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@em_ayliffe

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2020.21 Young Farmer of the Year. 2020 Adama Chris Lehmann Trust Young Achiever.Director Summit Ag.Founder Yacker App. Agronomist. Farmer

Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales
Joined September 2015
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@em_ayliffe
Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Well a tamed down graduation care of Rona, but a celebration all the same. After 6 years finally received my Master of Science in Agriculture! 🍾 Thanks to UNE, to my family and friends and shoutout to @CraigNewham who got off the tractor to take this picture 😂💙
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
We finally got a bloody harvest! Only taken 3 seasons but finally were getting something for our hard work 🙌 #thisisfarming #droughtbreaker #gleesons #harvest2020 @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Finally. Canola coming off! Was a bit of a worry there if the rain would give us this opportunity but here we are 🖤
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Emma Ayliffe
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I love guiding/teaching the next generation of Ag superstars but today I got to start the greatest education of my life, introducing Cam Darby to crop checks, 13 days new and the beginning of a lifetime of adventures #son #ihopehelikesag #nextgen #windrowtiming
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
You know you’ve made it when when @pipcourtney tweets about you! What a day 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Pip Courtney
3 years
Young farmer of the year Emma Ayliffe @em_ayliffe tells @Warwick_Long for every ag graduate there are FOUR jobs 4!!! @ABCRural #foty @KathSully @abclandline
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Sooooo close….hopefully the rain forecast is kind 🙏🏽
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
46mm on our little patch of paradise, dams full (thank god) and should have green grass in time for lambing. Takes the weekly total 60mm. @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
The icing on the farm, quite literally…
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Down she goes
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Forecast 2mm, Mother Nature lol. Hope my canolas have their diving gear 🌱 🌧 🚁
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
The Moby barley is winning, I am standing.... we had a little left we ran out sent too some oats. Learning, needs to be grazed 😂😂
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
When you have been sitting on a secret...super thrilled to be announced a finalist. Thanks to the fab @FAotC 😱🤭🍻
@YouthVoicesYFC
Young Farming Champions
3 years
Congratulations Young Farming Champion @em_ayliffe finalist in @KondininGroup @ABCRural Young Farmer of the Year Awards sponsored by @maccas
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Canola at 1 Emma high, bring on Some wet stuff #agrolyf @summit_ag_consulting
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Truly blessed! Thanks to Lake and Tulli for excepting me into the community! Thanks to the beautiful souls who nominated me (you know who you are xx). You are a product of you community, and I have a bloody great one!! ❤️ @summitagconsult
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
The house is a mess, which I feel like reflects life at the moment, I feel less then productive but I am grateful to have made it home in time for a sunset snap & beer to celebrate 2 years a farm owner that’s about as close to a pub debrief as I’m going to get 😭🤪🍻 @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Ever since I moved here I have been told that rain on the show weekend usually is a good omen for a reasonably good finish. No show with covid, but Hughey certainly delivered!
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Hallelujah!!!! Master Degree ✅✅✅✅✅
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
God love Hughy! Might have to go and have a 🍺 to celebrate!
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
And that’s a wrap on the canola for 2021 just in time for rain! 👏👏🎉 now we wait for the wheat…
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Morning spent moving sheep to higher ground after 46mm in a storm last night and 119mm for the year has meant part of our place in now underwater. What a start to the year! ⛈🐑🚤🥴
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
We are away! 13 days post rainfall and looking good considering challenging conditions 🙌🏻 @SouthernValleys @CottonAustralia @CottonResearch
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
How times have changed! What a great way to start the winter cropping program! Tipped out 55mm for the last 3 days. Got to work out how to get lambs on a truck Monday but a good problem to have ⛈⛈
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Emma Ayliffe
5 months
Crops away feat. Upset Cam because I wouldn’t let him eat the dirt 😂
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Aerial crop inspections are literally the best this going to get a good idea of what’s going on. From fert trials to canola variety changes, machine issues to crop consistency the air is the place to be. Lucky I have a neighbour with a pretty cool toy 🚁
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Well, header hasn’t come out the shed and my the looks of this we may as well fucking leave it there.
