The transformation

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By Dwain Duxson.

The transformation - It's folklore that Australia used to ride on the Sheep's back. With all due respect to the Wool industry, it saddens me to say that those days are a fair way back in the rear-view mirror. Hopefully, they will return.

As we mentioned yesterday, we are at the Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast. I find it very interesting that many of today's Cotton Growers were former Wool Growers thirty-odd years ago. Such has the transition been that all that remains on many of these properties is an old and often iconic Woolsheds. I also see welded-on Sheep people like George Falkiner from Haddon Rig and Roger Fletcher from Fletcher International here at the Cotton Conference.

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I spoke to Data Farming's Tim Neale, and he said that he can't count the number of Property plans he has done for Farmers who have converted their former Grazing Farm to Irrigated and Dryland Cropping.

We talk a lot about margin, and many of these Farmers have said the margin on something like Irrigated Cropping would leave any Grazing operation for dead. The establishment of the Cotton industry and the dawn of the Corn/Maize industry is where some of Farming's best margins seem to be right now. How can we make the best fist of the industry we are currently in, or do we have to follow the margin and look at something different? Reply to dwaind@farmtender.com.au

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