Podcast – Robin McConchie

Jenny Underwood and No Name the amazing cow

You’ve heard the song Horse with No Name, well today we meet Queensland cattle producer Jenny Underwood who tells the story of the cow with no Name and a calf called Horse. Jenny brightened the lives of farmers during drought with #lifeinasong and #onedaycloser. The season is better in 2020 and No name has just dropped her 15th calf.

No Name is a wonderful cow who refuses to stop producing calves. Every time I visit the wonderful Jenny Underwood at Pine Hills near Roma we head out into the paddock to see if we can catch up with the old girl.

Roger and Jenny Underwood sharing a cuppa at smoko

She must be approaching 20 years of age and her progeny continue to add quality to the Droughmaster breed. Many of the top stud bulls at Eversleigh have sired her calves. The male calves are always called ‘horse’, from the song ‘Horse with No Name’.

No Name 2021 — The wonderful No Name, the veteran of the Pine Hills herd, 2021

The picture in the podcast was taken when Jenny and her husband Roger lived further north and the region was in one of the worst droughts on record. But good old No Name, otherwise known as the Dolly Parton of the ‘bovine world’ still produced plenty of milk and her calf did well.

Podcast: Hope critical in surviving Disaster- Sue Dowling

In the 2019 Floods in NW Queensland, the devastation was immense, 500,000 cattle perished in what was described as a humanitarian disaster. There was a global response to a GoFundMe Campaign run by Sisters of the North and donations topped a million dollars in 16 weeks. SOTN Sue Dowling says they were able to provide a Ping of Hope for the community.

In 2019 NW Queensland was hit by terrible floods. An estimated 500,000 cattle died. It was a disaster of monumental proportions and the damage to roads, fences and homesteads was devastating.

Susan Dowling was part of a tiny group that wanted to help. The Sister’s of the North started a crowdfunding campaign and the response was incredible. They raised over a million dollars in six weeks and were able to provide financial and emotional support to communities in the region.