Four ways Australia can reduce its methane emissions
Four projects to cut methane emissions in Australia’s cattle industry have been detailed at the international TropAg conference in Brisbane. Click to check the original article.
Bowen Gumlu Growers Association hosts Japanese Consul-General | North Queensland Register
Mr Collins said the Japanese trainees, who had been gaining valuable skills and knowledge while working on local fruit and vegetable farms for the past five months, had also been making the most of their downtime and enjoying the region’s local events and tourist spots. Click to check the original article.
Three charged and $17.5k in cash seized after Mount Isa drug bust | The North West Star
As part of “Operation Gulf Detect”, a joint operation with Australian Border Force (ABF) officers in late October, police completed examinations of postage parcels in Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Normanton and Karumba in an effort to disrupt and target drug distribution through postal services. Click to check the original article.
Ideology taking over science in some global markets, TropAg conference told
Federal Government special ag advisor Su McCluskey at the TropAg conference in Brisbane. AS GOVERNMENTS across the world set ambitious targets to tackle climate change, an Australian agricultural representative says the industry must engage in more “truth telling” to avoid ideology drowning out science in the formation of policy. Federal Government special representative for Australian […]
Chilled beef airfreight shipments launched into San Francisco
Fifteen tonnes of high quality chilled Australian beef was loaded as part of the first airfreight consignment leaving Brisbane Airport for San Francisco on the US west coast this morning. The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger/freight service was launched this week by United Airlines, which has previously operated only out of Sydney and Melbourne airports. […]
Beef cross steers top $2425 at Boyanup
Lotfeeder competition increased over recent sales, along with AuctionsPlus support. Click to check the original article.
Light steers increase $217
Increased listings of steers contributed to three out of five categories losing most of the previous week’s gains. Click to check the original article.
North West Queensland in for cooler week after scorching hot weekend | The North West Star
Heading in to the first week of November, the Bureau’s forecast shows a slight chance of a thunderstorm on Tuesday with south-westerly winds tending southerly before dawn then becoming light in the late evening. Skies will remain partly cloudy with temperatures reaching a top of 30 degrees and a low of 19 degrees. Click to […]
Fashion designer Emma Bond is redefining the possibilities of Australian cotton | The Land
“Growing up, I used to like spending the day out with my brothers in the sun, talking as we walked the rows of cotton, chipping. Initially, I had the best job – Dad entrusted me to walk at the back carrying the water bottle and to sing out if anyone missed a weed. I’m not […]
Carbon confusion shines through at Clermont conference
AS PRESSURE ramps up on the cattle industry to reduce emissions, a group of Central Queensland producers have taken a panel of scientists to task in an effort to better understand the challenges ahead. Carbon was one of the main topics of the Clermont Beef Up forum, with the local research committee highlighting it as […]
Hancock Ag outlays about $150m on Wee Waa aggregation
GINA Rinehart’s Hancock Agriculture has purchased three irrigated cropping properties in the Wee Waa region of New South Wales, in a transaction reportedly worth around $150 million. Industry sources have told Beef Central that Hancock Ag purchased the 6856ha aggregation from the Findley family, who have lived in the area for three generations. The transaction […]
Indonesian live cattle trade at the crossroads
The live cattle trade between northern Australia and Indonesia has been an amazingly successful international trade phenomenon for most of the last 30 years. The resilience of the business model has been demonstrated on two separate occasions when the trade suddenly halted. The first was the Asian financial collapse in 1997/98, followed by the Australian […]