VICTORIA’S permanent kangaroo harvesting program was launched today, allowing landowners to give authorised harvesters permission to operate on their farms…Read More
BI-PARTISAN support for a $25 million upgrade to South Australia’s 100 year-old dog wild fence has been achieved just days before the Federal Election…Read More
Sheep Central, May 15, 2019
NEW Zealand’s lamb crop is estimated to fall 2.4 percent this year, with a decline in the number of breeding ewes, according to the country’s annual stock number survey…Read More
Sheep Central, October 9, 2019
AN excavator attachment that allows drill stem posts to be driven through concrete aprons and hard surfaces has won the Innovator of the Year award at the Australian Lot Feeders’ Association annual conference in Dalby…Read More
Neil Lyon, October 7, 2019
A UNIQUE course offered through Wodonga TAFE has been designed to specifically meet the needs of people looking for a potential career in agricultural service fields, such as the stock and station agency sector, agri-finance and animal production and health…Read More
Sheep Central, October 2, 2019
New laws that will strengthen farmer protections against escalating animal rights activism and harassment have passed the Federal Parliament, introducing tougher penalties for convictions…Read More
Colin Bettles, September 13, 2019
NEW South Wales remote work advocate, Jo Palmer, has won the 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award and $10,000 to help build a portal to connect employers with potential employees…Read More
Terry Sim, September 12, 2019
WARRNAMBOOL stock agent Joshua McDonald has won the ALPA 2019 Victorian Young Auctioneers Competition on his second attempt…Read More
Sheep Central, September 11, 2019
THE Australian Livestock & Property Agents Association has appointed career agent Peter Baldwin as it’s new chief executive officer, following the retirement of Andy Madigan, who has headed the organisation for the past 15 years…Read More
Sheep Central, September 10, 2019
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation is refusing to disclose the size of a payment made to it by the liquidators of the defunct grower-owned Graziers Investment Company to help finalise an outstanding Indian property stamp duty issue…Read More
Terry Sim, September 9, 2019
AS the takeover of Ruralco by Landmark-owner Nutrien moves toward creating a rural merchandise retailing and wholesaling behemoth in Australia, Elders Limited has announced an acquisition move that will extend its own competitive footprint beyond rural retailing and into wholesaling as well…Read More
Sheep Central, July 15, 2019
A QUEENSLAND wool grower’s son working in Victoria has taken out the 2019 Rabobank Business Development Prize from a field of some of Australia and New Zealand’s leading young farmers…Read More
Sheep Central, July 15, 2019