It was designed by WA tractor mechanic Bob Chamberlain in the late 1930s, but put on hold during World War II, before the State government encouraged Bob and his brother Bill, who also dabbled in designing and building racing cars and racing boats, to set up a tractor manufacturing factory in Welshpool. Click to check […]
Chriss Chinn, Missouri director of agriculture, joins the broadcast virtually to talk about the Missouri State Fair, as well as crop conditions in the state and mental health awareness. The state has launched a local help line, staffed with people who have agriculture and farming knowledge. 833-897-2474 is available 24/7, 365, and you can also […]
Captain Matthew Webb was famously the first man to successfully swim the English Channel — or was he? Martin Fone investigates. Like Everest, it presents an irresistible challenge to the adventurous, simply because, to echo George Mallory, it’s there. At its narrowest point — between Shakespeare’s Beach at Dover and Cap Gris Nez, a headland between Calais […]
Research points to the short and long-term impacts of weaner mismanagement. Click to check the original article.
More and more travellers are abandoning traditional holidays in favour of staying on a working farm. Rosie Paterson investigates why and where to find the best. ‘It’s funny how these things come back with a different label,’ muses Julian Matthews, the founding and managing director of Real Wild Estates. He’s talking about agritourism, the meeting […]
The inaugural Aussie Angus Brangus bull sale exceeded all of the host vendors expectations on Saturday. Click to check the original article.
Block 11 keeping its vegetables organic, delicious and fresh. Click to check the original article.
2022 High Country Droughtmaster bulls to $18,000, females to $12,500. Click to check the original article.
The annual event is one of the most highly anticipated in the region. Click to check the original article.
“Heartland sale genetics have gone into leading studs in Queensland and New South Wales, though our sale is very much focussed on our commercial clients, where many bulls have found new homes in operations in Roma, Injune, Morven, Mitchell, Surat, St George, Amby, Tambo, Wallumbilla, Yuleba, Taroom and Wandoan areas. Heartland vendors appreciate the continuing […]
Tiffany Daneff visits a recently built property in the Home Counties, which proves that, with forethought, a new garden needn’t look new. Photographs by Marianne Majerus. How do you make an imposing new house sit easily in its setting, not to mention look comfortable in the landscape? This was the key question for the designer […]
“Only this last month, the local engineering team had finished assembly of the Imperial, making adjustments and small repairs with a fresh 110 year service test run, it is more than capable of pulling a plough, harrow or harvester just as it had been designed to do in 1912 although now it’s in retirement and […]