LONG-AWAITED ongoing funding for the National Wild Dog Action Plan and its coordinator for at least another year was confirmed by the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry in Senate Estimates yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, October 28, 2026
THE United Kingdom’s agricultural contractors will continue to fight for access to overseas shearers after the country’s Home Office ended visa concessions for the workers and denied them temporary shortage skills status…Read More
Sheep Central, October 28, 2026
CEREAL crops in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales are losing weight and quality every day as rain settles in over the region…Read More
Liz Wells, October 26, 2026
A NEW Zealand sheep shearer has been placed on two months home detention for physically abusing seven lambs while shearing them…Read More
Sheep Central, October 22, 2026
QUEENSLAND and Tasmania are ranked as Australia’s lowest wool-producing states – but that hasn’t stopped grower-backed start-up QWool from thinking big…Read More
Sheep Central, October 21, 2026
SIGNIFICANT expansion of the Australian sheep flock remains unlikely, despite strong global sheep meat prices, according to Rabobank research…Read More
Sheep Central, October 21, 2026
NEARBY feedgrain values have firmed in the north as growers limit new-crop grain being meted out to a hungry domestic market, and southern markets have eased in response to a tail-off in barley demand…Read More
Liz Wells, October 19, 2026
CHARLES Sturt University research that gives drought-hit sheep producers answers to four critical management decisions is being extended in a podcast series…Read More
Sheep Central, October 19, 2026
AUSTRALIA’S largest wool offering in five weeks has tested demand and prompted increased grower withdrawals from auctions…Read More
Sheep Central, October 16, 2026
A tool originally built to improve grape quality in vineyards is being repurposed to measure pasture biomass across Australian grazing paddocks, with research suggesting more accurate biomass measurement could lift livestock farm profitability by 11-15 percent…Read More
TWO blade shearers have saved the day for Australia with an historic win in a trans-Tasman test match at the New Zealand Spring Shears in the South Canterbury town of Waimate…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, October 12, 2026
NEW Zealand’s Zentera Wool Company is upping the ante to source more non-mulesed wool from Australian growers, with longer term contracts and a continued derogation for ‘ceased mulesing’ production…Read More
Sheep Central, October 12, 2026