PLANS to upgrade European Union animal welfare laws to potentially ban tail docking and castration or introduce mandatory pain relief are pointing WoolProducers Australia toward new policy development…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021
OLD-FASHIONED face-to-face sheep selling without the back-up of an online interface returned to the Riverina today with the dispersal of the Avenel Station flock at the Deniliquin saleyards…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021
PREMIUM lamb and beef processor Argyle Foods Group is utilising the integration of livestock enterprise management platform AgriWebb with blockchain-based track-and-trace provider KPMG Origins to focus on new markets and value-adding opportunities…Read More
Sheep Central, December 3, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S wool auction market was slightly dearer this week and the gross value of clips sold this season passed the billion dollar mark to $1,021.81bn, 10 weeks earlier than last year…Read More
Sheep Central, December 2, 2021
Chris Howie offers his perspective on market trends and opportunities in coming weeks and months, drawing from his own observations and from a wide contact network of producers, agents, processors,..Read More
Chris Howie, December 2, 2021
LAST week’s auction market rally after months of rollercoaster prices was followed by a firm tone this week and more forward trading…Read More
Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, December 3, 2021
NEW South Wales livestock farmers with flood-affected land are being urged to test stock water quality…Read More
Sheep Central, December 3, 2021OLD-FASHIONED face-to-face sheep selling without the back-up of an online interface returned to the Riverina today with the dispersal of the Avenel Station flock at the Deniliquin saleyards…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021WILD dog control, sheep flock and goat herd rebuilding in Western Australia’s Murchison region will be boosted by the completion of a dog-proof fence enclosing 6.5 million hectares…Read More
Sheep Central, November 29, 2021YOUNG first cross ewes made to $395, ewe lambs to $376 and Merino ewes to $300 before a small pre-harvest crowd at the final 2021 Wycheproof store sheep sale on Friday…Read More
Murray Arnel, November 29, 2021THE Australian White sheep breed has received a major accolade for its eating quality, winning the champion lamb award at the 2021 Sydney Royal Fine Food show…Read More
Eric Barker, December 1, 2021PLANS to upgrade European Union animal welfare laws to potentially ban tail docking and castration or introduce mandatory pain relief are pointing WoolProducers Australia toward new policy development…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021WESTERN Australian live exporters Emanuel Exports and its subsidiary EMS Rural Exports are free to resume shipments after December 3, more than three years after their licences were cancelled by the industry regulator…Read More
Sheep Central, November 29, 2021VICTORIAN farmers will be protected from animal activism by increased penalties for trespassers breaching farm biosecurity plans, in legislation introduced into parliament today…Read More
Sheep Central, December 1, 2021MEAT and Livestock Australia members elected two directors to the MLA board at the annual general meeting on 25 November, including agri-food specialist Jacqueline Wilson-Smith…Read More
Sheep Central, November 29, 2021VICTORIA’S court system and legal fraternity would need to be educated on the importance of farm biosecurity with the introduction of increased penalties for animal activist trespassers, a leading farmer said today…Read More
Terry Sim, December 1, 2021YOUNG wool growers will converge on Clare in South Australia next year for the next Australian Wool Innovation Breeding Leadership course…Read More
Sheep Central, November 29, 2021I left the Michell wool processing facility in 2002, just before they closed. They moved this section to China a few years later. Then in 2018, I worked in another....
Steve BaileyThe Blake concern with biosecurity being threatened by trespassers is rational...This self-contradictory concept isn't :".... which are within the law – without being inhibited by threats of exposure..." ....
Jack ClearyIf you have nothing to hide, why don't you allow the public to see what goes on? I am 79 and and don't consider myself extreme in any way.....
Sylvia Raye-BowdenDirk, it is easy to understand why many regard this debate as "waffle". The so-called "waffle" has been dominating our industry for more than a generation. Politics is the....
