THE process of developing Estimated Breeding Values for a breed or even for a new operation within a breed requires a degree of commitment, if it is to generate the information that can aid prospective bull breeders and future clients. There is a lot of data that needs to be collected if the EBVs that […]
The Lockyer Valley Regional Council says the proposed route would affect the ‘nation’s salad bowl’ for 100 years. Click to check the original article.
BULL prices continue to dominate discussion among cattle producers as records continue to tumble for beef breeds this month. While much of the focus is on the knock-down price for bulls and the records being set, there is a growing number of producers thinking about breeding their own bulls for potential use or sale […]
Farmland prices have been rocketing higher over the past two years, but can they keep going? David Goodfellow from CBRE Agribusiness looks at where the market is heading. PLUS our new segment on young innovators in agriculture, featuring the Four Daughters beef creators. Click to check the original article.
There’s been further rises in Queensland export processors’ slaughter grid offers this week – driven in no small part by intense competition for local slaughter cattle from southern Australian processors who are being starved of cattle at home. Two prominent cattle buyers suggested that five or six southern processor buyers (including Bindaree) operating at the […]
ICMJ students touring Mort & Co’s Grassdale feedlot, south Dalby. STUDENTS from the Australia’s Intercollegiate Meat Judging program are this week travelling through Southern Queensland to hear from lot feeders, processors and the industry’s peak marketing body. ICMJ run the intensive education and development week for students selected from the national conference and competition held […]
Christian Duff, General Manager Genetic Improvement, Angus Australia, Sam Clark, Associate Professor in Animal Genetics School of Environmental and Rural Science UNE, Tom Granleese, Animal Breeding and Genetics. Photo: Angus Australia THE Australian beef industry has launched a $15 million research project, examining the genetic traits of methane emissions in beef cattle. The research is […]
Australia will be more prepared to respond to any future biosecurity outbreak, after four weeks of rigorous testing of national biosecurity and emergency management plans by the Exotic Animal Diseases Preparedness Taskforce. Federal Agriculture minister Murray Watt meeting with AgForce cattle president Will Wilson at Raglan Station last month. In a report received by the […]
Carla Carlisle may be a free-born American, but she doffs her cap to the late Queen, the new King, and how Britain’s centuries-old balancing act can trump the whims of political mood in a republic. For years, I defended my affection for the Royal family with a quote from the dark comedy Harold and Maude. […]
Light weight yearling steers under 200kg returning to the paddock made to 750c/kg. A fair selection of yearling steers under 280kg also to restockers made to 678c to average 635c/kg. Yearling steers to feed averaged from 552c to 568c with sales to 638c with restockers paying to 676c/kg for steers in the same weight range. […]
First time entrant in the Garryowen taken out prestigious horse competition. Click to check the original article.
The Baker family, Eidsvold, sold Droughtmaster weaner steers eight months for $1850 and Angus cross steers for $1890 and $1780. Short N Tall Farming, Beaudesert, sold Angus cross steers 12-14 months to $1810. Charbray steers 10 months account Cair Conditioning, Mt Sylvia, sold for $1980 and the Droughtmaster steers sold to $1770. Click to check […]