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WA’s Western Meat Packers buys Bunbury beef/sheepmeat plant

Western Australian beef and sheepmeat processor Western Meat Packers has bought the mothballed former Goodchild Abattoirs business near Bunbury, in the state’s south. The Goodchild plant closed suddenly in 2020, and was offered to the market unsuccessfully last year by receivers. The former Goodchild Abattoirs site near Bunbury The dual-species site has chilling capacity for […]

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New cybercrime risk for farms and businesses

A change to the way website names are handled could potentially open the door to fraudsters, NSW Farmers has warned. From yesterday, September 20, businesses, associations and individuals with a local connection to Australia can now register “.au” domain names – touted as a way to simplify web addresses – but it also created a […]

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Weekly rainfall update + rain outlook 21 September 2022

A STONG cold front embedded with storms crossed southern Western Australia on the 13th with 30–60 mm totals observed around Busselton. The front continued over south-east Australia on the 15th, connecting with a complex low south of the Bight, bringing significant falls west of the ranges in northern New South Wales and the Queensland border […]

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Roma sale 20 Sep 2022: Yarding builds to 6302

Yarding 6302 Change 4091 Cattle were mostly drawn from the usual supply area, with numbers from Quilpie, McKinlay and Mt Isa included in a good quality yarding. Steers accounted for over half of the yarding. A large buying panel was present and operating. The market lifted, with strong competition as buyers continued to seek frame […]

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