Farmer’s Voice – Online Magazine
As a modern day bush telegraph Farmer’s Voice is an online magazine sharing stories, opinions and information of interest and benefit to rural Australia.
Australian Farmers are the experts of their own story and it is important to have a place where their voice can be heard. By sharing challenges and celebrations we aim to showcase the greatest assets in Agriculture – the people.
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5 Simple Ideas to Help Organise a Farm Office
Ultimately, an organised office is one where the systems put in place make the process of finding something simple - whether it is a receipt, invoice, stock records or the contact details of a supplier. I need systems in place to feel organised. I say ‘feel’ because...
Simple (But Important) Things to Remember About Coping in a Crisis
A friend recently had a farm accident. It has left him with some injuries which will take time to heal. It’s been a disruption to life as usual for his family. His wife is one of my best friends. The accident, and his debilitation, means she needs to continue to do...
Farming Wife – the little things in life
Some days you need one win. Just one little thing to go right for a change, and you’re whole outlook can turn around. It’s not always easy to get. On these cold winter mornings the cattle look miserable; standing huddled with the sheen of frost on their backs. The...
Australian Farmers: why its time for a new focus
A recent trip to Brisbane presented a few light bulb moments for me. As a member of the Innovation Tour organised by the unstoppable Julia Telford, I enjoyed many opportunities to meet and engage with a diverse group of people working in the entrepreneurial and small...
Farming Wife: The Power of Positivity for Agriculture
There are a lot of wise old sayings that must have their roots in farming; make hay while the sun shines and don’t count your chickens before they hatch! Here’s another one I’ve been thinking about lately. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. We all know...
Rural Risk Mitigation: Take an outsiders look at your operation
I know that insurance and risk mitigation isn’t exactly a subject that a lot of people are excited to think and talk about. Most of the time it is thought of as something you have to have and you renew every year without a great deal of consideration or fore thought....
Farming Wife: misconceptions about Australian Agriculture
I know what it’s like to be a city based person. I spent my first 20 years in Brisbane. I commuted to my office job every morning and finishing at 4.59pm on the dot every afternoon. The bus ride home was full of weary workers, staring out of the window on the way...
Farming Wife: life in the Australian bush
I call myself the Farming wife. It’s not because I see myself as an extension of my husband linked integrally to the farm but because I see it as a badge of honour. I have paid my dues so to speak. I’ve bogged the car 30 km from home with no help in sight. I’ve...
The Farming Wife: the Reality of Vegetation Management Laws in Qld
It’s been a big week. We have mustered and drenched cows, harvested sorghum and drafted off a mob of steers for the feedlot market. This old girl is tired to her bones, and feeling battle weary too after having to take on the chin the Qld government’s new vegetation...
Australian Farmers: its time to get strategic online
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticised anyway” Eleanor Roosevelt. In every moment of disaster there is a hope. 2018 will be known for many things. For Qld Farmers it will be a defining period of time as the reality of the changes made to...
The Farming Wife: An Insight into Australian Farmers
Western Queensland. It has a landscape, an aroma, a feeling all of its own. Our family landed there, and it quite literally felt like arriving on a foreign shore, 40 years ago. I remember we came on a hot, airless night in early December. We stopped the truck on a...
Australian Agriculture: The message farmers don’t want to hear
In a time where politics is increasingly adversarial, news is instantaneously delivered, constantly reactive and filled with catchy emotive and attention grabbing headlines, it seems everyone is fair game. Australian farmers, although innovative, resilient and...
Do you have an interest in fostering a positive narrative for Australian Agriculture and farming families? Please get in touch with Brigid Price at info@ruralresources.com.au