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O R R I E D a L E Official Newsletter of the Australian Corriedale Association Inc Australian O R R I E D A L E Official Newsletter of the Australian Corriedale Association Inc. G.P.O. Box 75, Melbourne, Vic. 3001. web: www.corriedale.org.au JULY 2009 Phone: (03) 9817 6711 Email: [email protected] FROM THE we will soon be gathering at giving us an opportunity to PRESIDENT our annual meeting to discuss communicate the Corriedale these things in more detail. message with other sectors of Here is a summary of what the wool industry. has been happening over recent times. Update on the dark and medullated fibre test AAA CD is here! Last year, we took the A few weeks ago, the initiative to test Corriedale Industry Services Advisory wool for the level of dark and Committee of the Australian medullated fibre levels. In Wool Exchange (AWEX) April of this year, AWEX confirmed that in the 2010- decided to test every breed 12 AWEX Code of Practice, represented in Australia Corriedale wool could be (about 62 altogether) for defined under the breed code levels of these contaminant Brenton J. Lush President “CD”, rather than “FX” as it fibres. This enabled a few was previously. This means more breeders to supply that Corriedale fleece wool samples. While the results As I look back over the last can be branded ‘AAA CD’ have not been finalised, few months of Corriedale which will help differentiate preliminary results indicate matters, it is good to be able it from crossbred wool in the some positive news for to report that some much market. Originally, we had Corriedale wool, and when talked about matters have requested that ‘CDL’ be the results are finalised, we reached their conclusion, used, but AWEX preferred a will be assisting AWEX to while others are still very two letter code. With the educate our wool industry much on the ‘to do’ list and various strains of Merinos, partners as to the true risk new ones keep popping up Corriedales and Polwarths assessment of Corriedale all the time, sometimes in will be the only breeds with a wool. ways that are completely separate code. beyond left field. More information will come As winter deepens and we out about this over the next 6 (Continued on page 2) prepare to scrape the ice off months, but it will help our windscreens in Bendigo, identify our wool as well as CORRIEDALE NEWSLETTER – JULY 2009 ISSUE 1 (Continued from page 1) take it on board and be conducted an experiment prepared to make it work. involving Corriedale lambs Elders Corriedale This will again come up at and pellets containing a novel feed additive that more feature wool sale the meeting for discussion. or less proved it is possible to In May, the second protect livestock from acidosis without resorting to Corriedale feature wool sale Way Beyond Left Field antibiotics. was held by Elders. A full report is included in this Every now and then we field The magic ingredient was a newsletter. an enquiry from overseas combination of chilli powder, cloves and cinnamon that Thanks again to Elliot about Australian enhance their rumen function Lindley (mobile 0409 504 Corriedales. The article in and at the same time limit the 709) for coordinating this this newsletter, “Corriedales size of a single meal to below sale, the next sale will be go to War” is the result of an a certain threshold that may held in October/November ongoing response to one of cause a risk of acidosis. Since the success of this this year. these enquiries. It will be experiment Nick Cole and interesting to see how this Iain Macpherson of Five Star plays out over the next few Stockfeeds have been weeks, and as the story AWI on Corriedales looking at ways to unfolds I will try and keep commercialize this product. Over recent times we have you informed. Much attention has been been communicating with There are no doubt other placed on the ewe and lamb AWI in regards to seeing matters that will come up at stage of the cycle rather than what they were doing to our Federal Council meeting, the lamb finishing stage. For market 25 to 30 micron wool and we will pass on any a feed company to sell a lot that is not of Merino origin. of lamb finisher type pellets, information from that in the To that end, they have not three things need to happen. next newsletter. only contributed an article First, you need to have a for this newsletter, but the In the meantime, all the best shocking spring and summer CEO, Ms Brenda McGahan, for the year ahead. which means the lamb has accepted an invitation to producer has no alternative address our Federal Council other than to purchase meeting at Bendigo. At this prepared feed. stage, she will be speaking Regards Second, you