kirby McPhee on 0401 402 351 today.
Getting busier
THE six-week closure of the Perthville Bridge has sent a steady stream of traffic across the recently tarred O’Regan’s Road.
While this road was formerly named Perthville Road, it was a quiet gravel road with a couple of narrow bridges and not much traffic.
Suddenly it carries a lot of log trucks, semi-trailers, buses and four-wheel drive utes and passenger vehicles.
There have been several near misses on one extremely narrow bridge and the council staff responded with small signage right on the bridge that says in small letters “no overtaking on bridge”.
A proper risk assessment may require a quite different approach to this situation as it is causing great concern to many drivers.
In the blood
DEMAND for modern merino genetics is quite obvious as even the older generation look carefully at details of post-weaning weights and eye muscle depth.
The parent studs that embraced early maturity, fertility, mothering ability and carcase muscling are now enjoying the surge of interest that is so obvious at ram sales.
The great parent studs of Boonoke and Wanganella used new genetics from the small Charinga Stud at Marnoo some years ago and these influences are strong in the pedigrees of these parent studs.
Last week we saw the Kerin Poll stud at Yeoval pay over $50,000 for a ram with much Charinga blood in its veins.
Laugh lines
MUM and dad were on a train and following some heated discussion, he asked: “Is your seat comfortable, dear? Are you feeling a cold draft or vibrations and shaking?”
“No,” she replied curtly.
“Right then,” he said, “let’s change places.”
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OLD George had made his money in the furniture trade and a pretty lady smiled at him at a bar in Rome.
Because she had no English, he drew a wine glass and a question mark.
Success followed as he drew a taxi, then a table for two with wine bottles.
After the meal, she took his pen and drew a four poster bed and a question mark.
George said: “How perceptive of you; how did you know that I’m in the furniture business?”
