Rachael Plowman
@waplow
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Farmer, mother, general manager of many things.
Kojonup, Western Australia
Joined October 2012
RT @simongerman600: Compared to 1961 we only need 60 per cent of arable land to produce a given quantity of crops. We are growing more food….
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Please RSVP: 23rd of March - Action day, Butlers Reserve, Scarborough
keepthesheep.com.au
Stop the ban on live exports.
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RT @Holly_Vet: Today at the wharf, I looked around & saw six incredible young women—myself included 😜 —working hard to keep the sheep indus….
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RT @MerinotechAdmin: The team at @Marbarrup were busy this week EMD & fat scanning the MA ewes + collecting their pre-joining WT & CS. Rese….
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RT @simonmaechling: The GMO that could have saved millions of lives. 🌾Golden Rice. It’s a genetically engineered crop designed to fight vi….
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Worth checking out- just to explore your own bias.
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RT @simonmaechling: In 2021 the Sri Lanka imposed a ban on pesticides and fertilizers. Sri Lankan farmers noted that they ‘lost’ more than….
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Demonstrating absolute lack of respect to WA agriculture sector; still reeling from the fallout of their ridiculous Live Export policy.
thewest.com.au
Anthony Albanese has refused to apologise for a comment about live exports that has left farmers fuming, insisting he was backing in the Australian beef industry in all its forms.
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“Greater sustainable intensification in agriculture is needed to feed ourselves without wrecking the planet……farmers need the social licence to use advances in agricultural technology….media should cover these issues without bias towards a ‘natural utopia’ that doesn’t exist.
Greater productivity in agriculture is needed to feed a growing population without wrecking the planet. But is the BBC’s editorial bias in favour of small-scale, more extensive farming discouraging evidence-based debate about sustainable food production?.
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RT @4FarmersBill: #paraquat & #diquat are under fire. The #APVMA is keen to reduce their use, I have heard; .Not on firebreaks.Low rates =….
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RT @mdfowler100: This is what we have been able to distill so far regarding the APVMA provisional decision on paraquat & diquat. We will ke….
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This is testament to the efficiency of our modern agricultural systems (as well as advances in distribution-like cold chains).
It's hard for us today to understand how hard folks had to work in the past to afford a little meat. There is a reason that eating meat was a once per week occasion . Source:
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RT @stationmum101: Maybe if the RSPCA spent a little less money on lobbying against animal agriculture they could focus on their core busin….
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I’d like to see this lighting on every train in Australia.
This video footage of the Puffing Billy’s Train of Lights from Gembrook Victoria Festival to help promote our federal train illumination petition. It absolutely CAN be done and it’s high time it WAS legislated once and for all!.Please sign the petition and help spread the word
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RT @WAFCWG: 🫵WA South coast and surrounds, have you got #feralcats? Please help collect samples for important #Toxoplasma research! https:/….
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RT @steve_noa: In 'Enemy' territory (Freo) with the wool buyers of WA. We've not called it an extinction lunch (@MurrayWatt ) yet. but f….
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RT @GrainProducers: The GPA Board is pleased to provide an update that Chief Executive @ColinJBettles condition is improving after he susta….
grainproducers.com.au
The Grain Producers Australia Board is pleased to provide an update that Chief Executive Colin Bettles’ condition is improving after he sustained injuries following an incident in the United States...
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RT @MerinotechAdmin: And we’re underway for lambing 2024! Every lamb born at the Merinotech nucleus is tagged and weighed at birth and has….
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RT @Meat_Watcher: May 2024 sheep producers survey has some startling flock change estimates in WA for breeding ewe and wether flocks. Down….
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