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Off The Husk

Drugs and Lambchops with Will Bignell Part 2

Off The Husk

Zach Johnson

Funny, Offthehusk, Farming, Agribusiness, Fiber, Entrepreneurs, Fuel, Educational, Influencers, Ranchers, Farmers, Improv, Food, Millennialfarmer, Education, Comedy, Agriculture, Business

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Smelling Bullshit A Mile Off-Drugs and Lambchops with Will Bignell from Thorpe Farm in Australia. Thorpe Farm is a large scale commodity producers of wool and prime lambs running approximately 12,000 sheep on 2600ha. The business runs a 140ha overhead irrigation scheme with the primary focus on growing poppies, lamb fodder crops and cereals for dairy farmers. They have 85ha of flood irrigation growing summer pasture which allows us to produce lambs for the premium mid-winter market. Will's dad was a pioneer in developing deer farming techniques and the venison industry in Australia and was one of the first 4 people granted a deer farming permit.

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0:00.0

We bring Randy any place other than like a McDonald's. He will only eat French fries.

0:15.3

Well, he's terrified of any food. Like I'm not going to go to Mexico and sit on a beach

0:20.0

and order fish tacos from the dude that's running through the sand. We brought those

0:24.6

delicious. We're sitting on the beach in Mexico and these guys are already in fish tacos

0:34.6

and chicken tacos, whatever else. And I'm like French rice. I feel like that. You know,

0:41.6

the Mexican beach. You get the same order as my toddler every time. You messed up.

0:46.0

Correct. For loops and French fries. And then when you're back at the resort, you always

0:49.4

go to the kid section and even there. Yeah, and not going to feed the kids bad stuff. So it's

0:54.6

like chicken nuggets and well, chicken fries. Yeah. It's golden urine. That's a big part

1:04.0

of what you do. Yeah, we do. We do. We're about, sort of peaked stockings, about 12 to

1:13.1

14,000 sheep. Don't have names from all yet. The book's not being done. You share it.

1:19.2

Yeah, we share them. Middle of winter. We share right before landing. So we'll land early

1:24.6

September and we share in the depths of winter, kind of, it makes you seek shelter. So

1:29.3

because we got a lot of bush like after times bush. So if you, she or them, they've

1:33.5

still got to cover. So we leave a snow comb. It's called a little bit of wool on them.

1:37.3

And then yeah, then I'll go in a couple of weeks away from landing. Seek shelter. Have

1:41.2

their lands in the shelter rather than the middle of a paddock. Where we farm that works.

1:45.5

You go to a mile time and you can land in full place. The bulk of our marino wool, like

1:50.3

a lot of the good stuff goes to brands like Hugo Boss and Top-end Italian suits. And

1:57.3

my mediocre wool goes to America into corporate wear. There's a company that's been behind

2:02.2

for 40 years there. And so it goes into corporate wear. So like your woolen jumpers for big

2:07.0

office blocks and stuff. I heard that COVID really screwed up the wool markets. Did that?

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