Area challenges for booming oat market
More than 90 per cent of oat milling takes place in six areas around the world. Click to check the original article.
Droughtmaster weaner steers sell for $1755 at Woodford | Queensland Country Life
Symbol D Grazing, Woolmar, sold Charolais cross steers for $2000 and $1850, Angus weaner males for $1660 and Charbray male calves for $1500. Jeffery Shallcross, Kilcoy, sold Charbray weaner steers for $1590. Darcy Pratten, Mt Kilcoy, sold a Brangus bull for $2340 and cows for $1790. Charlton Enterprises, Reesville, sold Droughtmaster steer calves for $1450. […]
Chinchilla Grandfather Clock 2022 day two results | Queensland Country Life
Charters Towers competitor, Will Durkin is in great form, after the second day of competition he features as the current leader of the Black Truck & Ag Chinchilla Grandfather Clock riding Barefoot VIP with 91 points and are equal leaders in the Knudsen Family Restricted Open. Click to check the original article.
Feedlot industry 'a way of life' for award winner Bec Donnelly
The Roma Feedlot and Spelling Yard’s leader was recognised for her work at the BeefEx Conference. Click to check the original article.
Grass fever lifts cattle demand | Prime market update
Producers with paddocks full of feed are driving the high demand for light and medium weight yearling cattle. Click to check the original article.
Potholes cause crisis in regional rural NSW transport | The Land
If successive Australian and state governments had listened to their rural and regional communities and worked in collaboration to ‘Build better before’ perhaps the current crisis in regional rural transport might have been averted, and the infrastructure might have been “stronger, better, and more able to withstand the challenge posed by (the current) natural disasters”. […]
Global Smart Commodity Group adds live cattle trading to platform
Global Smart Commodity Group, a multi-asset class commodities exchange, has announced that Salus, the commodities trading platform built on blockchain technology, will begin providing live cattle as a traded commodity. Intended to speed up the commodity trading process, there will be two available types of live cattle offered on the platform: live cattle and feeder […]
CoBank: Efforts to temper inflation, cool economy will continue
The Federal Reserve is finding it harder to cool the economy than almost anyone expected. Most corners of the U.S. economy are performing very well considering the Fed has been aggressively raising rates for seven months. Manufacturing continues to expand, consumer spending remains strong, the labor market is still extremely tight and Q3 GDP data […]
Fall is a Key Culling Decision Time for Cow-calf Operations
Being an extension economist in a feeder cattle state, I don’t know how many times I have said, “This calf market needs some green grass!” Nothing fuels calf prices like spring pasture and the opposite typically occurs in the fall. As pasture growth comes to a close, the full impact of feed prices are felt […]
Interior sets $210m for Western drought resilience
The U.S..Interior Department has announced $210 million in funding from the recently enacted infrastructure bill for Western water storage and conveyance, including $137 million for projects in California’s Central Valley. The projects are expected to develop over 1.7 million acre-feet of additional water storage capacity, enough water to support 6.8 million people for a year, […]
The American airman’s portrait of 1940s England that portrays a world that’s already disappeared
A chance encounter with a book stall opens the eyes of our columnist Agromenes as he sees England through the eyes of an American airman. Every year, the local church fête is the cause of domestic tension. It’s simply that Agromenes cannot resist the book stall and, despite earnest entreaties, always returns with yet more […]
Smithfield’s Kailen Hodgson wins Young Lot Feeder award + VIDEO
A SMITHFIELD feedlot manager has taken out this year’s Young Lot Feeder of the Year award for his work on creating autogenous vaccines for bovine respiratory disease in cattle. Kailen Hodgson received the award at BeefEx gala dinner in Brisbane on Wednesday night. His Young Lot Feeder award predecessor and 2021 winner James Guest was […]