Charters Towers KLR Marketing School

We had over 30 enthusiastic people attend the KLR school in Charters Towers, Nth QLD.
Jim Lindsay was in attendance and spoke about his experience's using the KLR System and also about his trip to the USA to visit Bud Williams and Ann Barnhardt.
This was the final school for 2008,however we have planned a school in orange and charters Towers early in 2009.Also we are going to host a special day in both centres for graduates who really want to make the KLR System zing !

Yeoval LSS School

Chook Kealey & I spent the weekend with Nigel Kerin, his manager Justin Dickens and his partner Amy Lawson.Nigel had pulled together a cross section of people from 8yrs to some older people,his agent Tim Wiggins,Nathan his transport operator,Warren from National Stockyard systems and many other people interested in improving their stockhandling skills.
Joint winners of the cap were Jim and Lily - the old hand and the young jillaroo !
Thanks Justin, Amy and Nigel for hosting a great LSS school.

Roma KLR Marketing School

We had 34 people attend the KLR Marketing school in Roma, QLD.There were people attending from right across QLD including 4 agents from Topex,Tim Scott from Beef Stockmarket as well as David Young who won the KLR Marketing school sponsored by Beef Stockmarket.Four people also repeated the school -
On day 3 we ran a KLR coaching day, where over 30 people attended - Rod and I really enjoyed the feedback,sharing and extra training we were able to share with the group - So take a look at the photos below.

Walgett LSS School

Robyn Walters and her team put together a group of 42 people for the 2 day LSS school at Walgett.We were able to work both sheep and cattle in great facilities.
Rod Knight and I were amazed at the organisation including catering by Vicki.
Thank you to every one who helped make this great event happen.

Future of Agriculture is in Good Hands

I was lucky enough to be invited by Di Evans from Agric WA and Kim Bassan an Honours student at Muresk university to run a Low Stress Stockhandling school for yr 11 at Denmark Agricultural College.Kim is studying the attitudinal change of people who attend a LSS school.

We had 18 students participate in the school and I was very impressed with the students attitude to learning a new paradigm.Denmark college is very impressive both in terms of facilities and staff.Enjoy the slideshow of the students at the LSS school.

Tassie KLR Marketing School

Sally Murfet organised Rod and Grahame to run a KLR Marketing School in Launceston,Tasmania.We had a great time with the people from Great Southern Cattle company as well as other people like Rachael and John Treasure and KLR Mastermind member Graeme Isles from Oatlands.Here are a few photos of the group.

Yakabindie LSS School

Doug and Lucy Brownlie hosted us for 2 days at Yakabindie, where they had invited a group of friends to learn about Low Stress Stockhandling.They run a BHP property about 4 1/2 hours north of Kalgoorlie.It was interesting to see how they have all their waters managed using solar pumps and traps on this large property of over 1/2 million acres.The group enjoyed themselves as they work all types of cattle from weaners to cows and calves.The evening brought it's own fun with "Sue" the bucking bull,where some old bull riders found a few old injurys.Thanks Lucy and Doug for being the perfect hosts.Nic and I had done over 2,000 klms for the week and met some great people.

Rawlinna LSS School WA

After only a day at home after the Emerald kLR school, I was off again with Nic Kentish to do 2 LSS schools near Kalgoorlie in WA. Rawlinna was the first school,after checking out the big mining pit at Kalgoorlie we drove 41/2 hours east. The Station is owned by the McLachlan family and is over 2 & 1/2 million acres.Attendees were staff from the company stations.The LSS school was somewhat international with visiting staff from Germany,England,New Zealand and South Africa.Thank you to Michael and Anne Simons for hosting us with a lovely dinner on the final night.

Emerald KLR Marketing School

Rod Knight,Jim Lindsay,and Myself were on hand to share KLR Marketing with over 80 people at Emerald in Qld.It was an action packed 2 days with people attending from all over Qld, including quite afew repeats. Steve Bennett who attended the very first school in NSW and has been successfully using the KLR Principles since was on hand to help coach people during the exercises.There were lots of laughs during the creativity exercise as you can see by the photos.

Malahide LSS School

Nic Kentish and I spend 2 great days sharing LSS with the folk in the Fingal area of Tasmania.We were able to work with both sheep and cattle on the large Tasmanian Station "Malahide". Attendees ranged from the station staff to independant farmers including author Rachael Treasure and her husband John.

Warrawagine - Port Hedland WA

Who would have thought after travelling to the other end of Australia to Port Hedland and then 3 hours east towards the Gibson desert you would find a Scotsman ? Bill's wife Sophie is the station cook at "Warawagine"(a good one too), Bill being her offsider.


Robin and Lyle Mills hosted me to run a LSS school on their station "Warrawagine" Port Hedland.
They run their large cattle station ( 1 million acres) with their son Geoff and his family. A very impressive setup so it was a real privilege to be asked to run a LSS school using their facilities.

Robin has had an invasion of New Zealanders for mustering this year and along with his son Scott's New Zealand crew, I spent 2 days helping them to understand how use the LSS methods.
Ann Coppin from next door also brought along her new staff.
Even though going from 8 deg in Bathurst to a 40 deg day at the school, I really enjoyed my time with the Mills family and their staff.
Mike the NZ Head Stockman won the cap.Enjoy the photos of the people, facilities and the landscape.

WA Trip to Hyden & Brookton

I spent last week travelling and running 2 LSS schools in Hyden and Brookton WA.
Hyden is where the famous Wave Rock is, so I called in and took a couple of photos.
At Hyden we worked sheep at Tom & Donna Lynch's farm before working cattle at Trevor Hink's feedlot.Stumpy won the cap after his fine turns with the sheep.
Then it was up to Brookton to Dougal Young & Ashe Briscoe's farm for the 2nd school with sheep.We had Domonique Blache and Alina from UWA, Dom being a specialist scientist in animal behaviour.Alina has had very little experience with stock but she impressed everyone with her skills and won the LSS cap.
Thanks to everyone who hosted me and made me welcome.

KLR Marketing School Orange NSW

On the 18th and 19th of February we presented the KLR Marketing school to 33 people from all states except Victoria.We had people come from Paraburdoo WA,Mt Surprise QLD,
Oatlands Tas,Mt Gambier SA as well as people from across Central NSW.
Here is a slide show of the KLR school.

West Meets East

In the last couple of weeks we had 2 visits from the folk from over in WA.
Ross Major (Number 1 ticket holder for KLR Mastermind)stayed with us and we visited 3Cell grazing properties in the Bathurst - Cowra area. Ross is farming at Williams in WA.
Then Evan & Robin Pensini from Paraburdoo visited with us and again we visited 2 cell grazing properties in the area.
Here are a couple of photo's of the visit.

Mortlake LSS school Feb08

Nic Kentish and I spent two great days at Te Mania's Mortlake property, where Lucy Gubbins had pulled together a lively bunch of stockhandlers.We had Dennis & Chris from Phillip Island, Ida from Sweden, Susan from Adelaide and Peter from Mt Gambier as the outsiders.The joint winners of the cap were Chris and Doug.Georgie provide everyone with an example how to work sheep,Nic dubbed Amy a natural with sheep.A Special Thanks to Emily for the catering and James for the great livestock, facilities and hosting the LSS school.



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Feedlot LSS School

Rod Knight and I ran a school recently at a large cattle feedlot.We worked cattle in the pens and through the induction area.

Exporters LSS School

We had over 20 people attend our first Exporters LSS school from Stevidores,Truck drivers,Feedot operators and Dept Ag.

Binalong LSS School
We had 2 great days working both sheep and cattle with the hosts.People travelled from Forbes and Mudgee.