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The Carnivore’s Dilemma
November 13th, 2012Possum skin cloaks
November 12th, 2012Capes of Good Hope
The Art of creating cloaks made of possum skins was almost lost. Now these ancient skills are being revived, using modern tools.
Chicken meat
November 5th, 2012Chicken Juggernaut. Australian Farm Journal. 4 part series. 2012
While 99% of Australia's livestock farmers wrestle with world market prices, the fluctuating Australian dollar and variable seasonal conditions to produce red meat as efficiently as possible, a tiny few of their colleagues produce the country's most popular meat: chicken. As Asa Wahlquist found out in the first installment of this special four-part series, they farm in the most controlled livestock industry in the world which keeps its business performance cards close to its chest.
The chicken meat industry is the unsung success story of Australian agriculture. Over the past 20 years chicken consumption has risen steadily to overtake beef as the most popular meat eaten. Last year Australians ate more than one million tonnes of chicken meat.
The Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF) claims that chicken meat consumption has risen to 43.9 kilograms per person, rivalling total red meat consumption.
It calls chicken the number one meat in Australia, and estimates 90 per cent of the population eats chicken at least once a week, and one third eats it three or more times weekly.
The industry expects to keep growing, but it is coming under pressure from volatile feedgrain prices, from competition between a contracting processor sector and from the supermarkets. And it could be facing challenges from the pork industry, which is similar in structure, and from the red meat industry which has been studying chicken's success and is applying the lessons it has learned.
Ask Emmylou
April 26th, 2011Emmylou has decided to set up as an advice columnist.
She says she has experienced being a neglected puppy, a street dog, a pound dog, a foster dog and an adopted dog. She has had to cope with a grumpy old dog (Stig) and the loss of her dear companion, Clancy. Currently she is an only dog.
Word has got out, and Emmylou has received a number of emails.
Vale Clancy
April 13th, 2011Our darling old boy died early in the evening of April 6, 2011. He had a good last day with two walks, the second including a lie-down in the sun with lots of pats.
He died naturally – no veterinary intervention – in my arms. He had lived with me for five and a half years and was at least 16 years old.
Clancy
Clancy blogs about Emmylou’s new hobby
March 25th, 2011Emmylou has a new hobby and Åsa is not happy about it at all. Actually, it’s not the hobby she objects to, it’s Emmylou’s obsession.
Emmylou and the fish
Communicating complex science in the era of Masterchef
October 10th, 2010Melbourne University School of Land and Water
Dean’s Lecture Series
Åsa Wahlquist
August 4, 2010
Communicating complex science in the era of Masterchef.
some sad news and some glad news
September 19th, 2010First the sad news. Dear Stig died in the evening of August 30, 2010.
And the glad news. It is official: Emmylou is the fastest dog in the park. She won the 2010 Wenty Park Maxi Mongrel Cup.
Watermark Muster, October 4, 2008
June 10th, 2010Asa Wahlquist
Tonight as you eat dinner, think on this:
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Stig’s blog
June 10th, 2010I am a big brown dog. I have long legs and big paws and a great big head. Åsa calls me Stig. I used to have another name and I used to live somewhere else.
Stig