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Coles reports half-year $594m net profit

The nation’s second largest supermarket group, Coles, this morning released its first-half  financial results for the six months to December 30, showing a net profit after tax of $594 million, on pre-tax earnings of $1.9 billion. The supermarket division accounted for the lion’s share of Coles result, including sales of $19.78 billion, up 4.9pc on […]

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Have your say: Modernising agricultural levies

Agricultural levy payers and industry bodies have a chance to give their feedback on draft regulations and rules that are part of modernising the agricultural levies legislation.   Last year, the Australian Government introduced six bills to make agricultural levies legislation simpler and more consistent. The department is now consulting on the draft regulations and […]

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The key issues that have defined each Rocky Beef Expo, since 1988

Today marks the launch of Beef Central’s official preview coverage for the industry’s major Beef 2024 event being staged in Rockhampton in early May. Over the next ten weeks, a comprehensive package of information will be published, designed to guide readers and those attending, or even just keeping track of the event through the information […]

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Russo family’s macadamia venture | Queensland Country Life

Leaving school at 15, Mr Russo worked in the family farm operation that was based around Childers with his parents and three brothers until his father, Harry, died, in 2003, and his mother, Rose, died in 2012, and the operation was split, in 2014, between the four brothers. Click to check the original article.

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Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 27 Feb 2024

DURING the week much of Queensland experienced widespread rainfall, as a slow moving upper level low pressure system produced heavy rainfall to northern Queensland and a series of troughs brought rainfall to northern, central and southern parts of the state. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln brought rainfall to Western Australia’s Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne and Central West districts […]

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Can you help a reader to describe this cattle brand?

Fluent in the language of livestock brands? If so we’re hoping you can help to answer a Beef Central reader’s question. Catherine recently posted a comment on Beef Central’s article about the Morrisey family’s history forging livestock brands and handling equipment in the same Jandowae shed in rural Queensland for more than a century. Catherine […]

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Boston Leather wins PBR event title | The North West Star

Boston was able to follow suit and gain a score of his own to take the round one victory, sharing the chute with another bovine making it’s first PBR appearance in Acid Trips (Robert Bunn), with a nice trip settling into a clockwise trip after a few jumps to clear the chutes and into the […]

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