Vital east-west highway and rail line cut by outback floods
Both the Eyre Highway and Trans-Australian Railway have been closed. Click to check the original article.
Ag lobby primes Senate as last stand to stop biosecurity protection levy
Crossbench senators and staff said to be “supportive and understanding” on controversial aspects of the so-called new biosecurity tax. Click to check the original article.
Pasture dieback research needed to find a solution | Queensland Country Life
“It’s certainly getting worse and, I think, a lot more money should be going into research and trials – so many different grass species are affected by it, there’s a few natives that aren’t, but practically all introduced grass species are – and legumes aren’t.” Click to check the original article.
Agencies sign MOU on civil enforcement of Animal Welfare Act
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD), and USDA Office of the General Counsel (OGC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on civil judicial enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of ENRD, USDA Principal […]
Registration opens for Beef Improvement Federation event
Registration is now open for the 2024 Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Research Symposium and Convention that will be hosted June 10-13 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Participants can save $50 if they register by May 1. Full registration before May 1 is $250. This includes two and one-half days of educational programming focused on improving maternal traits […]
Brenkley takes the honours at the Walcha Show ewe competition
Walcha ewe competition winners: A line any producer would love Click to check the original article.
Estelle Manor review: The Oxfordshire hotel and private member’s club that will appeal to honeymooners and families alike
Estelle Manor is a sanctuary from the rest of the world — a place where life is easy and everyone gets on. Jo Rodgers checks in. Nobody ‘checks in’ at Estelle Manor, the hulking, Elizabethan-style mansion built in 1908 that reopened as a hotel and private member’s club in Oxfordshire last summer. That kind of […]
House floats plan to address farm labor crisis
There’s never a shortage of agriculture news. Here are a few policy stories you may have missed over the past week. House report address ag labor crisis The House Ag Committee’s bipartisan Agricultural Working Group released its long-awaited ag labor report last Thursday. The working group recommends creating a single port for H-2A applications as […]
What I grow in my garden, by Country Life’s gardens editor Tiffany Daneff
Tiffany Daneff talks about her life, her career as a gardening writer, and what she plants in her own space at home. Country Life’s Gardens Editor Tiffany Daneff is one of Britain’s foremost gardening journalists, having worked at titles including The English Garden and The Daily Telegraph, where she launched the gardening supplement. But while […]
How planting trees can fight flooding and improve your soil
Record-breaking rainfall and a changing climate convinced Leicestershire farmer Rachael Spence that she needed to find a way to combat flooding and improve her soil. The answer? Planting more trees, which have helped reduce flood risk and future-proof her land and business. ‘In the last five years we’ve noticed a huge difference,’ says Rachael Spence, […]
A penthouse in a former vinegar factory in Vauxhall returns to the market for the first time since it was converted
The Vat House is a four-bedroom penthouse that oozes with Victorian character and charm in one of London’s more underrated areas. Vauxhall is one of those places that you always seem to be passing through, but never really bother to stop in. The first time I spent time in Vauxhall, as a 20-year-old, I remember […]
Saving the herd with milo grazing
Missouri cattle producer John Chamberlin didn’t want to sell his cows when drought lingered and hay supplies and forages dwindled last year. With more than 600 head of Angus cows, Chamberlin looked to the internet for ideas. A University of Missouri Extension video intrigued him. He called the video’s creator, agronomist Rusty Lee in Montgomery […]