Cattle sold to a cheaper market at Bega store sale last Friday. Click to check the original article.

The stand-off in the pregnancy tested in-calf heifer market continued this week, with the 1573 head offered reaching a clearance rate of 21pc. Of those lines that sold, prices averaged $246/head higher, at $2326/head, while PTIC cows jumped $140, to average $2246/head. Click to check the original article.

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Sanitation mats are set to serve as a physical reminder for passengers to do the right thing. Click to check the original article.

“Our biggest catch cry at Coolmunda is we tread softly. We’re trying to make this land a better place for our having been here, so we’d like to have a viable agribusiness but with assisting and working with the land rather than causing it damage,” Ms Baker said. Click to check the original article.

Grain colour won’t be a big issue for barley in the 2023-24 harvest. Click to check the original article.

“The key factor responsible for the mass dieback appears to have been the sudden 40-centimetre drop in sea level that lasted for about six months, coinciding with no rainfall, killing vast areas of mangroves,” he said. “Essentially, the trees died of thirst.” Click to check the original article.

Robbie Katter says the disposal of the LPG bowser in Mount Isa is an indicator that the government is not taking Australia’s fuel security seriously. Click to check the original article.

Natural resource management experts say any efforts to reduce a rapidly rising feral pig population, as a means of mitigating the spread of livestock diseases in Australia, must be sustained and strategic, not done by lone rangers. Click to check the original article.

A sudden 40-centimetre drop in the sea level in the Gulf of Carpentaria has been found to be the cause of what’s described as the worst incidence of climate-related mass tree dieback that has ever occurred globally. Click to check the original article.