TIME is running out for much of southern Australia’s winter crop to receive a yield-building rain, and markets have reacted this week with a lift in values for wheat for prompt delivery…Read More
Liz Wells, October 7, 2024
MEAT & Livestock Australia adoption programs delivered $74.3 million in annual net benefits to more than 10,000 sheep, beef and goat producers in 2023-24, the research, development and marketing body has estimated…Read More
Sheep Central, October 4, 2024
THE latest survey of Australian sheep producer intentions is expected to give insights into the impact of recent difficult seasonal conditions on lamb turnoff and ewe numbers…Read More
Sheep Central, October 3, 2024
THE NORTHERN barley harvest is gathering pace and putting pressure on nearby prices as grower selling increases, but wheat trading remains thin…Read More
Liz Wells, September 30, 2024
INDUSTRIAL hemp forage containing very low levels of the psychoactive cannabinoid THC has scope for use in some types of sheep, an AgriFutures Australia project has found…Read More
HAY-MAKING is off to an unusually early start in parts of South Australia and western Victoria, where some cereal and canola crops will not make it to harvest…Read More
Liz Wells, September 19, 2024
Western Victoria wool grower and lamb producer Peter Small shares his insights and lessons learnt from farming through four major droughts and the most recent ‘green drought’ in the state’s south-west…Read More
Peter Small, September 19, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ANIMAL welfare bodies have stepped up government lobbying to phase out the mulesing of sheep in Australia by 2030, releasing a report highlighting the Australian wool industry’s ‘broken promise’ to ban the practice by 2010…Read More
Terry Sim, September 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S peak wool grower body has pushed back strongly on a report criticising the lack of progress on ending mulesing in the nation’s sheep flocks…Read More
Sheep Central, September 18, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AN automated sheep catching pen that brings the woolies to the shearer has won the coveted 2024 Henty Machine of the Year at the annual field days this week…Read More
Sheep Central, September 18, 2024
A crop of wheat at Milguy, north-east of Moree, in the later stages of grain fill and looking at above-average yield potential. PRICES for new-crop wheat and barley in the..Read More
Liz Wells, September 13, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A WEST Wimmera sheep farmer has been fined $10,000 and convicted for cruelty to livestock in the Horsham Magistrates Court…Read More
Sheep Central, September 13, 2024