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Farm Tender Daily - All the news from Wednesday, the 7th of August, 2024.

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By Dwain Duxson

From Wool to Cotton - It's folklore that Australia used to ride on the Sheep's back. With all due respect to the Wool industry, it saddens me to say that those days are a fair way back in the rear-view mirror.

As we mentioned yesterday, we are at the Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast. I find it very interesting that many of today's Cotton Growers were former Wool Growers thirty-odd years ago. Such has the transition been that all that remains on many of these properties is an old and often iconic Woolsheds. I also see welded-on Sheep people like George Falkiner from Haddon Rig and Roger Fletcher from Fletcher International here at the Cotton Conference.

I spoke to Data Farming's Tim Neale, and he said that he can't count the number of Property plans he has done for Farmers who have converted their former Grazing Farm to Irrigated and Dryland Cropping.

We talk a lot about margin, and many of these Farmers have said the margin on something like Irrigated Cropping would leave any Grazing operation for dead. The establishment of the Cotton industry and the dawn of the Corn/Maize industry is where some of Farming's best margins seem to be right now. How can we make the best fist of the industry we are currently in, or do we have to follow the margin and look at something different? Reply to [email protected]

The Farmers Club headlines - Our 3 topics tomorrow are:
1) Is Corn the next big industry in Australian Ag?
2) The 3rd part service provider to the 1200 Cotton Farmers is thriving.
3) Straw’s most lucrative use hasn’t been discovered yet
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DelayPay helping Hay Traders - Gration Transport, one of the largest Hay carting companies in Australia, got to a point where they were owed significant funds from customers and they had to make the decision that the hay had to be paid for before it came off the Truck. Read here to see how, by using DelayPay, they got the security of knowing the money was coming in, and the customers got their Hay while waiting for their income to come in.

Today's Trends - Sales trends included Urea, Mower Conditioner, Soft Hands, Lamb Marking Cradle. Farm Trucks, Lucerne Hay, Lick Feeders, Utes, Groupers, Bale Grabs, Barley Hay, Ewes, Bale Wrapper, Barley Straw, and Safflower Seed

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Dwain Duxson
P - 0427 011 900
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