https://www.rugbystation.com.au/our-mission daily 0.75 2021-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/b70ed107-a942-44b7-a708-6fd43ce83451/PXL_20201021_214850185.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/8defbfed-aeb0-40db-8a71-196bb8b1d035/IMG_20180911_101340.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/aec92096-19fe-42c5-8410-8bd511a2719f/PXL_20201015_235233529.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/cbcd4fb8-2c5c-45a6-99b6-1d2a7cb397a3/IMG_20200408_075042.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/3d2abc12-2d66-4d0c-9a9f-999b820fdfcd/IMG_20200826_175335.jpg Our Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/12d2752f-b59b-4adb-b63b-39aa95388fef/IMG_20200103_100357.jpg Our Mission https://www.rugbystation.com.au/our-team daily 0.75 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629770136332-UV5FAXAX4FR8FUJUXVIR/IMG_20200321_101948.jpg Our Team - Michael Kelly Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629770180319-NGLY4TF7XXDQO10M89OS/IMG_20190524_140903_307.jpg Our Team - Belinda Kelly Biodiversity & Sustainability Manager https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629771317502-TBD4D7VWYD6CD45L1XH7/PXL_20210311_010734826.jpg Our Team - The Hounds Mustering Team https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629770615162-4OKC5PDSGFY8K7UWYOZR/PXL_20201221_003141478+%282%29.jpg Our Team - Georgie Kelly Livestock Manager https://www.rugbystation.com.au/video daily 0.75 2024-06-14 https://www.rugbystation.com.au/home daily 1.0 2021-08-24 https://www.rugbystation.com.au/our-practices daily 0.75 2021-08-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629772286878-63R4TJ7JGP6N2QU4NWWI/IMG_20200923_061058.jpg Our Practices - High Fertility Who doesn’t love twins and triplets! We’ve bred our merino ewes with Bundilla Rams, which introduced the Booroola gene into our flock. This gene leads to multiple egg releases and is associated with a strong mothering instinct. This means more healthy lambs are raised to maturity every season! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629775825266-Q2LGFM331M816KGFB675/PXL_20210729_012454400.MP.jpg Our Practices - Early Maturation More lambs, at an earlier age! We’re seeking to improve the maturation efficiency of our ewes by joining at 7 months in order to lamb at 12 months. We use electronic sheep tags to track weight gain and performance in our ewes. This allows us to optimise our grazing regime, determine the weight at which cycling begins and track which ewes consistently raise multiple lambs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629775601866-ZJD8RO9CWGLHTAKH469Y/PXL_20201103_194136478.jpg Our Practices - Reduced Drench Dependence For the good of everyone Our goal is to reduce the dependence of our flock on treatments which humans have introduced into the merino over years of selective breeding focussed on wool production. Through careful management we are able to reduce our environmental impact, whist producing a healthier, hardier and more robust sheep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629775674417-12D6RIU3NJ4ZDCBS3JDQ/PXL_20201103_011758600.jpg Our Practices - Natural Worm & Fly Resistance Through selective breeding Through regular worm testing and classing, we identify individual ewes that are unable to handle a small worm burden or are disproportionately susceptible to flies. These ewes are joined to terminals in order to exclude their progeny from the breeding flock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629775717234-OF1JKWWUR1RUY49C517B/IMG_20200916_065409.jpg Our Practices - Non-Mulesing Breeding a ‘plain bodied’ sheep The Merino was originally bred for a ‘high wrinkle’ to increase the number of follicles, producing a greater quantity of finer wool. Non-mulesing farmers are now looking to reduce that same wrinkle by selective breeding as it makes a ewe harder to shear and far more likely to get flystrike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629775868629-FV0OCNP38XH3VI05PY4L/IMG_20200918_055545.jpg Our Practices - Low Birth Weight/ High Growth Rate For easier lambing Historically, selective breeding has focussed entirely on the final weight of the sheep. Our ability to track growth rate over the lifetime of an animal allows us to select fast growing lambs that aren’t born so heavy that they put an undue burden on the ewe. https://www.rugbystation.com.au/our-wool daily 0.75 2021-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847902870-ZOUR0EX0L2QSQNRC1SP2/image-asset.jpeg Our Wool - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847903067-57HDPDJ6TWU40QPAQLS4/image-asset.jpeg Our Wool - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.rugbystation.com.au/biodiversity-corridors daily 0.75 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629937994732-JVR9M6071RRIA82TM6YB/IMG_0009+%282%29.JPEG Biodiversity Corridors - Our Commitment Each year a program has been implemented to increase the next generation of trees and increase the resilience of the land to overcome climate change. We have an on-going plan to support biodiversity, as we see it as the key to enabling nature to adapt to rising temperatures, falling rainfall and increasing frosts. The following work has been carried out and is now firmly established. