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G’day Agmates,
Finding Your Way Around Agmates News.
You are on the Agmates News home page, we call it our Community News Forum. Below are headline links to:
1. Agmates Editorial written by Agmates Editor Steve Truman
2. Selected Agmates Community Members articles. written by our members.
3. Agmates Community Social Network
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4. Most recent comments / posts. The 5 most recent members posts from anywhere on the site over here -> on the right. Click on the blue link at the bottom of the brief intro to go straight to the article and scroll down to the comments.
Feature – RFDS Charity Auction
Young Western QLD farmer, author and Agmates member Jame McLean is teaming up with Agmates to launch his latest book and raise money for that wonderful cause the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Jame is auctioning a personally signed copy of his latest book ‘When Blood’s Enough’ on Agmates Trader with the entire proceeds going to the RFDS.
Updates: Click on the links below to read the latest and see the live bidding.
Agmates Editorial
The Agmates Community Welcomes Property Rights Australia
The Farm group Property Rights Australia is the be congratulated on being the first farm organization in Australia to recognize the Agmates community and utilize its media. I personally congratulate Property Rights Australia and their board on moving on from the ‘last century’ model of farm activism to embrace this new and powerful medium.
Click on the photo of Christopher Leeds to read more …..
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At last We Are Finished – Let the Fun Begin.
At last the development work on the Agmates site is finished. I know our Agmates members have had trouble keeping up with the constant development and I’m actually suffering from development exhaustion myself.I’m aware that many of our members are relatively computer illiterate. Agmates offers the best opportunity to teach yourself the new technology. The rest of the world is miles ahead of rural and regional people in using this technology, but as a group and with each others support and the Agmates platform we can catch up quickly.
Click on photo of Steve to read more …..
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It’s Disheartening Trying to Help Those That Won’t Help Themselves
Personally I’ll admit that I’m growing weary of doing all the heavy lifting with no support, financial or otherwise. Agmates has been a labour of love for me the last two years. At the end of the day, no one can help those that won’t help themselves. If we can’t get the support of the very people we are working tirelessly to help then we need to move on and concentrate our efforts on the commercial money making potential of the site. It goes without saying that if that were to happen it would be a huge relief to many people in positions of power in the ruling establishments around the country.
Click on image Steve to read more …..
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Why An Agmates Social Network
Agamtes social network is an online community that emphasizes:
* Traditional Family Values –
* Honesty, Decency and Integrity.
* Individuals members connecting with like minded individuals.
As such we insist that our members are real people. Not companies, not organizations, not phantoms, just real live people like those that you meet in person in your community each day. Your family, your friends.
Click on the image to read more …..
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Its Time To Support Our Food & Fibre Producers
If Australians don’t make a decision soon to actively support our food and fibre producers just like our manufacturing industries they will be be gone forever. Free Trade is a cancer that is eating away at our food and fibre producers. Its time we acknowledged the Free Trade cancer. Once we acknowledge it exists we can treat it. Maybe we have left it to long? But we must try.
Click on the image to read more …..
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Selected Community Member Articles
Bloggers versus Journalists – may the honest man win!
Agmates member and NSW farmer Sue Maynes writes on her blog:
This news, he states, comes from trained, highly paid journalists who spend their days searching out truth and facts, committed to presenting unbiased reports to the community, adding the element of interest without discarding veracity. “Responding to the publics’ right to know”, he propounds. “Quality journalism” he oozes. And he goes on to state that the rise of net media are part of the future, but of course, sadly, are open to that most dreaded of people – the “bloggers”. So I ponder to myself – what are bloggers?
Click on the photo of Sue to read more …..
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Algae is heating and Killing The Ocean and Not Farmers
Agmates member and marine researcher John Fairfax writes on his blog:
Farmers are being blamed for nutrient pollution runoff without sewage nutrient pollution being even identified or measured to determine sources of the TOTAL nutrient load causing damage. Wrong diagnosis is occurring and therefore solutions are not being implemented. There is need for complete science.
Click on Photo of John to read more …..
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My Story – Bobby Calves
Agmates member and Victorian farmer Rebecca Bailey writes on her blog:
I would have stumbled on agmates on my never ending search for information. We live in a small community and job prospects are very limited, my husband was retrenched in december last year and has only been able to get casual work since, as we don’t wish to move we need to find alternate sources of income.
Click on image of Rebecca’s children to read more …..
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Bluegums – MIS, Greast Southern, Timbercorp & Australian Ag Part #3
Agmates member Roger Crook has an intimate knowledge of the industry from its origins in WA and writes:
Landowners responded to the fear tactics employed by Timbercorp and the other companies fed off that fear.
Land and lease values showed spectacular growth as the blue gum plantation industry grew and grew in WA until it collapsed like a deck of gambler’s cards. What happened in the intervening years? In the fifteen years since the beginning to the end as we know it.
Click on photo of Roger to read more …..
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WHEN it comes to email scams, I’m a major target
It seems that way, after news items this week highlighted just two scams aimed at separating a couple of local residents from their hard-earned cash. Well, over the past month, I’ve had about 20 claiming to be from banks or financial institutions, which have had the delete button running hot.
But I’ve been a target since long before that. Hasn’t everybody with a computer, or is it just me sending out a big “sucker” signal when I log on?
Click on the photo of John to read more …..
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Surviving When Debt Turns Bad Part #4
Agmates member St Botolph writes: Here is part 4 -
“What options Do I have When The Bank Demands It’s Money back?.” in the 12 post series – Surviving When Debt Turns Bad.
Click on the image of St Botolph to read more …..
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Breaking Fox News – EPA buried study showing Global Warming Not Critical – Video
Agmates member JeffT writes:
Breaking News – From Fox News — Video
“This thing is Phony” – Assign it to the scrap heap.
Interview with US Senator James Inhofe on Youtube
Click on image of Video to read more and watch…..
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Barnaby Joyce on the ETS, the United States and Australia
Mr Rudd is today lauding the vote in the United States known as the American Clean Energy Act (otherwise known as the Waxman-Markey Bill) as the indelible truth and righteousness of his position. Don’t laud an American position if you don’t want to emulate the principals that brought it about.
Click on the photo of Barnaby to read more …..
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There are solutions to overcoming uncertain times
Agmates member Ross Newman writes: It depends on who you talk to as to the current state of Queensland’s and possibly Australia’s agriculture industry. If you listen to ABARE …. apparently Agriculture is booming. But if you speak with producers at the coal face, particularly graziers, the situation is vastly different.
Click on photo of Ross to read more ……. Note link is to the article at Ross’s blog on the Community site. You will have to join the social network if you wish to leave a comment there.
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One Year Of Wheat Deregulation – Reaping What You Sow
NSW Senator and Deputy Senate Leader of the Nationals Fiona Nash writes: Tuesday June 23 marked the first anniversary of the end of the single desk wheat exporting marketing system and the first troubled year for growers under the new arrangements.
Approximately 30 disgruntled Wheat Growers and their families attended Parliament House in Canberra in a rally to register their protest on the anniversary of the axing of the single desk.
Click on the photo of Fiona to read more …..
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