Western Australia’s Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan has come under fire for media comments suggesting that an outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease would not be catastrophic and that staple grocery items could even be made cheaper if the contagious disease enters Australia. Comments by the WA Ag Minister in an article that appeared […]
A MAJOR sheep meat abattoir in central New South Wales has its products back on the rail after a horror month of landslips and derailments caused by widespread flooding. In the past fortnight, almost all access to Sydney was cut for Dubbo-based Fletcher International Exports, which sends most of its product through Port Botany. The […]
WHILE retail beef prices across Australia declined marginally last quarter compared to the previous March quarter, they have risen 14.6pc over the past 12 months, a new consumer research report shows. An Australian Food and Grocery price Index developed by popular consumer grocery comparison app Frugl found that beef showed the largest year-on-year increase of […]
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Downs Rugby players comprise a third of the 2022 Queensland Country Heelers senior men’s side including Brian Chong Nee, Peter Welsh, Will Jackson (Toowoomba Bears), Michael Debney, John Vinson (Toowoomba Rangers), Sam Warby (Condamine Cods), and Levi Power (Goondiwindi Emus). Click to check the original article.
Footbaths will be of “minimum effectiveness” says Alannah MacTiernan. Click to check the original article.
William Porteous Properties International agent Peter Robertson said the owners have decided to move because their chidren have been accepted into university in Europe. Click to check the original article.
This week, The Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan turns up the heat on industry identity David Larkin, head of the Kimberley Meat Co processing business near Broome. David Larkin How has this year’s decline in live export activity out of northern Australia impacted Australia’s most remote beef processing establishment? Is the labour access issue […]
We continue our weekly series of Mount Isa’s early history, in the lead-up to the 100th anniversary of the city next year. Click to check the original article.
The Bradford family, Hillcroft Farms UltraWhite stud, Popanyinning, exhibited the supreme Australian cleanskin exhibit ram or ewe at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show at Bendigo, Victoria, last week. With the ram were interbreed judges Paul Routley (left), Almondvale Poll Merino and White Suffolk studs, Urana, New South Wales, Brendan Mansbridge, Brooklyn Park Poll Dorset […]
In total, more than 100 nominations from across Australia and New Zealand were received for this year’s award program, with finalists competing in six different categories, including Agriculture Service Technician of the Year, Construction & Forestry Service Technician of the Year, Turf Service Technician of the Year, Service Apprentice of the Year, Parts Technician of […]
A man has died in floodwaters at Nanango this morning. Click to check the original article.