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629949527594-AZ63I34QEE2C394A54O8/IMG_0035.jpg Biodiversity Corridors - Planting of Tree Corridors Thousands of trees and bushes have been planted, many in fenced off areas, to link up and add to the 15 km of biodiversity corridors. We have many trees that are hundreds of years old and these plantings help to keep them healthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629848312743-OSPGYTNMWXN8FYW39LOI/PXL_20210714_221220184.jpg Biodiversity Corridors - Building a Humus Layer Multiple species of perennial grasses that actively grow throughout the year, with their differing roots types and depths, support an increased soil microbiology. The residue from this microbiology becomes humus which increases carbon in our soils. This nutrient-rich soil supports both below and above ground biodiversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629848341752-I7BY24H0UCCZZDGAF77Q/PXL_20210704_231601694.MP+%282%29.jpg Biodiversity Corridors - Creating Habitats for Native Fauna Working with specialists in habitat rehabilitation, we have fenced off some grazing country to create linked corridors of native tree and bush species. This ‘network of highways’, allows movement enabling native birds, reptiles, marsupials and monotremes to live happily alongside our grazing operation. https://www.rugbystation.com.au/responding-to-climate-change daily 0.75 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629851603161-485NKNCKCHAD68EWII8X/PXL_20201028_073300723.jpg Responding to Climate Change - Change is upon us Traditionally, we have received majority of our rainfall in the winter resulting in safe spring with active growth and a low summer rainfall. During the last 10 years, we have been experiencing lower winter rainfall, drier springs and increasingly intense summer storms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629851719275-GAV1UXLX2PE0XFTX9QVQ/IMG_20200819_161300.jpg Responding to Climate Change - We must respond In response to increased storm activity, hotter temperatures, increased bushfire risk and more frequent late frosts; we have been adding more summer active grass species to our pastures. This will ensure that we keep groundcover, protecting soils from erosion, capturing rainfall, reducing soil temperatures and protecting the micro biology in our soils. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629939234827-8T92XXEAXZOKDZ306ZHV/IMG_9976+%282%29.JPEG Responding to Climate Change - By capturing carbon Our soil is naturally very fragile; by increasing the depth and diversity of roots in the pastures of livestock paddocks, we are increasing the habitat for the soil microbiology. Increasing the microbiology increases the carbon capture, as it is the humus created by the microbiology’s lifecycle that remains as stable carbon in our soil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629949619841-NS23VYV3S6MQV65TXUXP/IMG_0042+%282%29.jpg Responding to Climate Change - By planting trees We recognise the uniqueness of Australia’s plants and animals and that they have evolved for specific environmental conditions. Our wildlife corridors provide homes for many species of mammals, reptiles, monotremes, birds and fish. Monitoring occurs on multiple sites. These also provide a safe haven for predatory insects (e.g. spiders) that keep the destructive insect population under control and fertilizing insects (e.g. bees) which facilitate regeneration. https://www.rugbystation.com.au/regeneration-timeline daily 0.75 2021-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629849285135-7C6OCV04A883DIG6BLW5/IMG_20200526_160144.jpg Regeneration Timeline - 1989-2016 Our aim in these 17 years was to establish perennial pastures to build a strong humus layer and ensure all water leaving our property in our creeks was pure. During this time we fenced off many biodiversity corridors to protect 100 year old trees and extended these by planted new tree lanes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629938158747-UKJB4CW4XEEI4W8EAR22/IMG_0047.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2016 Looking to the future, we purchased 2230 acres of degraded land, using our experience of the benefits of establishing perennial grasses and tree planting to rehabilitate it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629938433955-S165AKUNMADINQY8Z1SI/IMG_0016.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2017 The program began on the degraded land, with water courses and erosion gullies mended and soil rehabilitation work. Six hundred trees were planted, one hundred of these were individually guarded paddock trees, while the rest created a new biodiversity block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629938262131-FLGMJHXJU685X5NKVZ3W/IMG_0027+%282%29.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2018 Soil rehabilitation continued with the benefit of rotational grazing and our expert agronomist who has worked with us for 34 years. Three additional biodiversity lots were planted in collaboration with the Superb Parrot Saving our Species experts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629939047786-MSX6NLWSFRHB62G4VK36/IMG_0056.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2019 On some of the newly acquired degraded land, we fenced off a salt affected area and we are now pleased it has 100% ground cover and is recovering. Additionally we planted 200 singularly guarded trees on the contours, which are now establishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629938519061-629RVSK1LJ7R9R7L415O/IMG_9996.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2020 Our aim to connect our corridors was achieved by fencing off a 10-hectare riparian corridor and planting 2000 biodiversity supporting plants. In addition, we planted 600 trees and bushes in three fenced off areas, protecting aged trees and further supporting biodiversity, including Superb Parrots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61230c7d61b714478bcdd055/1629938987341-6PF6YWHZ2EHO5XTNJCH8/IMG_0061.JPEG Regeneration Timeline - 2021 Our commitment continues to enhance all forms of biodiversity by managing our soils, pastures and corridors. 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