Planning the key to grower Ian Arney s work-life balance with farm and family
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Thanks to better planning, Ian Arney is spending more time with his family.
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American President Dwight D Eisenhower said Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil and you re a thousand miles from the corn field .
Mixed grower Ian Arney from Millewa, near Mildura, has both farm and pencil. But it still does not look easy. I actually spend quite a bit more time planning what I m doing these days, and actually putting it out in writing, Mr Arney said.
Shearing big rams in futuristic mobile trailer
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Rams, due to their size, can be difficult to control during the shearing process.
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Mobile ram shearing may be the future of the wool industry, according to a Victorian livestock contractor who specialises in shearing big sheep in a futuristic trailer.
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The futuristic trailer helps to keep big rams calm during shearing
The trailer also saves the shearer s back when handling large animals
Mildura s Vincent Madden said he was turning back farm jobs due to high demand. We re flat stick, we literally can t keep up, he said.