Best pictures from the ‘It starts with agriculture’ campaign
We want to thank you for sharing your happy farming photos as part of our #itstartswithag campaign. Check out some of our favourites this month.
THE Weekly Times’ #itstartswithag campaign has hit the ground running, with some great photos and videos being shared.
Help us spread the message that food is out there and that it starts with agriculture, by using the hashtag on social media and sending us your photos to online@theweeklytimes.com.au
View some of our favourites for the month below.
EMU DOWNS
Glenormiston, VIC
Emu Downs farm manager Claire Templeton takes a selfie with Valentine the bottle calf.
SHAYLOE DORPERS
Kingaroy, QLD
Six-year-old Shayli Sloan rounds up her pet chicken Black Beauty, after one of the curious sheep gave it a fright on her family's sheep farm.
“We are business as usual here; the outbreak of COVID-19 has not stopped us being able to fulfil our customers’ orders,” Shayli’s mother Amanda Sloan says.
“The running of the farm is a family affair with Grandad, Grandma, Mum, Dad and the kids all getting involved.
“Each afternoon Shayli takes her little chicken for a walk in one of the sheep paddocks so it can have ‘play time’.”
KOOLABAH
Henty, NSW
Rosie watches on while feeding a mob of ewes due to lamb in June.
The Cotter family runs a mixed operation comprising sheep, cropping and hay enterprises.
“Our sheep flocks consist of self replacing merinos and first cross ewes,” Jennifer Cotter says.
“We use containment areas for supplementary feeding merino lambs.
“Cropping includes improved pastures of clover and Italian rye grasses as well as cereal and oilseed crops. We also produce pasture and oaten hay.”
AMBLESIDE PASTORAL
Foxhow, VIC
Millicent Gardiner, 15 months, helps fill up the sheep feeder with faba beans at her family's mixed farming operation.
The farm consists of broadacre cropping, prime lambs and a Poll Dorset stud.
ELLE MOYLE
Gazette, VIC
Red the kelpie is Dr Elle Moyle's dedicated farm helper.
The Hamilton district vet runs her own sheep and cattle operation on 180 hectares at Gazette.
TOM PERRY AND ANA PIMENTA
King Island, TAS
Lucas, 5, and Alice Perry, 7, inspect some pregnant heifers on their family's cattle farm.
Tom Perry and Ana Pimenta run 2000 head of mainly Angus cattle on 810 hectares.
KEVIN STARK
Lake Mundi, VIC
Jack Russell Henja and Kelpies Bonnie and Ivy take a break after a hard day’s work on the farm.
BALMATTUM AUSTRALIAN WHITE SHEEP STUD
Balmattum, VIC
Kristen Davey checks to see if there are any new lambs on her family's sheep stud.
“Our goal is to keep improving the breed to Australian White sheep standards, but also improve on temperament and reach total shedding potential,” she says.
“Potential clients have shown great interest in the breed, especially those with a small hobby farm supplying their own meat for the table.”
ROMSDALE PARK
Irrewillipe, VIC
Fourteen-year-old Thomas Riches is catching bull calves to be weighed at his family's farm.
“Tom has been following the hashtag while he is not at school,” says his mother Paula.
“It is an awesome way of him seeing different farms and learning lots!"
FLAVORITE
Warragul, VIC
Tomato growers Edward, Gabrielle and Chris Millis at Flavorite’s glasshouse in Warragul, Victoria.
“In these difficult times, we are still growing, packing and ensuring all the supermarkets and green grocers have good quality and great tasting fresh fruit and vegetables for you to eat,” they say.
“Please buy fresh fruit and vegetables grown locally and support Australian farmers like us, who are working hard to get food on your table.
“From our family at Flavorite to your families at home, keep safe, eat fresh and stay healthy."
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