TRADE enquiry for the first new season’s lambs has been very good with first-draft suckers at the Forbes’ saleyards making $9.50-$10/kg, plus clean fresh skins worth $10-$12. ..Read More
Chris Howie, August 2, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has approved an extra $650,000 in funding for a collaborative project with CSIRO to fast-track further investigations into the development of a flystrike vaccine. ..Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 2021
DELIBERATELY or accidentally introduced invasive species have cost the Australian economy almost $390 billion in the last 60 years, a new analysis has revealed…Read More
Sheep Central, August 1, 2021
Drones are being put to the test against working dogs to muster sheep as part of new UNSW Canberra and Charles Sturt University research…Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 2021
AUCTIONSPLUS sheep and lamb listings increased for the second consecutive week, up four percent from last week to 57,578 head…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2021
WHILE the annual recess for physical selling centres continued this week, the AuctionsPlus offer board remained active…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2021
RSPCA Australia has called on the Australian Government to strip the export licence from live sheep exporter Livestock Shipping Services, claiming it has breached live export regulations 44 times…Read More
Sheep Central, July 30, 2021AUSTRALIAN sheep have been withdrawn from a Jordanian slaughter facility after non-compliant handling was reported to exporter Livestock Shipping Services during the Eid festival by animal rights body Animals Australia…Read More
Sheep Central, July 30, 2021A PROPERTY with rarely seen scale in the New South Wales’ Central Tablelands region has returned to the market via expressions of interest with Ray White Emms Mooney…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, July 30, 2021TRADE enquiry for the first new season’s lambs has been very good with first-draft suckers at the Forbes’ saleyards making $9.50-$10/kg, plus clean fresh skins worth $10-$12. ..Read More
Chris Howie, August 2, 2021SHEEP dog trialling will be an Olympic sport in Brisbane in if New South Wales Angie White and hundreds of supporters have their way…Read More
Terry Sim, July 28, 2021WOOL growers across the world will again be connected with supply chain stakeholders in the second annual Wool Connect virtual conference in September this year…Read More
A cold front and low pressure system brought widespread rain to the southern half of Australia in the first half of the week, while cold fronts later in the week produced destructive winds and moderate falls over SA, Victoria, Tasmania and south-west WA…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, July 28, 2021A GLAMOUR shearing record once the domain of New Zealand’s best has been broken in the United Kingdom for the second time in five years by a shearer averaging one lamb every 37.16 seconds over nine hours…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, July 29, 2021WESTERN Australian research has found production gains could be made by feeding sheep industrial hemp as a summer feed option…Read More
Sheep Central, July 28, 2021MEAT & Livestock Australia’s ‘Make Lamb Not Walls’ advertisement has backed up its strong retail sales result by winning the ‘TV Ad of the year’ and ‘Ad Campaign of the Year’ at The Mumbrella Awards last night…Read More
Sheep Central, July 30, 2021AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has approved an extra $650,000 in funding for a collaborative project with CSIRO to fast-track further investigations into the development of a flystrike vaccine. ..Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 2021This is the sort of event AWI or an educational institution such as RIST should be initiating. Australia, asleep at the wheel yet again. And we wonder why Australia no....
Peter SmallThey got the munchies and put on weight. No big surprise there.....
Glenn NixSounds great, but just try to get someone to take action against those who breach property biosecurity. I have sent details about a livestock/property biosecurity issue to police, Federal....
Geoff PurcellHear hear Dirk, a monumental amount of valuable time wasted on what should have been a very simple and straightforward decision. It beggars belief that such a simple process....
Jonathan Lillie
DELIBERATELY or accidentally introduced invasive species have cost the Australian economy almost $390 billion in the last 60 years, a new analysis has revealed…Read More
Sheep Central, August 1, 2021
Drones are being put to the test against working dogs to muster sheep as part of new UNSW Canberra and Charles Sturt University research…Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 2021
RSPCA Australia has called on the Australian Government to strip the export licence from live sheep exporter Livestock Shipping Services, claiming it has breached live export regulations 44 times…Read More
Sheep Central, July 30, 2021
AUSTRALIAN sheep have been withdrawn from a Jordanian slaughter facility after non-compliant handling was reported to exporter Livestock Shipping Services during the Eid festival by animal rights body Animals Australia…Read More
Sheep Central, July 30, 2021
TRADE enquiry for the first new season’s lambs has been very good with first-draft suckers at the Forbes’ saleyards making $9.50-$10/kg, plus clean fresh skins worth $10-$12. ..Read More
Chris Howie, August 2, 2021
AUCTIONSPLUS sheep and lamb listings increased for the second consecutive week, up four percent from last week to 57,578 head…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2021
WHILE the annual recess for physical selling centres continued this week, the AuctionsPlus offer board remained active…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2021
PRICES and clearances improved across most sheep and lamb categories on the AuctionsPlus platform last week…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 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
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has approved an extra $650,000 in funding for a collaborative project with CSIRO to fast-track further investigations into the development of a flystrike vaccine. ..Read More
Sheep Central, August 2, 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
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
A PROPERTY with rarely seen scale in the New South Wales’ Central Tablelands region has returned to the market via expressions of interest with Ray White Emms Mooney…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, July 30, 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
In the last 60 years alone, deliberately or accidentally introduced invasive species have cost the Australian economy $390 billion, a new analysis has revealed, with that number likely to rise..Read More
Due to the extension of the current South East Queensland lockdown and worsening local COVID- 19 outbreak, the 2021 Royal Queensland Show has been cancelled in the best interests of..Read More
A recent spate of dog deaths in Victoria has been traced to a consignment of horses transported from the Northern Territory to be processed for pet meat, according to Primesafe..Read More
The deadline for the Senate Enquiry into Definitions of Meat and other Animal products has been extended to the 13th of August providing a great opportunity for all cattle producers..Read More
Bayer has announced it will replace glyphosate-based products in the US residential lawn and garden market with alternative formulations in 2023 as part of a five-point plan to contain its..Read More
Farmers in New South Wales can now apply for mouse bait rebates of up to $10,000 per farm business through the Rural Assistance Authority website...Read More
An engaged employee who feels there’s room to flourish and who is listened to and rewarded accordingly will add considerably to any agribusiness’s bottom line...Read More
Keep up to date with Australian cropping industry developments with Grain Central’s monthly quiz...Read More