Ag students dress to impress at annual ball
Students from the WA College of Agriculture – Narrogin, swapped their farm clothes for dresses and suits for their annual school ball. Click to check the original article.
Cattle imports from Mexico
U.S. cattle and beef trade with Mexico has evolved a great deal over many years. Mexico became one of the major beef export destinations about 25 years ago. In the last dozen years, Mexico has become one of the major beef import sources for the U.S. as beef trade evolved from simply supplementing deficit beef […]
Are current grain prices creating demand?
Prices for many grades of grain stabilised or improved across Australia last week. Click to check the original article.
Eminent plant pathologist still working after six decades
Spotlight on Scientists, Part 7: Dr Lester Burgess. Click to check the original article.
Farm Progress America, March 19, 2024
Mike Pearson tells listeners how the idea of National Ag Day came about and why it is important. Over 50 years ago, the Agriculture Council of America created the idea of National Ag day in the spring of 1973. The Agriculture Council of America (ACOA) was looking for a way to highlight the importance of […]
How this 31yo producer bought land and cattle over $1.3 million on his own
How this young gun purchased a 526 hectare property in Calliope. Click to check the original article.
Weekly genetics review: Do we need to rethink frame scores?
THE gradual increase in mature cow weights is not a phenomenon restricted only to Australia. Internationally there has been a very clear trend of increasing mature cow weights in most beef breeds. In 2021 Dr Dan Burskirk from Michigan State University in the US published a paper questioning the current relevance of frame scores when […]
NSW stud spies top roan bull at Naracoorte sale
Eloora stud’s $24,000 sale topper has provided one of the highlights in the Naracoorte Shorthorn sale. Click to check the original article.
New Angus research breeding values focus on shear force, MSA marbling
Two new Research Breeding Values (RBVs) are available for Angus cattle evaluation, both for eating quality traits – MSA Marbling Score and Shear Force tenderness measurement. Research Breeding Values (RBVs) are EBVs under development. They can be utilised in the same manner as EBVs, however they are subject to greater potential change than the EBVs […]
Jonathan Self: The peasants are anything but revolting
The people who worked the patchwork farms of Ireland until just a few decades ago are all but gone, laments Jonathan Self. ‘We couldn’t afford to live in St John’s Wood — think of the taxi fares’ (overheard in Claridge’s). ‘Are you going home with him?’ ‘I might as well: I am pregnant, anyway’ (overheard […]
Cheaper market at Sarina
Buyers attended from Rockhampton, south east Queensland and the local area. Click to check the original article.
Yearling filly smashes top-price record at ASHS Fountain of Youth sale
A Tamworth based filly broke the top-price record set in 2023. Click to check the original article.