Dear Valued Interested Persons, As Australian Farmers continue utilisation and exploration into Drought tolerant crops are we going to do anything with Livestock to build genuine resilience to Drought? Farmers in Northern Territory and other regions of Australia run [...]

The effect of Drought on Cattle would seem obvious from the often gut wrenching images we see on the news and particularly for those less fortunate who experience it firsthand. Nonetheless looking a little closer is a worthwhile exercise as the effect runs deep [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, Please find link to a 10 minute video package from House Question Time discussing Drought from Tuesday the 15th of October 2019: here Pleasing to hear The Hon. Scott Morrison [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, Over coming weeks OBA Consulting will be meeting with a number of prominent Australian General Insurers to submit a concept proposal form we have designed for Livestock Drought Insurance - attached. Whilst this is not the [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, In a former update of the 8th September 2019 we referenced the insurable Peril of ‘Theft’ - here This week Victoria Police announced increased measures to assist Farms experiencing Theft including Theft of Livestock - here This again highlights that all major insurable Perils are available [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, White line fever is an Australian term used to describe the radical change in a person's behaviour when stepping onto a sporting arena to play, aka stepping over the 'white line'. Is this a bad [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, It is with a lasting sense of shame that 20 years ago last month I recall participating in the infamous and equally inhumane 'festival' known as 'Running with the bulls' in Pamplona, Spain, 1998 - [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, Being the world’s only internationally recognised, operational, Livestock Drought insurance program of scale and one that has been operating for over a decade OBA Consulting again refers to the Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP). Reported [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, In Mongolia last year Drought and other weather related factors associated with it claimed 700,000 head of Livestock – please find story here The BBC documentary series Extreme World referenced this extensively in an episode [...]

Dear Valued Interested Persons, On the 22nd of July 2019 Senator The Hon Bridget McKenzie was kind enough to send a letter to OBA Consulting – we look forward to working with Bridget and her Department as The Australian [...]