COVID-19 restrictions have cancelled a shearing record attempt planned in New South Wales next weekend, but English shearer Stuart Connor will have another go at the world nine-hour strongwool lamb record in Cornwall tomorrow…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand , July 27, 2021
NEW South Wales grower Michael Field and South Australian-based exporter executive Steven Read have declared their intention to seek nomination in the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director election…Read More
AUSTRALIA’S largest warehouse provider, AWH, plans to have a new wool store in operation in the Victorian city of Hamilton by early next year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S peak national sheep producer body has started a search for a new independent chairman and two board directors…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
YOUNG farmer challenge resources for agricultural shows will be boosted across Australia with a $75,000-plus grant announced this week…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
PRICES and clearances improved across most sheep and lamb categories on the AuctionsPlus platform last week…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 2021
TIGHTER supply has helped goat clearance rates remain strong on AuctionsPlus in the past two week period, with 80 percent clearance achieved and 781 head sold…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A LAMB producer has achieved a 43c/kg carcase weight premium for a high intramuscular fat consignment in the first results from the Gundagai Meat Processors world-first IMF grid offering…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021NEW South Wales grower Michael Field and South Australian-based exporter executive Steven Read have declared their intention to seek nomination in the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director election…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 2021Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A VICTORIAN sheep farmer has been disqualified from owning sheep for ten years after he pleaded guilty to three charges of animal cruelty…Read More
Sheep Central, July 23, 2021WOOL grower bodies have urged senators to seek a private briefing with Australian Wool Innovation about its online trading and tools platform WoolQ after the company refused to release a key report…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021AUSTRALIA’S largest warehouse provider, AWH, plans to have a new wool store in operation in the Victorian city of Hamilton by early next year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021LEADING animal welfare bodies have welcomed changes to Australia’s National Wool Declaration that distinguish wool from sheep treated with liquid nitrogen or freeze branding from ‘non-mulesed’ lines…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021WILD dog baits have been dropped across more than 10 million hectares in one of the largest baiting exercises in New South Wales’ Western Division…Read More
Sheep Central, July 23, 2021AUSTRALIA’S peak national sheep producer body has started a search for a new independent chairman and two board directors…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021ONLINE selling platform AuctionsPlus hasn’t had a big year in sales of camels, baby formula, wine or water, but sheep, cattle, machinery and goats are another story…Read More
Sheep Central, July 23, 2021TIGHTER supply has helped goat clearance rates remain strong on AuctionsPlus in the past two week period, with 80 percent clearance achieved and 781 head sold…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021Congratulations Michael Field & Steven Read for putting their hands up for the AWI Board. We need experienced and independent people to stop the decline in the Australian wool industry.....
Martin OppenheimerRobert, this is not as simple as it seems on the surface. Gundagai is using intramuscular fat as a marketing tool. We have to keep asking the question: is....
Jim GordonThis is game-changing science for producers. Australian Sheep Breeding Values for IMF and ShearF5 now become key parts of a producer's selection criteria. The ability to add $10/carcase....
Robert IngramPerhaps the AWEX board could take a few moments to consider why transparency, common sense and basic honesty took so long to permeate up through all the other bullshit.....
Dirk Stevens
COVID-19 restrictions have cancelled a shearing record attempt planned in New South Wales next weekend, but English shearer Stuart Connor will have another go at the world nine-hour strongwool lamb record in Cornwall tomorrow…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand , July 27, 2021
NEW South Wales grower Michael Field and South Australian-based exporter executive Steven Read have declared their intention to seek nomination in the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director election…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S peak national sheep producer body has started a search for a new independent chairman and two board directors…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
YOUNG farmer challenge resources for agricultural shows will be boosted across Australia with a $75,000-plus grant announced this week…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
PRICES and clearances improved across most sheep and lamb categories on the AuctionsPlus platform last week…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 2021
SHEEP and lambs sold dearer in several categories on AuctionsPlus last week as listings dropped 16 percent to 45,371 head and clearance rates increased…Read More
Sheep Central, July 19, 2021
ONLINE wool sales increased last week, with buyers snapping up mainly suitable fine Merino fleece lines…Read More
Sheep Central, July 19, 2021
NON-MULESED ultrafine Merino wool sold for up 9000c/kg for south-west Victorian growers this week in the highest Australian auction prices paid for several years…Read More
