Resilience is a word that is bandied around far too much these days. 

It has even crept in to the corporate vernacular around company values and the attributes businesses would like their employees to embody in their day-to-day work. 

Why on earth you would want your employees to have to draw on their reserves of resilience on a day-to-day basis just to get through their workday is beyond me. 

Being well trained, displaying stoicism, having a strong work ethic and good depth of character, yes; relying on people’s resilience, I’m not so sure. 

You need to be resilient when you need to be resilient, which comes into sharp focus when the real things in life happen. 

There is no better example of this than the recent fires many of our local farmers and residents have had to endure. 

After a better-than-expected growing season due to a kind spring, to be immediately thrust into a situation where paddocks are bare and blowing, livestock and livestock feed have been lost, machinery, infrastructure, or even worse, your home has been destroyed, requires a level of resilience to come back from that is far beyond what the modern meaning of the word would suggest.  

Insurance or no insurance, attempting to recover, even long after the initial impact of the event passes, is perhaps the hardest part of it all for those affected. 

In a world that seemingly stops for no one, it is especially difficult and possibly why the word is flirted with so much in the modern day, as often there is little room left available for when the real requirement for resilience calls.  

I know I would speak on behalf of our competing agencies as well as AWN that ongoing assistance is available and willing to be provided for anyone in need of contacts or assistance in coordinating freight, fodder, livestock, or simply an ear and-or a conversation.      

The entire January 28, 2026 edition of The Weekly Advertiser is available online. READ IT HERE!

The entire January 28, 2026 edition of AgLife is available online. READ IT HERE!