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Definition of heartbreaking…this was Cotton near Hay, NSW. #hailassessor #cotton22
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Crops coming up, lambs hitting the ground, another inch of rain! What a start ❤️🌧👌🏼🌱🌾🐏🐑👩🏼‍🌾
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Them new bullbar feels! Merry Christmas 🎄 to us @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
If you could do a girl a favour and take 5 to throw me a vote for People Choice Award for the 7News First National Young Achiever Awards @NSW_ACT_YAA
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Little rows of perfection 👌🏼🌧🌱
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Checking out water levels on the Lachlan. Can’t even get to the actual river as all the creeks are running full noise, this is Wallaroi creek between condo and Euabalong. A LOT of water still to come 😬
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Another day, another row of cotton. Cool temps means these little fellas have worked hard to get up and feeling the cool! But gosh how glad I am to see you ❤️ 🌱 #cotton22
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Emma Ayliffe
1 year
We’re away in the west! Y95 canola to try and make the most of an early break. Bit early but with some big programs pencilled in it’s now or never! #wintercropbegins #favouritewintercrop
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Really should do this farm on a Friday to finish the week on a high. Absolutely powering 💪🏼
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Sooo I did a thing 👇👇🫶🏼 Thanks @Adama_AU and the Chris Lehmann Trust for the award and @cropconsultants for the nomination. So proud to be part of the amazing cotton industry and can’t wait to celebrate at the conference in August 🍻 @summitagconsult
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Cotton Australia
2 years
2021 ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜɴɢ ᴀᴄʜɪᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴇꜱᴇᴀʀᴄʜᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʏᴇᴀʀ ᴀɴɴᴏᴜɴᴄᴇᴅ ➡️ @csd_cotton @AdamaAgri #cotton #science #awards #research
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Emma Ayliffe
6 years
Super chuffed to receive this today. Thanks @Adama_AU
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Awesome morning at Hillston yesterday looking at what is possible in the Goldilocks season with Dryland cotton, mungbeans and sorghum. Thanks @csd_cotton @LukeSampson8 @agrobaz @PaulMacAHRI_PUL 1 in 100 year season so won’t be trying anytime soon…or will I…
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
How good is a green April! Wedgetail looking mint 👌🏼
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Emma Ayliffe
5 months
Canola away!! Perfect moisture. Perfect prep. Bar doing a stellar job. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🌱
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Love farm adventures! Best start since we bought the farm, everything looking peachy. Here hoping the rest of the season goes the same way 🤞🏻 @craig_newham #agrolyf
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
My favourite time of year, making the leaf fall, ready to pick, gin, spin and weave #agrolyf #jocks #socks #sheets #aussiecotton
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Another week, same farm, another drift event…this crop is surrounded by the Dryland owned by the same farmer which hasn’t been sprayed… How do we better talk about this as a community 🤷🏼‍♀️ @CottonAustralia @SouthernValleys @CottonInfoAust
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Emma Ayliffe
6 years
Fun fact about cotton, when it flowers the flowers are white, when that flower is pollinated they turn pink (usually the next day) and by 3-4 days post flower the petals fall away to reveal the Boll where the lint and seed comes from. #cottoniscool #summitagconsulting
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
It’s getting very wet in the central west… 52.8mm and still going. That’s over a month worth of rain for us 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
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Emma Ayliffe
1 year
And we’re away, day 6 and canola emerging.
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
What an A-maize-ing afternoon 😍🌽😂
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
A couple of mm of rain this morning and you can literally watch the lupins coming up in the front paddock. There is nothing better then being apart of growing something ♥️ keep the rain coming Hughey 🌧
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
It’s all happening! Beautiful rain this morning and these little beauties making an appearance ❤️ @summitagconsult #canola
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
This year hasn’t been my favourite at all but the end is sooo close, not the prettiest crop I’ve ever grow. But we got there #theend #cotton20
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Emma Ayliffe
6 years
The fun begins in the south, hot weather getting these crop ready in a hurry and early reports of yields 11-12 bales/ha through the Lachlan and Riverina #cotton18 #southernvalleys @CottonInfoAust @CottonResearch @CottonAustralia
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Racing the rain… #nightshift
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Ahhhh let the fun begin 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
I don’t know what I’m more excited about. Being at the @AgriFuturesAU #RWA2019 or the fact my name has “director” under it #soblessed #littlethings thanks @CottonResearch . Australian Ag is so lucky to have so many amazing women in it and I feel so grateful to be seated among them
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Emma Ayliffe
3 months
Nola is moving now. Time to spray, spread 🌧️ and then what ever will be will be. Cracking start in the west. Promise I’ll try and share the rain next round.
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
The mighty Murray doing its thing in Morgan. Probably a week of peak. The most water I have ever seen here…
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Leaf is coming off cotton so easily, this is one pass 7 DAA, we might nearly get these in 2 passes this year 🙌🏻
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #NewZealand #epiccharters #kingfish
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Storms brewing, Nola flowering and buggy adventures coz it’s too wet for the ute #agrolyf #mybackyard #sendher
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
The hardest part of my job having conversations around realistic yields. I love an optimist but....
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
These little fellas will be loving the 20mm they got today! @HaworthSplinta 💚
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Today’s crop got me beat, it’s a maze for this short agronomist to check 🤣 featuring today’s cap @JJfarmequipment for those of you playing at home. @searle_cam @HaworthSplinta @pioneerseedsau #agrolyf #springishere
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
It’s starting to look a lot like picking 😍
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Emma Ayliffe
9 months
Measuring cotton in Cam’s before the day gets hot, legit unit of measurement 😂
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Covid means it’s been a long time between field days but it’s great to see @IRECNSW go ahead. Socially spread along the banks talking about rice, cotton, weeds and all things irrigation.
