Yednalue: Amey and Reuben Solly

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The Drought Resilience Podcast

Northern and Yorke Landscape Board

7 episodes

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Listen to honest accounts of the drought from farming families in Orroroo, Eudunda and Keyneton. This podcast, produced in partnership with Talking Livestock and Voice it, features four South Australian sheep producers who have battled consecutive years of drought. Each interview reveals how they navigated their businesses and families through the financial and mental hardships, including practical coping strategies such as containment feeding. The Drought Resilience Podcast is supported by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board, through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought

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Yednalue: Amey and Reuben Solly

The Drought Resilience Podcast

37 minutes 40 seconds

9 months ago

Yednalue: Amey and Reuben Solly

"I've never seen dust storms like that before. Even older fellas than my Dad, like 80-year-old fellas were saying, I've never seen it like this before. This is the worst drought and continual year-after-year drought." Reuben Solly

In this episode, you’ll meet brother and sister team Amey and Reuben Solly from Yednalue Station, 16 kilometres east of Cradock in the far north of South Australia.

Along with their parents, Darren and Debra, they run 8000 head of sheep across Yednalue and other leased properties and operate a livestock transport business.

Like many families in that part of the world, the Solly’s suffered consecutive dry years since 2018.

Amey and Reuben say the transport businesses, cashing in on high goat prices, and the kindness from other farming families got them through one of the toughest periods of their lives.

This podcast is supported by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board as part of the Living Flinders initiative, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

Links:

Northern and Yorke Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/ny

SA Arid Lands Landscape Board: https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal/projects-and-partners/projects/building-pastoral-sustainability-program

National Landcare Program: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/landcare

Talking Livestock: https://au.linkedin.com/in/deb-scammell-7839b06a