Getting the Upper Land | Episode 26

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00:00 Welcome back to another episode of Getting the Upper Land. I'm Melba Devlin.

00:16 And I'm Livestock Editor Rebecca Naj. We are of course here at the Sydney Royal. You can

00:21 tune in to Showtime at 7pm tonight to catch up on all the results. But in news this week,

00:27 the controversial biosecurity protection levy is set to be scrutinised by a Senate committee.

00:34 The committee will have a short turnaround to complete the report by May 10, with the

00:37 levy scheduled to begin on the 1st of July. Also in politics, the Land carried out a survey

00:43 asking readers to rank the State Government after nearly a year in power. They gave Labor

00:48 an overall mark of 30% on delivering issues that impacted the wood. Earlier in the week,

00:55 Burrawang Dorpas at Ootha sold to a top price of $20,000 at its autumn ram sale. The stud

01:02 usually offers older proven sires, but this year is in the process of building up numbers

01:07 and only offered rams to 14 months. Steers and heifers sold to a dearest friend at the

01:12 carport with a sale on Friday. Angus and Angus cross cattle made up 90% of the 7,040 tent

01:20 yards. Up in Gloucester, Angus heifers pregnancy tested in calf to the $225,000 Texas Iceman

01:29 topped at 4,300 at Maccas Beef female sale. The pen of six rising two-year-olds averaged

01:35 530 kilos and was bought by Sutherland Pastoral Company of Martins Creek. That's all from

01:40 us, but for now, it's time for the real star of the show, Oxley. Who the hell's Oxley?

01:47 Thank you, I hope you all are enjoying Sydney Royal. Oxley was not invited this year, not

01:52 that he minds, he has plenty of other things to do. What things you ask? Jobs around the

01:59 house and what not, you get it, Oxley is a busy boy. Anywho, on to some of the latest

02:05 happenings Oxley has heard. During the recent Great Southern Supreme Merino show at Bathurst,

02:12 a group of Merino Breiners were enjoying their dinner at one of the city's renowned restaurants.

02:18 The chef had put a lot of skill into preparing the dinner and as he approached the table,

02:23 he inquired of one diner, "How'd you find your steak?" To which the diner replied, "I

02:30 moved a couple of chips." Until next week, toodaloo.

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