LEADING Italian wool processors and brands have offered to fund the creation of global traceability and sustainability standards for the natural fibre and increased advocacy in the European Union…Read More
Terry Sim, May 3, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt seems unwilling to offer Western Australia’s struggling sheep industry or live export opponents any certainty in the lead up to the Federal Budget, despite pressure from most stakeholders…Read More
Terry Sim, May 3, 2024
FROZEN lamb leg prices into the United States have risen 61 percent since Christmas during a period in which heavy lamb prices in Australia dropped by more than 10pc…Read More
Sheep Central, May 3, 2024
SEASONAL conditions in three states are pointing to a late run of new season lambs across much of southern Australia, according to RMA Network chief executive officer Chris Howie…Read More
Chris Howie, May 3, 2024
THIS week’s property review includes this wrap up of recently completed sales and some interesting recent listings across the country…Read More
Property editor Linda Rowley, May 3, 2024
WOOL growers responded to lower auction prices this week by almost doubling the percentage of bales their brokers passed in across the country…Read More
Sheep Central, May 3, 2024
IT was another week that tested the resolve of Australia’s wool market…Read More
Michael Avery, Southern Aurora Markets partner, May 3, 2024
NEW South Wales livestock producers have been promised electronic identification ear tags for sheep and goats for a net cost of $1, under a discounting program announced today…Read More
WESTERN Australian sheep and cattle producers have been given an extra week to complete a seasonal and market conditions survey…Read More
Sheep Central, May 1, 2024
LIONS charity Need for Feed has been denied access to Victoria’s Apollo Bay port for a shipment of fodder and cattle pellets destined for drought-stricken King Island farmers…Read More
Sheep Central, May 1, 2024
RAINFALL was last week limited to the far north of Australia, parts of the eastern and southern coasts, Tasmania, and patchy areas in the inland west of Western Australia…Read More
Bureau of Meteorology, May 1, 2024
TOTAL standing dry matter conditions remain average to good in New South Wales, but have declined significantly in Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands, and areas with low levels were expanding in South Australia and Western Australia…Read More
Al Rayner, Cibo Labs, May 1, 2024
