SHEEP breeders with repeat buyer interest on their home-bred, mulesed and Gudair-vaccinated lines fared best at Corowa’s annual first cross ewe sale yesterday, as prices soared to $502…Read More
Murray Arnel, October 22, 2021
SHEARING contractors and wool producers are hoping the Federal Government will work to fast-track improved visa access for United Kingdom shearers and shed staff under new free trade and visa arrangements…Read More
Terry Sim, October 22, 2021
IMPROVED competition from China lifted Australian wool prices this week and a bale of ultrafine fleece sold for 15,000c/kg – the highest auction price in the nation for more than six years…Read More
Terry Sim, October 22, 2021
WOOL’S auction market continued its sawtooth pattern this week, with most Merino types finding seasonal highs before consolidating into Wednesday’s close…Read More
Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, October 22, 2021
IN an era when job-hopping is becoming more common, keeping talented employees in the fold has become a foremost business challenge for employers – and it applies as much in the meat and livestock industry as any other…Read More
Sheep Central, October 22, 2021
WESTERN Australia’s southern pastoralists have only to the end of the month to be involved in a project investigate long-term solutions for improving rangeland condition and livestock profitability…Read More
Sheep Central, October 22, 2021
MEAT & Livestock Australia’s ‘Make Lamb Not Walls’ campaign has been awarded a number of accolades at Effie Australia’s online ceremony last night, including gold for ‘Outsmarting Covid.’..Read More
Sheep Central, October 21, 2021AUSTRALIAN 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, 2021THE launch of a plant-based product as ‘lamb’ in the United States is unacceptable, according to Nationals senator Susan McDonald…Read More
Terry Sim, October 20, 2021Murray Arnel sale reports and videos
YOUNG Merino ewes peaked at $345 a head at the Deniliquin spring store sheep sale on Friday in a subdued market where limited lots made more than $300 a head…Read More
Murray Arnel, October 18, 2021AUSTRALIA’S goat meat exports have risen 20 percent in 2021 year-to-date on the back of a lift in the national herd…Read More
Sheep Central, October 18, 2021VOTING deadlines in the latest WoolPoll levy ballot and for Australian Wool Innovation director elections will not be put back, despite postal delays in document deliveries to some growers…Read More
Terry Sim, October 20, 2021AGRICULTURE Victoria has advised producers to be alert for signs of pneumonia and pleurisy in flocks this summer…Read More
Sheep Central, October 18, 2021VICTORIA’S peak farming body has launched its new Stock Sense project to help improve animal health, welfare and on-farm biosecurity in the state’s livestock industry…Read More
Sheep Central, October 18, 2021NSW Farmers is calling on state and federal governments to commit to a long-term funding model for biosecurity, suggesting a container levy as one option…Read More
Sheep Central, October 20, 2021SHEEP, goat and cattle parasite resources supplied by the popular ParaBoss website and extension program will be revamped over the next three years…Read More
Sheep Central, October 20, 2021VICTORIAN family-owned seed company AGF Seeds has struck a blow for local ownership in the sector with the acquisition of the Benalla-based Smyth Seeds business…Read More
Sheep Central, October 19, 2021Congratulations to NSW Farmers for pushing to get stronger biosecurity at our borders. All other state farmer organisations and our national bodies should be on red alert on....
Peter SmallMuch has been made of the CEO moving to an overseas position. As sheep producers we will not know what is behind the move, we can only speculate. What we....
Doug WrightMr Olsson writes "with a strong anti-farming element now showing its hand in various parts of the UN and EU, wool now will have to earn its place in....
Donald CameronAll lamb and beef, is plant-based; that is how it should be marketed. The poor flavour-deprived vegetarians and vegans will be in awe of how these newly developing products....
