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Have you got any interesting photos that you’d like to share with other readers of Beyond the Bale?
If so, please email the image and a brief description to the editor of Beyond the Bale Richard Smith at richard.smith@wool.com, or you can tag us #beyondthebale on Instagram.
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SNACK ATTACK
Amy Rouse of ‘Marchmont Park’ at Leadville in central western NSW feeding a snack to her poddies on the property, snapped by her father Malcolm who sent in the photo.
REUNITED
Lexi Fishpool of ‘Meryula’ at Tottenham in central western NSW being reunited with her pet lamb in the yards. Thanks to Lexi’s mum Lisa for sending in the photo.
UNDER THE OLD GUM TREE
Lynette Fish sent in this photo of sheep under the old gumtree on the Fish family farm on the Interlaken Road north west of Oatlands in Tasmania.
FROM GLOW TO GO
Two very different photos from Grace Corrigan (@fairviewphotos) of Burrumbuttock in the Riverina of NSW. (1) Sheep in a golden glow on the family property. (2) Grace’s eldest brother Luke, who in 2022 set up a wool carting business Corrigan’s Rural Freight which involves on-farm pickups of wool bales and transporting them down to Melbourne.
This article appeared in the September 2023 edition of AWI’s Beyond the Bale magazine. Reproduction of the article is encouraged.