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Annual header stint complete, featuring my favourite reruns “gosh this is good, why don’t I do thins more” “I hate trees, why won’t this auto steer bloody steer” “gosh sunsets are pretty from here” “ok I’m bored and tired, this is why I don’t do this” 2 days has filled my cup…
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Emma Ayliffe
1 year
Every year someone tries to take a shortcut or save a buck…most years it bites them, this year is no different. Didn’t want to spend money on seed dressing, now spending money chasing aphids 🤦🏼‍♀️ @summitagconsult @GRDCNorth @cesaraustralia
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Not a bad way to finish sowing for the day.
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Felt the pain today, hand picking 200m of cotton across 40 Trial plots. Great work by team #summitagconsulting , hopefully there is something significant to ease the hunch back pain I feel tonight! Nice weather though...
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Emma Ayliffe
4 months
Another triple figure rainfall week. Lucky all but 1 paddock in the ground.
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Hello my loves ♥️♥️🌱🌱
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@em_ayliffe
Emma Ayliffe
5 years
From glam and networking last night and back to fields of red and green today playing in trials with dirt under my nails. I have the best job in the world. #livingthedream #agrolyf @IRECNSW
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Good day for the office! In she rolls 🌧
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
There is nothing more satisfying then canola that is table top at early bolt. A lot of things done right, can’t wait to see what it does for us! @summitagconsult @NuseedAustralia
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Annual sowing photo, little ‘nolas going in 🌱 @pioneerseedsau @hutcheonpearce
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Enjoying the clean pick before the rain Wednesday 🥹🙃
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Literally have the best job in the world! Lucky to call this crack place home #cropspam #agrolyf #Caringa @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Mungbeans away in Griffith. My 4th season with these bad boys down here and excited to see what we can do @pennyheuston @PaulMacAHRI_PUL
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Brings a whole new meaning to the term seedy Sunday’s 😂 #fledgingfarmer #weekendjob #moisturesowing
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
The things you find in a cotton field, nestled above the bolls 🥰
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Emma Ayliffe
6 years
The realities of our first harvest as farm owners...still a bit green in areas so will be a while off. Hoping to get our seed back so we can go again 🤞🏻😬🙏🏽👩🏼‍🌾 #challanges #wouldntchangeitfortheworld @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Every day plants amaze me. Both wheat, down at the same time, different gene package. Wedgetail vs spitfire (just a couple runs to finish a paddock) sown March. Visual difference is unreal. #agrolyf #summitagconsulting #bestjobintheworld
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
Dry af but the chickies are holding on and putting on biomass. Unreal plants.
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Emma Ayliffe
6 years
Super humbling to receive this award! Thanks again @Adama_AU for this amazing opportunity. 🙏🏽🥈✈️🌾🌱👩🏼‍🌾📚
@Adama_AU
ADAMA Australia
6 years
Congratulations to @em_ayliffe , runner-up in our 2017/18 @Adama_AU Young Agronomist of the Year Awards. Check out Emma's thoughts on the competition and how she feels about her achievement! #ADAMAYoungAchieverAwards #YoungAgro #FutureOfAgriculture
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
How else do you celebrate your (hopefully) last uni exam EVER!!!!!
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Emma Ayliffe
7 years
And just like that s$&t gets real #firstflower #cotton17
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
And we’re away #cotton22
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
I love this time of year ♥️😍 @pioneerseedsau
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
So many horror stories, kids being bullied, communities being destroyed & people taking their life. As if the stress of drought isn’t hard enough, now being bullied to the point of breaking. I don’t care what you opinion is, as long as it’s educated,👎🏼ABC
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Emma Ayliffe
4 years
Today I got to judge my first ever crop comp! Pressure was real but some great crops around @Cudjallagong Lake. Thanks Helen @CWFS_Condo for helping me pick a winner in the rain! Well done all growers. Was a tough day to be a judge. Hopefully I’ll have some help form @AjFadge
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
Pretty cool to be recognised as a finalist for the cotton young achiever awards this year! Such an amazing industry to work in. Congrats to @dalgliesh_angus and @jameskanaley , can’t wait to celebrate in August 🍻 , congrats to all the other finalists.
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
A tough day yesterday doing hail assessments from last weeks storms. Some absolutely cracking crops reduced to nothing. So heartbreaking for these guys
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Gosh I am glad to see some green and true leaf emerging, now to keep the disease out…
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
My absolute favourite flower! Wish they lived for longer then a couple days so I could have some at home 😍
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Emma Ayliffe
4 months
Today is for the home farm checks. First year sowing our whole show on our own. Nearly half way through and early crops are looking the goods 👌🏼 @CraigNewham
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Emma Ayliffe
3 years
End of cotton season is coming in hot in the Lachlan! ❤️ @SouthernValleys @CottonAustralia @summitagconsult
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Emma Ayliffe
2 years
Quite possibly one of the best albus lupin crops i have seen one of my clients grow, holding up to the 4th set of flowers through to pods. Getting a bit heavy and wanting to lodge. Can’t wait to see a header in here 😍 @summitagconsult @YackerApp
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Emma Ayliffe
5 years
That time of year where I go and annoy my friends and neighbours and risk my life by wearing a QLD onesie to a NSW pub 😂 #qlder
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