AUSTRALIA’S fodder industry needed to focus on producing better products year-round for livestock producers, according to the sector’s new leader…Read More
Sheep Central, September 28, 2020
GREATER alignment between education and career path development in the sheep industry is necessary to ensure people with a diverse range of knowledge and capabilities are attracted, according to Nuffield..Read More
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
NEW South Wales wool growers who mules sheep without pain relief are being sought to test current animal cruelty legislation, following the failure of a bill aimed at regulating mulesing in the state…Read More
Terry Sim, September 25, 2020
PRACTICAL steps for Australia’s red meat industry to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 will be laid out at the next Intercollegiate Meat Judging Association (ICMJ) webinar on September 30…Read More
Sheep Central, September 23, 2020
A RECORD number of sheep and lambs has been inspected in abattoirs under the National Sheep Health Monitoring Project…Read More
Sheep Central, September 21, 2020
NEW South Wales farmers are being urged to check any Paterson’s Curse infestations for insect damage this Spring, before undertaking costly spraying…Read More
Sheep Central, September 21, 2020
UNITED Kingdom sheep farmers were not profitable without subsidies, but could grow trees for carbon credits to be viable, UK researchers have found…Read More
Sheep Central, September 11, 2020
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
BLUETONGUE, anthrax and footrot diagnoses have been crucially ruled out in recent sheep and cattle disease inspections in north-west New South Wales…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2020
WATER trading will be the focus of the first in a series of irrigation webinars to be run this Spring by Agriculture Victoria…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2020
DROUGHT resilience adoption and innovation hubs will be established across Australia with an $86 million investment by the Federal Government…Read More
Sheep Central, September 2, 2020
AUSTRALIA’S pesticides and veterinary medicine regulator has reported improvements in its application assessment performance for the 2019-20 financial year…Read More
Sheep Central, August 31, 2020
A BRITISH Texel ram lamb has set a new world record price equivalent to more than A$667,000 in the Scottish National Texel Sale at the Lanark Agricultural Centre in Scotland…Read More
Terry Sim, August 28, 2020