NSW beef and sheep producer Angus Hobson, a former chairman of the Southern Australian Meat Research Council and past CEO of the Red Meat Advisory Council, offers his thoughts on Australia’s threat from FMD in nearby Indonesia, and how best to manage it LET me get straight to the point. The irony of […]
NLRS feeder steer price trend – July 2021 to July 2022 FEEDER cattle prices continue to head south at a rapid – some might say alarming – rate, buffeted by a series of headwinds created both within, and outside Australia. While it had started a little earlier, the trend has become much more extreme […]
Federal Minister for Agriculture Murray Watt flagged further biosecurity measures when he addressed the NSW Farmers conference this week. FOOT and Mouth Disease fragments have been found in meat products in Melbourne and in an undeclared beef product imported by a passenger travelling from Indonesia where FMD continues to spread in livestock. Federal Agriculture Minister […]
The annual national championships were held at Toogoolawah. Click to check the original article.
QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane said the most in-demand resources jobs for 2022 included; metallurgists, automation engineers, heavy diesel fitters, auto electricians, geologists, environmental engineers, operations technicians, facility engineers, mechanical engineers and mining engineers. Click to check the original article.
A joint project by the State government and Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), the WA Farming Systems project will explore a range of farming practices including crop diversity, expanded seeding windows and integrating greenhouse gas mitigation strategies to help improve the resilience of the State’s farms to varying climatic conditions and markets. Click to […]
“We have set up 18 of these multi-agency collaborative panels across the state, they are in all the big centres like Mount Isa, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay, Logan, Gold Coast; and that brings together all the taskforce agencies to meet regularly and locally. Click to check the original article.
Tanya Plibersek delivering an address to the National Press Club in response to the State of the Environment report. Picture: Twitter FEDERAL environment minister Tanya Plibersek has raised some eyebrows after she announced the government had plans to protect 30 percent of the country’s land by 2030 – with increasing the number of national parks […]
Around 85 per cent of Queensland’s cotton crops have been harvested, with most pushed back by several weeks due to wet weather. Click to check the original article.
What is the difference between the futures price and a local pricing point? Click to check the original article.
The police case is that the man did a u-turn on a highway, pulled over near MP Barnaby Joyce and threatened the federal police officer assigned to protect him. Click to check the original article.
Viral fragments of foot and mouth disease have been detected at Australia’s border, as the nation’s biosecurity is ramped up. The fragments of the virus, which threaten to devastate Australia’s cattle industry, were found in a small number of food products imported from overseas, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has confirmed. While there was no live […]