There are three critical time periods that occur during drought. These are immediately before, during, and following drought. These phases appear to be separate and are usually described as such. However, there is overlap between them that may encompass a period of six to nine months. The goal of drought planning before a drought occurs […]
The globe’s most popular instrument – in all its shapes, sizes and forms – will be centre stage at the upcoming Strings Attached: The Western Australian Guitar Festival, where about 5000 players, makers, collectors and enthusiasts will come together in Margaret River for three days which are all about guitars and their string cousins – […]
Max Armstrong discusses a smartphone app that helps farmers find labor. Three Iowa women created Farmmee, which is designed to connect farmers to other farmers to get farm-hand help. The digital help-wanted app allows farmers list what they need and those that provide those services can apply to help. Max shares how the innovative approach […]
Best known for pioneering the poll Merino breed in Queensland, Ken Riley OAM has died at the age of 93 at his home in Kojonup, Western Australia. Click to check the original article.
His output includes a few hundred instruments scattered around the world and into the hands of some world-famous musicians. Click to check the original article.
Morden Brook is described as an ideal fattening and/or backgrounding property with the capacity for cultivation. Click to check the original article.
Cattle prices have been moving higher, but not to the same extent as beef prices. For the first eight months of this year, fed-steer prices are 18.9% above the 2018-19 average for January-August. Feeder steer prices are up 13.2%. While these are solid increases, they fail to match the rise in Choice boxed beef prices […]
Two bulls shared the top-selling honours on day one. Click to check the original article.
“There are not many backdrops as dramatic as the rugged outback landscape of Cloncurry. The red ranges, spinifex and waterways have already played host to Channel 10’s Survivor in 2021, and now in a wonderful serendipity, we have The Bank Manager, written and produced by two brilliant Outback Queensland-born creatives, and starring some of Australia’s […]
Conservationist Greg Pickup chooses a portrait of an early gay rights activist that is simultaneously shabby yet charismatic. Greg Pickup on Edward Carpenter by Roger Fry ‘The radical early gay-rights activist Edward Carpenter is a personal hero of mine. His influence in his lifetime was enormous, but he is, unfairly, almost unknown today. Fry’s portrait […]
Among some of the strongest vendor averages was Garglen Brahman stud, Moura, which sold nine bulls at an average of $38,111, Yenda, Mundubbera, which sold at an average of $23,833, NSW-based stud Shawnee, which sold four bulls at an average of $20,500 and Carinya J Brahman stud, which sold three bulls at an average of […]
Just over 4000 head were offloaded at the recent Charters Towers store sale. Click to check the original article.