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G’day Agmates. It’s overcast and cool here. Yesterdays top only hit 28 degrees, that’s 3 degrees under the long term average. We actually had jumpers on last night.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone :  A trough over QLD and NSW is causing thunderstorms. A tropical low and the monsoon are generating heavy showers and storms over the Top End. Onshore winds are generating patchy showers along the southeast QLD coast. Warm easterly winds for central and Western Australia.

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G’day Agmates. finally we have a resolution to the new commenting software. In the finish we abandoned what we were trying to do and have gone with the wordpress owned intensedebate software.  It’s being installed as I write. I’ll blog about the features shortly.

So I’ll post this forum each day and you can use it to start your own topics, post links etc. I’ll keep an eye on what you posting and if its something I want to blog about I’ll pick it up from here. So if you see something, blog it here.

will continue to post the quick links of interesting stuff, news etc that I see that you may find interesting and want to write about.

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Well Done Steve | Thomas Multimedia : Just a quick thanks here to Agmates member and IT guru Steve Thomas for all the work he has done this week sorting out the upgrade of the comments section. Steve is a brilliant seb guy. If you are ever looking for someone to build you a site or upgrade your existing site he’s the man. A dead set Aussie, Country boy and rabid hawks supporter. The link above is to his business web site – check it out.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A trough over QLD is causing showers and isolated thunder. A tropical low and the monsoon are generating heavy showers and storms over the Top End. Onshore winds are generating patchy showers along the NSW north coast. Warm easterly winds for central and Western Australia

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G’day Agmates. Overcast and cool here today. A few light showers.

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Grain record tipped for Geraldton | The west.com : Geraldton farmers are headed for a record grain harvest after last year’s near wipeout, according to figures released by CBH yesterday.This year’s yield is expected to be five times bigger than last year’s. The harvest, currently 2.56 million tonnes, was expected to pass the 2005-06 record of 2.8 million tonnes.

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Beef inquiry a welcome sign | The west.com : The WA beef industry will go under review in the hope of rescuing the local market which continues to languish while eastern States producers reap the rewards of escalating prices.

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Growers hold out for more | Sunraysia Daily : MALLEE grain farmers are refusing to give up their grain until prices improve.After a dismal harvest and a year of high fertiliser, chemical and fuel costs, farmers say they cannot afford to sell their wheat at the prices being offered.

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Enhanced Blog Software | Thomas Multimedia : Well it did not happen yesterday. Agmates IT guru Steve Thomas is having a frustrating time trying to get the bugs out of the new program. If you happened to see for about 15 minutes yesterday it was up, except that all of the existing comments did not show. So we pulled it back down again. Steve is not celebrating this one yet. Maybe today, he’ll get a breakthrough.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A trough over QLD and NSW is causing isolated showers and storms. The monsoon is generating heavy rain and storms over the tropics. Strong westerly winds are causing showers in TAS, some wintry over high ground. Hot, dry easterly winds are keeping southern SA and southern WA dry.

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G’day Agmates. Welcome to the first Wednesday of 2009. Here is a rundown of what is happening today on the Agmates community site.

Enhanced Blogging Software | Thomas Multimedia : Sometime today we are expecting to launch a whole new software program to enhance your blogging experience. Agmate Steve Thomas is our IT guru come Hawke’s tragic [pictured]. He is in the throws of finishing his handy work off  for the launch. You will be able to do heaps of cool stuff like upload your own photos & videos and a whole raft of new features that will make your blogging even more enjoyable.

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200 Cows & Calves For sale | Agmates : Agmates members Glenn and Natalie Williams from up at Jericho in North west QLD listed 200 Santa cows and calves for sale last night. It’s good to see the community members using the Agmates Trader facility to let the community know what they have for sale.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone: A trough over QLD and NSW is causing isolated showers and storms. A tropical low and the monsoon are generating widespread rain and thunder over the Top End. Strong westerly winds are causing isolated showers for TAS and western VIC. Hot northwesterly winds in the east.

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G’day Agmates. Just got the latest newsletter out, so I thought I’d post this before getting a few hours sleep.

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Monsoon Rains in NQ | Ross Newman Mareeba : From yesteday Forum – The monsoon is defintely here on the Tablelands. Until this morning we have recorded 230mm for the first five days of the year, and we are getting another heavy down pour now. Hopefully this will lift the spirits of most northern producers. I saw photos from the Barkly Tableland with lakes everywhere, a massive constrast to the dust bowl it was only several months ago.

