This week’s column is going to be all about cows. The feeder run was light this week and the best way to describe it was things got out of balance, which was great if you were buying. I also want to mention that I will be speaking at the Missouri Livestock Symposium in Kirksville MO. […]
A dose of 1980s cultural nostalgia is always welcome, but economic nostalgia? No thanks. Inflation and interest rates are heading in a direction not seen since the 1980s, and that is a major worry for whoever ends up running the country by this time next week, says Toby Keel. As a kid growing up in […]
Global pork and chicken production is forecast to rise next year while beef production is expected to be lower. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently released a report providing a glimpse into 2023’s animal protein production outlook. According to the report, global beef production is forecast fractionally lower in 2023 as falling […]
Tess Newall has taken time off from painting murals to design a collection of wallpaper and lampshades, finds Eleanor Doughty. Photographs by Alun Callender. As a small child, Tess Newall would paint on the floor of her mother Sally Oyler’s studio. Aged seven, she graduated to depicting a sunset on her bedroom wall, ‘red at […]
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development research officer Oonagh Byrne said in order to kill grain pests at all stages of their life cycle – egg, larvae, pupae, adult – growers should refer to the phosphine label instructions regarding dosage, treatment, ventilation and withholding times. Click to check the original article.
Max Armstrong reports on a recent lawsuit filed against EPA regarding enforcement of clean water rules for what the groups call factory farms. The groups, led by Food and Water Watch, claim that under the Clean Water Act EPA has not done enough to protect the water supply from concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. […]
As a result of the strong local and Eastern States’ enquiry, the Veitch family, Kaya stud, along with the Prieska Dorper stud, Mt Barker, Dalma Dorper stud, Narrogin and the Sundridge White Dorper stud, Spencers Brook, which sold by invitation, achieved a total clearance over the 187 rams and ewes offered. Click to check the […]
Hazeldean’s well-established clientele purchased rams for the Clare Valley, South Australia, Jugiong, Cootamundra, Carrathool, Blackall, Queensland, Bombala, Burren Junction, throughout Victoria and the western Riverina, plus there were some fresh faces in attendance. Click to check the original article.
The three-bed penthouse apartment at Bliss Mill fuses contemporary style with historic substance, resulting in a timeless property that would suit any taste. It’s not our most common saying, but in the 12th century, the words ‘in Europe, the best wool is English, and in England, the best wool is Cotswold’ were oft uttered. Grade […]
Jembrae Droughtmasters, Leeville, achieved the top price at this year’s Roma Droughtmaster Sale. Click to check the original article.
The countryside filled the Matilda author Roald Dahl with joy and proved a constant source of inspiration, as Matthew Dennison reveals in a new biography of the prolific storyteller. Roald Dahl’s attachment to the country ran deep. In the year he died, he claimed that he had ‘never lived in a town or city in […]
Larger crowds visited the second day of the Australian National Field Days at Borenore. Click to check the original article.