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
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
TASMANIA’S peak farmer body has called for higher penalties and public help to improve farm security after a recent spate of illegal livestock butchering incidents…Read More
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A GIPPSLAND farmer Jeremy Rich has failed recently in his attempt to have his conviction and sentence relating to sheep care concerns overturned in the County Court of Victoria…Read More
Sheep Central, August 28, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
TENS of millions of sheep in Australia could be at risk of compromised welfare from short-docked tails, according to the results of a recent survey and previous research…Read More
Sheep Central, July 31, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S National Heavy Vehicle Regulator is urging livestock supply chain stakeholders to follow safer transport practices, following 14 crashes involving livestock in the first four months of 2024…Read More
Sheep Central, July 15, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A NORTHERN Victorian farmer has pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated cruelty involving sheep, and been fined $2000 and ordered to do 100 hours of community service…Read More
Sheep Central, June 26, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
TASMANIAN lamb producer Burbury Ag will design and build an efficient high volume sheep handling system with an $85,821 grant from the Coles Nurture Fund…Read More
Sheep Central, June 12, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S Sheep Sustainability Framework is looking for business professionals with experience in wool processing and retail to join its steering group. The independent steering group guides the Framework in its..Read More
Sheep Central, June 12, 2024
MEN’S Australian middleweight boxing champion Mitch Leek handled his first working dog auction at Casterton with aplomb and persistence at the weekend…Read More
Terry Sim, June 11, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ENVIRONMENTAL management was again the strongest driver of social license for rural industries in 2023, a new report has found…Read More
Sheep Central, March 25, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ANIMAL welfare body FOUR PAWS is focussing on lamb mortality in Australia as an industry-funded study concludes high temperatures during critical periods could result in 2.1 million fewer lambs annually, costing sheep farmers an estimated $97 million each year…Read More
Terry Sim, March 22, 2024
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A ONE-STOP shop for livestock transport information has been launched by Meat & Livestock Australia at the combined Queensland and Australian Livestock Transporters’ Associations’ National Conference in Toowoomba this week…Read More
Sheep Central, March 22, 2024