Peter Small
PLANS to upgrade European Union animal welfare laws to potentially ban tail docking and castration or introduce mandatory pain relief are pointing WoolProducers Australia toward new policy development…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021
OLD-FASHIONED face-to-face sheep selling without the back-up of an online interface returned to the Riverina today with the dispersal of the Avenel Station flock at the Deniliquin saleyards…Read More
Terry Sim, December 3, 2021
PREMIUM lamb and beef processor Argyle Foods Group is utilising the integration of livestock enterprise management platform AgriWebb with blockchain-based track-and-trace provider KPMG Origins to focus on new markets and value-adding opportunities…Read More
Sheep Central, December 3, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S wool auction market was slightly dearer this week and the gross value of clips sold this season passed the billion dollar mark to $1,021.81bn, 10 weeks earlier than last year…Read More
Sheep Central, December 2, 2021
Chris Howie offers his perspective on market trends and opportunities in coming weeks and months, drawing from his own observations and from a wide contact network of producers, agents, processors,..Read More
Chris Howie, December 2, 2021
SOUTH-WEST Victoria’s prime lamb turn-off started in earnest this week and Hamilton producer Jess Menzel was more than happy with the record prices for heavy new season lambs…Read More
Terry Sim, November 17, 2021
PRICES improved for limited numbers of ewe-lamb units, Merino wethers and shedding breed ewes on AuctionsPlus last week…Read More
Sheep Central, November 15, 2021
FIRST cross ewes sold to a national record price of $538 at the annual Naracoorte 1.5 year-old ewe sale yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, November 12, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S world-first sheep sustainability framework is set to be strengthened and its global profile elevated under new chair Queensland producer Verity Morgan-Schmidt…Read More
Terry Sim, November 17, 2021
NEW Zealand researchers believe selection and breeding of low methane-emitting sheep can make a substantial contribution to mitigation of the greenhouse gas at a low cost to industry…Read More
Sheep Central, November 12, 2021
WHILE meat sheep may be known as less labour intensive, handling has started to become a challenge with fast weight gains and the animals’ ability to jump…Read More
Eric Barker, November 10, 2021
WESTERN Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is extending footrot surveillance in abattoirs to include feedlot lamb lines this year…Read More
Sheep Central, November 9, 2021
TRIAL crops from a long-term Future Farming Systems cropping-livestock project are being harvested in Western Australia for the first time, providing a unique comparison between various broadacre production approaches…Read More
Sheep Central, November 18, 2021
IN A massive vote of defiance of the current Australian Wool Innovation board, growers have voted overwhelmingly to retain their levy at 1.5 percent of sale proceeds for the next three years…Read More
Terry Sim, November 11, 2021
POSTAL delays have led to some wool growers not yet receiving ballot papers for the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director elections, with proxy voting due to close in a week’s time…Read More
Terry Sim, November 10, 2021
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation is standing solid behind former chief executive officer Stuart McCullough’s appointment to a new international role despite already outlaying hundreds of thousands of dollars to overseas marketing advisers…Read More
Terry Sim, October 18, 2021
AUSTRALIAN lamb processors and brands can benchmark product and ensure it meets customer needs following commercial accreditation of a probe that measures intramuscular fat…Read More
Sheep Central, November 17, 2021
GUNDAGAI brothers Bill and Tony Barton will offer their Tumut property Kimball and its Primeline ewe flock in a rare offering this month to enable re-investment in their lamb processing business…Read More
Terry Sim, November 17, 2021
NATIONAL Wool Declaration definitions for wool from non-mulesed and ceased mulesed flocks, and sheep treated with liquid nitrogen, have been clarified by the Australian Wool Exchange…Read More
Sheep Central, November 15, 2021
A MEAT Business Women masterclass next month aims to help women across the Australian and New Zealand meat industries create better connections and engagement with their audiences…Read More
Sheep Central, November 10, 2021
A REVIEW of the Federal Department of Agriculture’s system for issuing livestock export permits and health certificates has identified several concerns with its processes, including its reliance on outdated IT systems…Read More
James Nason, November 29, 2021
MEAT and Livestock Australia has released a series of webinars on red meat and livestock industry innovation, integrity systems and marketing…Read More
Sheep Central, November 18, 2021
AUSTREX animal welfare assurance manager Kari Moffat has won the 2021 Livestock Exporter Young Achiever of the Year Award…Read More
Sheep Central, November 10, 2021
THE price gap between conventional and certified quality assured/audited ‘attribute’ lamb is expected to widen, according to WAAMCO International chief executive officer Coll MacRury…Read More
Terry Sim, November 9, 2021
WOOL grower Andrew Farran will continue his long-standing philanthropic contributions to agriculture and education, aided by the sale of the Edenhope district property Yiddinga…Read More
Terry Sim, November 15, 2021
THE New South Wales Government has added the Avenel/Mount Westwood Station aggregation near Broken Hill and Koonaburra Station near Ivanhoe to its national park area…Read More
Liz Wells, October 26, 2021
THE value of western division land in New South Wales and Queensland has risen sharply in recent times on the back of strong pricing across most commodity classes, including meat goats…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, October 13, 2021
A COMMON outcry amongst the farming community is that the price of farms and properties seems out of context with the income they can generate. ..Read More
Sheep Central, September 25, 2021
A growing middle class in Indonesia is shifting diets to higher value foods and making it harder for the country to resist importing, while there are still some major trade..Read More
Hiring the best people for a business is never easy, particularly when there is a small pool to choose from with the particular skills you need. It is fast becoming..Read More
A competitive tender process has started for 110,000 megalitres of water in the largely untapped Flinders River catchment of North-West Queensland...Read More
New stock of Beef Central’s popular board games, ‘The Great Aussie Cattle Quiz’ and ‘Cattle Baron’ have arrived, and will make an ideal present to put under this year’s Christmas..Read More
Keep up to date with Australian cropping industry developments with Grain Central’s monthly quiz...Read More
A competitive tender process has started for 110,000 megalitres of water in the largely untapped Flinders River catchment of north-west Queensland...Read More
Irrigators in the Murray–Darling Basin faced a challenging year in 2019-20 due to water scarcity and low allocations following persistent drought up until late 2019, according to an ACCC report...Read More
Food prices will remain high in 2022 as adverse weather, inflation along supply chains and logistical strains stay likely to continue, according to Rabobank’s annual Agri Commodity Markets Outlook report...Read More