Drugs and Lambchops

Off The Husk

Zach Johnson

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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 went up to Edmonton and my dad was a deer farmer and started deer farming in Australia
0:10.2	and was kind of taking off around the world at the time and he became an expert in how to
0:14.6	handle them.
0:15.6	So, putting him in a dark room, central control room and using lights, he got the idea from
0:21.1	getting flies out of the house using lights of night and then they'd travel the world
0:25.0	in 1990 sort of lecturing us so we went all across the states when it was becoming a
0:29.7	big thing.
0:30.7	So, I saw a lot of what our deer and a lot of deer farms that were starting up there.
0:34.2	It was pretty cool.
0:35.2	Yeah, that's crazy.
0:37.0	Just white tails or?
0:38.4	All sorts.
0:39.4	I can just remember holding a bobcat, start with Mr Cippy, the police came and made
0:43.4	all these Australian bets for their beers out and they were supposed to get back into
0:47.4	the dormitories and my first ever hard core Coca-Cola there, went mental all night
0:52.0	up and down the hallway.
0:56.0	Does your dad raise white tail deer in Australia?
0:58.3	No, we've got fellow deer, so a German, the Germans farm, they have a lot of them but
1:03.6	they're just a small deer, they're beginning to sheep, mad at the animals, they'll break
1:08.0	your fingers when you touch them sort of thing.
1:10.1	Yeah, we can't allow the farm to be red deer and open things like that because we have
1:14.1	world heritage area so we're kind of industry had a boom and then it died and they asked
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