ON-FARM same-day footrot testing is a step closer after successful testing of a new method on several sheep properties across Victoria…Read More
Terry Sim, March 18, 2019
A NEW improved sheep condition scoring app has been released in Western Australia to help boost productivity in the states sheep meat and wool industry…Read More
Sheep Central, March 18, 2019
Three new contracts have been signed in recent weeks with lamb processors across Australia for the installation of Dual-Energy X-ray (DEXA) carcase scanning systems, while an additional beef system is also likely to be installed in coming months…Read More
Jon Condon, March 20, 2019
ON-FARM same-day footrot testing is a step closer after successful testing of a new method on several sheep properties across Victoria…Read More
Terry Sim, March 18, 2019
A NEW improved sheep condition scoring app has been released in Western Australia to help boost productivity in the states sheep meat and wool industry…Read More
Sheep Central, March 18, 2019
ANIMAL welfare groups have asked Australian Wool Innovation to implement a more proactive strategy to rapidly phase out surgical mulesing and deal more effectively with flystrike…Read More
GENOMICS and DNA testing are estimated to boost the Australian sheep industry’s value to the economy by more than $121 million by 2029, a Sheep CRC-funded analysis has found…Read More
Sheep Central, March 15, 2019
SOUTH Australian farmer Leith Tilley and Victorian research scientist Stephanie Muir are the winners of the 2019 Sheep Industry Ambassador Award…Read More
Sheep Central, March 13, 2019
FALLING sheep and lamb prices, exclusion fencing growth and an expected short season providing short-term grazing has prompted limited sheep purchases by Queensland producers…Read More
Terry Sim, March 8, 2019
NEW Grassland Society of Southern Australia president, Hamilton livestock consultant Steve Cotton, says farmers should consider themselves first and foremost as grass growers…Read More
Sheep Central, September 11, 2017
NORTH-EAST Victorian farmers will be challenged to increase their stocking rates to improve profitability, at the Grassland Society of Southern Australia’s annual conference at Nagambie this week…Read More
Sheep Central, September 4, 2017
LOWER rainfall in two of the past three years has forced Heywood district prime lamb and beef producer Georgina Gubbins to increase forward management planning…Read More
Sheep Central, August 21, 2017