A SHRINKING production outlook and expensive fuel have seen northern values jump last week, but southern prices have dropped in response to consolidating crop prospects and softer global wheat values…Read More
Liz Wells, September 28, 2026
VICTORIAN operation Hamilton Genetics has concluded the first successful export of sheep semen and embryos to Egypt…Read More
Terry Sim, September 23, 2026
NEW South Wales police are appealing for information on the attempted poisoning of Poll Dorset stud rams valued at more than $300,000 on a Murrulebale property between Temora and Wagga Wagga…Read More
Sheep Central, September 21, 2026
DRY conditions, including some widespread frost, were the domestic contributors to a lift in values for wheat and barley last week…Read More
Liz Wells, September 21, 2026
WOOLPRODUCERS Australia is leading a push to find a company to help register and manufacture a footrot vaccine for the nation’s sheep producers…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
WHEAT and barley prices fell in the south last week, while northern rates have firmed as quality and production prospects deteriorate for the southern Queensland crop…Read More
Liz Wells, September 14, 2026
WESTERN Australian sheep producers and processors have been awarded grants in the second round of $40 million Supply Chain Capacity Program as part of government funding from the live sheep export transition package…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
NEW Zealand’s sheep meat and wool production is expected to fall over the next 12 months, according to Beef + Lamb NZ’s New Season Outlook for 2026-2027…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
AUSTRALIA’S farmers are being urged to make hay while the sun shines with a warning of a potential fodder shortage if predictions of a strong El Niño come to fruition…Read More
Sheep Central, September 14, 2026
FORMER National Farmers Federation deputy chief executive officer Lyall Howard remembers where he was on September 11, 2001 – in the United States trying to negotiate Australia’s way out of a lamb tariff dispute. He proposes that the countries could still work together to build lamb demand and production…Read More
By former NFF deputy CEO Lyall Howard., September 11, 2026
THE latest American lamb industry effort to limit imports from Australia and New Zealand has sparked industry discussion on whether marketing collaboration efforts should be renewed…Read More
GOVERNMENT and state farming organisation scrutiny of Sheep Producers Australia’s Future Flock Strategy process is increasing after the release of two flawed taxpayer-funded reports last week…Read More
Terry Sim, September 9, 2026