100 Years of farming
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The media release announcing the Rex Community Fare in Parkes is also attached.
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That doesn’t explain why, on the same day, other regional centres were flying much cheaper than Dubbo – cities such as Grafton, just $221.10, Bathurst $185.60, Armidale $409.81, Orange $198.25, Griffith $218.90 and Lismore $235.68. WHEN it comes to good, and resilient, farming families out west, they don’t come any better than the Wye family who’ve been battling droughts and floods around Nyngan for 100 years.
The Wye family’s connection to the 5500-acre Soldier Settler block, “Yetambah”, began in 1917 with the return from WWI service by Sydney Wye, who was wounded at Anzac Cove on April 25, 1915.
Member for Parkes Mark Coulton welcomed the opportunity to meet Sydney Wye’s son Gordon and his wife Nancy and the current owner and manager of Yetambah, Jon and Monique Wye, in his Dubbo Electorate Office this week.
“Stories like this one are such a fabulous part of our history,” Mr Coulton said.
He said the amount of work to establish a property like Yetambah, south of Nyngan, from “scratch” in that era was amazing.
Australian Century Farm and Station Awards National Coordinator Nanette Aitken-mcdonald said Century Farms is a unique program, collecting and preserving stories of farmers and station holders who have worked their land for 100 years or more.
She said Century Farms is a project established in New York State in 1937 by farmers to preserve the cultural significance of farming and agriculture to city dwellers.
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