Temora

Um, yeah, so well done.

Temora, will meet, uh, Gundagai in the, uh, Group Nine grand final.

Yeah, two worthy teams again.

Yeah.

I think it works out to be first versus second.

Um, and yeah, Temora, like, uh, you, you think about the quality in that, uh, in that group.

You've got Young that didn't get there and, and all the Wagga teams that didn't get there.

Yeah.

Where are we going, Sug?

We, we're gonna head out to Temora, Fletch.

Hunter is there from Temora.

Hey, Hunter.

How you going?

Oh, now Hunter, this is quite...

This should be right up your alley.

Who am I? Born in Temora.

thoughNow, that was the sound of history being made at the West Wyalong Sheep Sale in the New South Wales Central West on Friday, where unjoined first cross ewes sold for what's understood to be an Australian saleyard record price of $620 a head.

The Golder family from Temora in the Riverina sold the draft of 198 first cross ewes to a Victorian restocker.

At the sale, the Golders sold 600 ewes to average $607 a head.

The previous saleyard record for unjoined first cross ewes of $540 a head was set at Naracoorte in South Australia last year.

So you s- still think you've got a few West Wyalong first cross ewe sales in you?

Well, hopefully, yes.

So what's happening with the crops at your Temora farm at the moment?

We're just waiting for the wheels to fall off the season, because they look exceptional.

Towns are starting to capitalize on canola's picturesque backdrop with, get this, a free public field in the Riverina, proving to be a major draw card for tourists to the region.

Reporter Lauren Pezet, uh, headed to Temora in southern New South Wales to take a look at its, uh, canola tourism.

As an agricultural export, Australia's iconic canola fields are big business.

Harvested for its oil seed, it's a $5 billion industry with product consumed locally and exported across the globe.

But Craig Sinclair from Temora Shire Council in the New South Wales Riverina says it's the picturesque yellow backdrop created by the fields of flowers that has people traveling long distances to catch a glimpse or take a selfie.

There's something about the color yellow, I think, that really makes people feel a sense of joy and happiness.

There's something about spring as well, I think, that, you know, you can shake off the, the dull part of winter and, um, yeah, tourists really love that.

Fungal disease can easily occur when they come in from another property, or there's also weeds that can easily get caught up on people's clothes or their shoes.

Oh.

It's about 80 odd councils and, um, speaking to the chairman, Rick Firm and the Mayor of Temora there last night about questions that would-- I'd like to ask from the floor and the response was there'll be no questions from the floor.

Oh, we couldn't possibly take questions from you, Ewan.

They might get hard.

A lot of other kids in his, um, year had sore throats, and I didn't think too much of it.

And then we went to town on the Friday, and I said to my husband, "Just take him to the chemist and get a sugar test." I had to go on to an appointment in Temora, and my husband rang and said, "His sugar's at 26." I didn't really know what that meant.

I knew it was high.

Um, and he said, "They've told us to go to the hospital and just get it tested 'cause he thinks his machine might be broken." Um, but the chemist knew at that time.

You'll never play sport again, and you'll have to watch what you eat for the rest of your life." [laughs] Um, it's a very poor way of delivering the sto- uh, delivering the diagnosis.

Um, so that was at the local hospital, and then they said, "You need to take him to Wagga," which is our closest, um, rural hospital, bigger hospital.

Um, so yeah, I come back from Temora and picked him up and packed a bag of clothes.

God, God love my son.