SC - Lamb!!! (and kids)

[Charles McCathieNevile]

Phlip said sheep were hard work...

Australian sheep farming is a fairly laid back (ie well suited to 
Australia) business. Some people get heavily involved, but most people 
get the sheep, crutch and dip them once a year, and shear them in spring. 
Sheep are worth a few dollars, and I have noticed that the people who 
ignore them and the people who look after them every morning get about 
the same results. THe difference is with farmers trying to raise 
superfine wool in grubby parts of the country - then they manicure and 
brush them twice daily (or so it seems). Sheep farming doesn't seem so 
popular in the north - for some reason people think cattle are better in 
the desert land. I think it may be because the wool is not so good. (It 
may be just my own mistaken impression)

Our last Prime Minister gained a lot of notoriety because he had a very 
large business raising pigs. But Australian Pig farmers are up in arms 
because they are about to get a lot of US and Canadian pork dumped in the 
country, which is much cheaper. (In Australia we are told that every US 
farmer gets about a zilliojn dollars a week to keep the prices down, and 
our farmers are all poor 'battlers' - an australian heartstring word. The 
Sultan of Brunei is one of Australia's great farmers, and another is the 
richest woman in the country, who runs a stable of racehorses as a hobby)

Charles Ragnar
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