Pip Courtney

Thank you!🤩

Great Project - some interesting work being done to set farmers up for the future

Flower growers want imported blooms to carry country-of-origin labels About half of Australia's cut flowers are imported, but there is no requirement to add a label informing consumers of their origin.

Are the flowers in your vase imported?
Half the cut flowers in Australia are imported, but country of origin labelling (like we have for food) isn't required.
Meet the family doing something about it #grownorflown?

The rise and fall of John Norman, the respected farmer who became a fraudster - ABC News

My life! 🐾

Biosecurity matters … doesn’t it?

The @newyorker.com ‘read by an automated voice’ 😳
noooooo ✋ 🛑
Just pay 💰 journos to do it 😠
It’s called broadcasting
You are better than this

Using the Sun Twice: Growing fruit and vegetables alongside solar ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production

And here’s part 2 with @pipcourtney.bsky.social and Karin Stark, this time focusing on fruit and vegetables!

🍓🍒🍆🥒🥦☀️⚡️💪

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...

Solar Livestock: Running livestock in solar paddocks ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production

First of a 2-part series on #agrivoltaics by @pipcourtney.bsky.social and featuring Karin Stark.

Great to see the improved productivity from sheep grazing under the panels.

www.abc.net.au/news/rural/p...

What a read!

Interesting idea ☺️

Check this story out on Landline tomorrow @12.30
One for the rock doctors!

The legacy of Australia’s worst drought lives on in our bathrooms Some kids had never seen a puddle until the Millennium Drought broke. The decade-long dry spell sweeping Australia delivered more than cracked earth, it changed our relationship with water.

A really interesting read - brings back a lot of memories

Why scientists and a Hollywood star are excited about this Australian plum A plum bred in Queensland is showing promise in the fight against dementia. Australian researchers are testing whether an extract from the fruit can boost brain health.

My story for tomorrow’s Landline
Love seeing how R&D pays off (Qld govt earns $$$ from plant variety rights)

Cyclone meant we had to get out of the building
All back to normal now 👍

Company fined $300k over illegal dams in 'nationally significant' wetland A commercial farming company and one of its directors have been penalised for constructing and using dams without approval in NSW, including in a freshwater wetland.

Green Leaf Australia Group and director fined for illegal dams in wetland

What great news

Aerials reveal how close we came to losing 3,000-year-old Huon pine When fire maps showed a bushfire in Tasmania's west burning within metres of a high-conservation-value stand of ancient trees, there were fears for the worst.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

PSA:
Landline is back foe rhe 2025 season
12.30 PM every Sunday
It’s up on Iview now
And repeat is Monday’s at 1PM

#171 Pip Courtney Podcast Episode · Five of My Life · 03/02/2025 · 46m

Pick 5 things that you love
A book, a song, a place, a movie and a thing.
I played along!

Leading harness trainer suspended over 'systemic' horse mistreatment Leading Tasmanian harness racing trainer Ben Yole has had his racing licence disqualified for three years for the mistreatment of horses on his property at Sidmouth, near Launceston.

Leading harness trainer suspended over 'systemic' horse mistreatment: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-30/stewards-panel-finds-ben-yole-guilty-mistreating-horses/104878738

I’ve missed @andrewstafford.bsky.social posting about floofy Priscilla 🥰🥰

She was lucky to live on your farm 😞

Not me …I would have matched the bonnet

🙀🙀🙀

Thank you ☺️

Do you mind sharing which book this recipe is in? 🙏

Looks amazing 😻

A great in depth article - which I read as another rain storm hammered Brisbane
Love the description of winds as ‘slack’

Wild weekend to bring flooding rains, thunderstorms, heatwave for eastern states - ABC News

😟 😟 😢