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
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
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
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
AUSTRALIA’S wool growers from this Friday will participate in a crucial ballot to determine the levy they pay for industry research, development and marketing activities for the next three years…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
A RANGE of agricultural products containing the active constitutent diazinon, including widely used insecticidal cattle ear tags and sheep blowfly and lice treatments, will be removed from the market despite wool grower opposition…Read More
James Nason, September 11, 2024
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation is seeking an increase in the current 1.5 percent grower levy to 2pc in the 2024 WoolPoll ballot…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2024
MEAT & Livestock Australia’s new managing director Michael Crowley has well and truly got his feet under the desk since kicking off in his new job in late May…Read More
Sheep Central, September 9, 2024