Ken Hart
SHEEP breeders with repeat buyer interest on their home-bred, mulesed and Gudair-vaccinated lines fared best at Corowa’s annual first cross ewe sale yesterday, as prices soared to $502…Read More
Murray Arnel, October 22, 2021
SHEARING contractors and wool producers are hoping the Federal Government will work to fast-track improved visa access for United Kingdom shearers and shed staff under new free trade and visa arrangements…Read More
Terry Sim, October 22, 2021
IMPROVED competition from China lifted Australian wool prices this week and a bale of ultrafine fleece sold for 15,000c/kg – the highest auction price in the nation for more than six years…Read More
Terry Sim, October 22, 2021
WOOL’S auction market continued its sawtooth pattern this week, with most Merino types finding seasonal highs before consolidating into Wednesday’s close…Read More
Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, October 22, 2021
YOUNG Merino ewes peaked at $345 a head at the Deniliquin spring store sheep sale on Friday in a subdued market where limited lots made more than $300 a head…Read More
Murray Arnel, October 18, 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, industry associates and leaders developed during his extensive career as a livestock agent…Read More
Chris Howie, October 4, 2021
THE Australian wool market has suffered falls this week, with losses across all Merino, crossbred and oddment sectors…Read More
Sheep Central, October 1, 2021
AN increasing supply of new season lambs represented 63pc of the AuctionsPlus catalogue this week, with price averages trending downward across five of the six lamb categories. ..Read More
Sheep Central, September 25, 2021
AUSTRALIA’S top sheep and cattle working dog handlers will compete for the nation’s biggest prize purse of $20,000 in a series of trials at Carcoar in November…Read More
Sheep Central, October 5, 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
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
AGRICULTURE Minister David Littleproud is under fire for potentially politicising a wool ‘thought leader’ roundtable tomorrow by inviting two candidates in the 2021 Australian Wool Innovation director election and ignoring the trade…Read More
Terry Sim, October 6, 2021
AN AUTOMATED sheep cradle has been developed to replace the “catch and drag” in the shearing shed – as the industry aims to reduce injuries…Read More
Eric Barker, September 29, 2021
SHEEP producers in the western region of New South Wales are being encouraged to join a small group of like-minded farmers in their local area to participate in a Lifetime Ewe Management course…Read More
Sheep Central, September 29, 2021
AUSTRALIA’s peak red meat processor body is confident its Victorian members will meet the October 15 deadline for authorised workers to have their first COVID-19 vaccination…Read More
Terry Sim, October 6, 2021
LIVESTOCK processors across the country are pushing for a higher uptake of electronic National Vendor Declarations, saying too much time is wasted fixing up paper NVDs…Read More
Eric Barker, October 4, 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
AUSTRALIA’S red meat and livestock industry must continue to unite along the supply chain to improve sector profitability and productivity, Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Jason Strong said this week…Read More
Sheep Central, October 6, 2021
A second complaint in the space of a week involving Australian sheep and allegations of non-compliance of Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System requirements (ESCAS) in the Middle East is being investigated by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment…Read More
Terry Sim, August 4, 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
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
HEWITT Cattle Australia has secured a second prime farming enterprise in New South Wales as it moves to consolidates its organic sheep operations…Read More
Linda Rowley, August 30, 2021
HEWITT Cattle Australia, backed by Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has paid more than $40 million for the historic Tubbo Station wool growing property in the New South Wales’ Riverina…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, August 16, 2021
One of the bonuses of working in the live export industry is that you get to meet some really interesting people from totally different cultures. Mohammad Gadafi Haji Mokti (Gadafi)..Read More
Looking back over 50 years as an animal welfare educator, advocate and innovator, Dr Temple Grandin - arguably the best known individual working in the global beef industry - shared..Read More
In an era when job-hopping is becoming more common, keeping talented employees in the fold has become a foremost business challenge for employers – and it applies as much in..Read More
Like clockwork, daylight saving time has again been making headlines, highlighting an issue that perhaps inflames city-country divides more than any other...Read More
Expanding Moree-based business Pure Grain is bringing new efficiency and traceability to the malting barley supply chain for Asahi's Yatala brewery...Read More
GrainCorp has bought into agtech start-up Hone, which has developed handheld testing technology as a spin-off of medical imaging research...Read More
AGF Seeds at Smeaton has purchased Smyth Seeds of Benalla in a move which will help it increase its range and operational area in south-eastern Australia...Read More
River-flow experts are looking to find a solution to a giant ‘sand slug’ that is adding to the problem of restricted water flows at the Barmah Choke on the Murray..Read More