need a high from 12 noon at the old Brenton Lush meat price and low grain Secretary’s office on the price to justify the extra cost Bendigo Showgrounds on the Phone: (08) 8598 5281 of purchased feed. Third, the th Email: [email protected] 17 of July. difference between store lambs and finished lambs needs be more than $40/head to give the incentive to set up HAVING YOUR Always on the go a lamb finishing system. CAKE AND Realistically for lamb The issue of a structured EATING IT TOO producers that only happens promotion system for every four or five years Corriedales is one that keeps In about August last year, which is too infrequent for me thinking. Not only on Five Star Stockfeeds and feed companies to build a what the structure may look Nick Cole of West Cloven like, but whether people will Hills, Camperdown, Vic., (Continued on page 3) CORRIEDALE NEWSLETTER – JULY 2009 ISSUE 2 (Continued from page 2) when a top-up is required. To ewes into 150 ha and make this system work safely supplemented them with business model around that the stockfeed needs to be pellets then he could crop the type of product. bulletproof in regards to remaining 600ha and after all acidosis and mineral balance. additional costs nett However, the main driver of $220,000 farm income, profit for a sheep operation is This where Five Star leaving him with$140,000 to fertility, and at lambing time Stockfeeds and their chilli reinvest into the farm after (May-September) it is extract comes in handy and drawings. unknown what the spring and in combination with a summer will deliver. Another properly balanced ration it is Five Star in conjunction with unknown is how much meat, practically impossible to give Glenormiston College are grain or stores will be worth the ewes acidosis. monitoring two mini-flocks at lambing time. The only for ewe weights, lamb certainties are that the more These two technologies make weights, lamb survival, wool live lambs and good doability no problem, but quality and worm counts conditioned ewes there are at what about affordability? after a 100 day period of feed marking time the greater beginning at lambing (June chance of a profitable year. There is much pressure to 1st ). So far the two mini- convert from sheep flocks are both going well However the fear of acidosis, production to grain and the higher stocked the cost of supplementary production due to better supplemented ewes are not feeding, the associated work gross margins. Already many experiencing acidosis or any and logistic difficulties of sheep producers have other obvious problems. supplementary feeding and succumbed to this temptation the risk of recovering the and ditched the sheep to At the conclusion of the trial investment in supplementary grow grain. Using the a field day will be held to feeding all conspire to act as previously mentioned present the results sometime disincentives. technologies Five Star in late August. Stockfeeds and Nick Cole Five Star Stockfeeds and think there is a way of In the mean time, Iain Nick Cole have been looking growing both sheep and Macpherson of Five Star at management practices that grain. Stockfeeds is available on if they overcome the mobile 0417 - 540 343 to objections might produce Using Nick as an example he answer any questions you win-win outcomes for uses 750 ha to successfully may have. livestock producers and lamb 3,500 ewes at a stockfeed end users. stocking rate of 4.6 ewes/ha. A cash flow budget suggests Two new technologies help that after costs, he makes on NEW SOUTH WALES overcome some practical average $120,000 from his BRANCH NEWS concerns regarding sheep enterprise from which supplementing ewes during drawings must be made. the lambing period. Assuming it costs $80,000 a As I write this report we in year to run his household, Southern NSW are still Firstly the “Cup and Saucer” this leaves $40,000 to waiting for some follow-up style silos produced by reinvest into the farm. rain. Sherwell Silos in Nhill cut Ditching the sheep for grain down the work and eliminate would possibly bring in The Corriedale was the trail feeding, bulka bag $180,000 nett income less feature breed at the Sydney transfers into 1-2 ton self- drawings, or $100,000 to Royal this year and although feeders etc. With a few of reinvest into the farm. numbers were down we these silos the workload can thought it was a great success be reduced to monitoring Our projections suggest that feed and calling the feed mill if he squashed the lambing (Continued on page 4) CORRIEDALE NEWSLETTER – JULY 2009 ISSUE 3 (Continued from page 3) with approximately 40 sheep judged by Tom Burrows from New Zealand and this was in itself a highlight.
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