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No 706 - New Year's Day Club Notes (Free)

The free version of “Club Notes” for Monday, the XXth of January, 2026.
By Dwain Duxson - Ag Content Creator
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Happy New Year to everyone. Thanks for your support during 2025
Got this note yesterday from one of our original subscribers. I’d like to think we bend over backwards to provide a great service to our customers. This is what he said. “Thanks for the personal forwarding till I get the new card sorted. Not just a number at The Farmers Club”.
Ideas can come from anywhere. And sometimes we have to listen to the controversial people in Ag. It’s easy to dismiss the antagonists, but when they come up with a plan to back their rhetoric, then it’s time to listen a bit and put our biases aside. We have an example in a story this morning.
My old primary school just closed in 2025. Very sad, but a sign of the times. I was talking to a mate who moved to Marnoo and bought the Milk Bar in 1988. He said that when his family came to town, there were 78 kids at the school. We wrote a story about it today.
Aren’t you glad we aren’t subsidised like other countries? We wrote about it today, but it came with a proviso....
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