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Why eating Y-bone steaks helps regenerative graziers survive the dry

Feb 24, 2022
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by JOE HINCHLIFFE

Two years ago even the weeds on Debbie and Rod Richardson’s farm were dying.

There was “pretty much no grass” on their 670 acre Running Creek property in the foothills of the McPherson Range.

“It was dust and dirt in most places,” Mrs Richardson recalled.

 “Even the weeds died … and the lantana, believe it or not.”

Their Sahiwal cattle soug…

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