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BOM Releases Annual Climate Statement | The Australian : A LA Nina weather pattern pushed temperatures down in 2008, with the latest climate data showing it was the coldest year since 2001… was Australia’s 14th warmest year on record … the first year since 1995 when NSW didn’t get a temperature above 45C”. Sydney had its coolest year since 1995 … Rainfall was close to average for Australia,

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A monsoon low and trough are causing heavy rain and storms in the tropics. Another trough in the east is causing storms in western QLD. A heat low in the WA Pilbara is drawing hot easterly winds to the west coast. A weak high is keeping skies mostly clear across southern states.

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G’day Agmates. Still overcast and cloudy here. Quiet Cool. I think we might have a real treat in store for you today?? Just waiting on word from our IT Guru Steve (Thomas). Stay tuned.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A monsoon low over the north is causing heavy rain and storms, extending to east QLD as the monsoon trough dips south. Another trough in the west is causing rain and isolated storms for western WA and the Pilbara. A broad ridge of is keeping skies mostly clear in the south.

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Good morning Agmates! OK,  got heaps for you today? Beautiful day here yesterday – 2mm of rain and only 29 degrees top temp.

Did you see the gorgeous puppies listed for sale yesterday. My Princess reckons they are so beautiful she’d buy the lot. Just as well they are in Canberra (Queanbeyan). Check out the photos they are just so beautiful. Well done Annette Schneider for the great photos and thank you for supporting the Agmates community with your advertising.

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12.20pm
Fighting fire with farmers | The Land : David Fox said their involvement with the RFS was “just part and parcel of being a farmer”. David,  joined in 1980 when he returned to the family farm, “Gladlea”, after finishing school. His father, Bun (Harold), has been a member of the service for more than 50 years.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A monsoon low over the north is causing heavy rain, extending to east QLD as the monsoon trough dips south. Other troughs are forcing hot air over the interior and triggering isolated storms near the WA/SA border. A ridge is directing warmer easterly winds over the southeast.

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G’day Agmates. Light rain here (Gympie QLD) most of yesterday. We ended up with just on 10mm of rain. Still overcast and showering. Did you get any rain?

Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A high is bringing clear skies and light winds to the southeast, leading to an unseasonably cold morning. A monsoon low over the north is causing heavy rain. The rain extends to southeast QLD along a trough.

A second trough is drawing hot air from the interior to inland WA.

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G’day Agmates. Have been busy this morning responding to emails etc. It’s raining here today and much cooler than yesterday. At Gympie where I live, it hit 40 degrees celcius yesterday.

Must admit that I did not notice it in the air conditioning but when I went outside I saw that Neo [pictured] was really struggling in the heat.

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4pm
Council Rejects 10,000 Head Sheep Feedlot | Ballarat Courier : The Pyrenees Shire refused to grant a permit for the proposed facility in Crowlands after it failed to satisfactorily meet planning requirements. The development is joint project between farmer Perry Richards and Melbourne-based company Australian Lamb Co.  There were three objections to the plan, which Mayor Cr Robert Vance said would hold up to 10,000 head of sheep.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : Unseasonably cold southwesterly winds behind a front are bringing showers to southern VIC and TAS. A monsoon low is deepening over the north, causing heavy rain and storms. Troughs are drawing hot winds from the interior to both the east and west coasts.

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Happy New Year Agmates. That feels a bit weird writing 2009. Gosh the first decade of the 21st century is almost over. Does not seem that long ago that we were all living in fear of the Y2K bug at the turn of the millennium LOL.

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3.21pm
Beef For Cars | The Age : Of all the weird trade deals in Australia’s long mercantile history, probably none came close to the 1978 scheme to swap 7,000 tonnes of Aussie beef and offal for 2,000 Alfa Romeo cars. Cabinet papers for 1978 – released by the national Archives of Australia – reveal the government of Malcolm Fraser seriously considered going ahead with the plan.

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Today’s Weather | Weather Zone : A cold front is causing showers and strong winds in TAS, VIC and southern SA, and some mountain snow in TAS.

A monsoon trough is generating heavy showers across the tropics and storms. A high is causing clear skies over southern WA, SA and NSW.

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