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Dec 3, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
With a smart plan and cheap tags, we could start to fund some real shortcomings in the biosecurity continuum, writes James Jackson. File pictureIt surprises me the NSW government thinks a one-off subsidy on the price of sheep tags is going to make them any friends with respect to electronic tagging of sheep.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
Australia has a few issues to think about, and act ono, under a new Trump presidency, says James Jackson. Picture by Shutterstock. With Donald Trump's resurrection, we are going to find out how this most unorthodox politician is going to reshape the planet this time around.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
Australia is flirting with disinformation laws that will principally police content on social media platforms, James Jackson writes. Picture via ShutterstockHistorically, rural communities have a well-developed filter for nonsense. For generations we have ground-truthed all sorts of propositions by using our social networks.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
farmonline.com.au | James Jackson
James Jackson asks how long can plastic use in agriculture keep flying under the radar? File picture. This week we have been shearing the dry sheep at the Ponderosa and I received a pleasant surprise. Subscribe now for unlimited access to all our agricultural news across the nation or signup to continue readingSee subscription options I had to go into town and get another bale of woolpacks.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
farmonline.com.au | James Jackson
The AWI model where producers can decide the rate their industry's research and development body is paid is somewhat unique, says James Jackson. File picture. As it happens, not all taxes are inevitable.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
Poisoning for pigs, dogs and foxes works, James Jackson writes, but literacy hurdles in participating in baiting programs have had a cascade of consequences. File pictureMy father-in-law was a man who had a deep sense of community service.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
James Jackson says one of the challenges with free range production systems is that chickens have contact with migratory birds that come from all sorts of places. The mainstream media coverage of the egg shortages has been negligently one dimensional. It reflects a complete lack of capacity of some journalists to forensically dissect an issue, free of ideological bias.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
James Jackson has been following the Lower House standing committee inquiry into the decision to phase out the live sheep trade. File picture by Stephen BurnsI've been following the Lower House standing committee inquiry into the decision to phase out the live sheep trade this week and some home truths regarding the RSPCA have been revealed.
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May 17, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Izabella Tabarovsky |Allan Stratton |James Jackson |Matthew Adelstein
I was amazed by how similar this classic of Western literature is to modern-day action movies. Oxford’s Professor of Poetry A.E. Stallings, got it right when she called The Iliad “the bloody prequel” to The Odyssey. In the chapter I just finished, the Greek and Trojan armies engage in a tug of war for the body of Achilles’ best friend, Patroclus, which takes the better part of twenty pages.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | James Jackson
In the last month James Jackson has heard of a dozen significant players making the call to move out of sheep due to cost related reasons .Picture by Elka Devney. It's pretty obvious for a lot of agriculture that costs are rising quicker than the increases in commodity prices. It is a classic cost price squeeze. Everybody in the supply chain is feeling the heat and the lucky ones can pass it on down the chain.