Terry Sim, July 16, 2021
A VICTORIAN sheep farmer has been disqualified from owning sheep for ten years after he pleaded guilty to three charges of animal cruelty…Read More
Sheep Central, July 23, 2021
A NEW award to encourage emerging talent has been added to the prestigious Helen Newton Turner awards this year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 21, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation’s inclusion of 2.5 percent as the supplementary rate in the coming WoolPoll levy ballot has been branded as unnecessary and unjustified…Read More
Terry Sim, July 16, 2021
IF Merino wool prices doubled Glenthompson sheep producers Russell and Fiona Mitchell would not turn back from their flock’s progression away from Merinos, to composites and now to Nudie shedding sheep…Read More
Terry Sim, July 14, 2021
WOOL grower bodies have urged senators to seek a private briefing with Australian Wool Innovation about its online trading and tools platform WoolQ after the company refused to release a key report…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021
A NEW award to encourage emerging talent has been added to the prestigious Helen Newton Turner awards this year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 21, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been condemned for recommending growers support a 2 percent levy in the 2021 WoolPoll ballot, without releasing budgetary, wool price and production projections to support its position…Read More
Terry Sim, July 19, 2021
NEW South Wales wool grower Chick Olsson is running for the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director elections on a pain-free mulesing and AWI reform platform…Read More
Terry Sim, July 9, 2021
A LAMB producer has achieved a 43c/kg carcase weight premium for a high intramuscular fat consignment in the first results from the Gundagai Meat Processors world-first IMF grid offering…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021
QUEENSLAND grain-fed beef export processor Kilcoy Global Foods has finalised its purchase of Victorian beef and lamb processor Hardwicks Meats and informed of the change of ownership this morning…Read More
Jon Condon, July 2, 2021
AUSTRALIAN consumers love a classic rack of lamb, especially one that has been beautifully frenched. But frenching cutlets is a resource-intensive task and processors are keen to find an easier way…Read More
Sheep Central, May 27, 2021
SHEEP Producers Australia has come out in support of wider uptake of intramuscular fat measurement by lamb processors and the inclusion of the trait in Aus-meat language…Read More
Sheep Central, May 24, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S largest warehouse provider, AWH, plans to have a new wool store in operation in the Victorian city of Hamilton by early next year…Read More
Sheep Central, July 26, 2021
WOOL grower bodies have urged senators to seek a private briefing with Australian Wool Innovation about its online trading and tools platform WoolQ after the company refused to release a key report…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021
LEADING animal welfare bodies have welcomed changes to Australia’s National Wool Declaration that distinguish wool from sheep treated with liquid nitrogen or freeze branding from ‘non-mulesed’ lines…Read More
Terry Sim, July 21, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S wool exporters and brokers have supported a revised National Wool Declaration that does not define wool from sheep that have undergone the freeze-branded process as non-mulesed…Read More
Terry Sim, July 19, 2021
Historic south-west Victorian property Minjah is in the process of being sold to the NSW-based company MH Premiums Farms for about $36 million…Read More
Terry Sim, February 17, 2021
SHEEP and beef producers seeking reliable land for livestock finishing are buying into the higher rainfall areas of Victoria, including former dairy regions, according to Elders rural real estate specialist at Camperdown Rob Rickard…Read More
Terry Sim, February 15, 2021
AGRICULTURAL fund manager, Laguna Bay has agreed to sell its flagship Victorian Western District cropping and livestock holding, Banongill Station, for about $80 million to a consortium of local farming families…Read More
Sheep Central, October 27, 2020
AUSTRALIAN agricultural land is entering a new price phase with low-to-no growth in median prices forecast over the next 18 months, according to a new industry report…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2020
New president for Australian Cattle Vets | Ag Innovation role for former Livecorp CEO | Changing of the guard at Yulgilbar | Rising Champions returns with new format | Angus..Read More
At a time when many forecasters seem to opt for the vague and timid “mainly fine with a chance of rain” approach, allowing sufficient wriggle room to claim success whatever..Read More
The National Farmers' Federation and Red Meat Advisory Council is seeing red at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and has urged the Government to do its best to..Read More
The path to a carbon neutral future, environmental sustainability and profit for the red meat and livestock industries will be the focus at a forum in Wagga later this month...Read More
India is reducing its tariff on Australian and Canadian lentils to 10pc from 30pc for an unspecified period, which will give Australian exporters a chance to run down current-crop stocks..Read More
A new research centre will be established in Adelaide to train the next generation of scientists to develop more resilient crops...Read More
Here are six key elements that business managers, owners or leaders need to think about to positively manage staff and help develop them into a high-performing team...Read More
The winter cropping season seems to be coming good in South Australia with recent rains - and the forecast of more to come - lifting crop prospects after a tough..Read More