
Help others this Christmas.
As Christmas approaches, I just wanted to take a moment to remind you all that Christmas isn’t necessarily a happy time for everyone. This year we personally have seen a number of families suffer great sadness, for a whole variety of reasons. The loss of a loved one, breakdown of a marriage, injury, or sickness. For every one of those families, Christmas this year will be, in some way, a reminder of the sadness. A difficult time that they may not be looking forward too, an

What a pain!
What is the role of pain relief in the future within our sheep operations? Imagine this. I drop you in a room in Melbourne, full of consumers, and ask you to justify the animal husbandry/health operations that you undertake without pain relief. What are your chances of actually justifying your practices? The obvious one is Mulesing, and well let’s face it, a lack of pain relief is simply a lack of compassion for the animals. There is talk now within the industry around le

Don't get busy... Get Productive
If you own or manage a business, be that a farm, or any other type of business, you will no doubt have experienced “busy”. Busy is a bugger of a thing, because it generally is very different to productive. Productive is that awesome state that you get yourself into where everything is happening as it should, you are flying through your lists of things to get done, your mind is clear, and everything is coming together. It can still be hectic, but it works. Busy on the other