David Palmer
Our speaker for Stock and Land on Tuesday 5 March at 10 am will be Dookie cropping expert John Petschak. His family have more than a century’s history in the area.
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At our first session on Tuesday 6 January, fifth-generation Baddaginnie farmer Rodney Cook took us through his extensive family history in the area dating back to the 1870s, as well as his farming experiences. In the 1870s and 1880s, Ned Kelly used to regularly “borrow” a grey horse from their farmyard and return it some time later. About four famous sportsmen have hailed from Baddaginnie including cricketer Merv Hughes, whose father taught at the school. Rodney initiated a farm based sheep insemination program, inseminating his flock in the 1980s using rams borrowed from the Australian Merino Society. He achieved an acceptable 64 percent conception rate and huge increases in wool and sheep quality. The superior genes meant fibre diameter of their wool dropped two microns, worth about an extra $1per micron per kilogram. Rodney said that led to his best wool auction price yet of 1970c/kg a few years ago and although the auction market has since sagged somewhat, he has vowed to keep going until he gains 2000c/kg. Our speaker for Stock and Land on Tuesday March 5 at 10am will be Dookie cropping expert John Petschak. His family have more than a century’s history in the area.
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About 'Stock and Land'Are you a regular watcher of Landline, a reader of Country News, Stock and Land or The Weekly Times? Did you grow up on a farm, are you still on the farm, are you engaged in agribusiness, or did you downshift into Benalla? Perhaps you studied/taught food and agriculture related courses or worked in an area related to agriculture? Or perhaps, like most of us, you are interested in where food comes from. Meeting Times1st Tuesday of the month 10 am to 12 midday
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