CINDY PEARSON | Agribusiness | Contact

A local grazier has taken to social media today to announce that he doesn’t need or want any drought relief at the moment because he identified that times were getting tougher over a year ago.

In a lengthy post to Facebook, accompanied by a picture of him and his young family, Wallace Dangerford of Dangerford Pastoral Company Pty Ltd out on the Dunespring Development road explained that though he feels bad for other farmers doing it tough he’s seen on the news – he’s not one of them.

And he’s proud of it.

“It [drought] forced me to re-evaluate my future plans, at least for a few seasons,” he wrote.

“So when we lambed last spring, I elected to take basically all of them to market. If I had a bit of pasture, I probably would’ve kept most of them but the early warning signs were already there,”

“I also put money away that I otherwise would’ve spent on something stupid like a jetski or 10 days in Mooloolaba over summer. It’s basically Longreach-by-the-sea in January, anyway. Not missing out on much by taking a year out from the Australia Day stripey shirt gang,”

“What I’m trying to say is, is that I don’t need any drought relief because this isn’t my first drought and it won’t be my last. We had some over the best seasons in living memory before this current drought started. That’s all I’m saying.”

Dangerford then went on to say that he hopes it rains soon.

More to come.