Major flaws exist in the AusVetPlan’s approach to compensation for stock losses associated with any outbreak of Foot & Mouth Disease in Australia, independent analyst Simon Quilty told an industry gathering on the Gold Coast yesterday. Speaking during the Rural Marketing Agents (RMA Network) annual conference, Mr Quilty painted an alarming picture about the financial […]
AFTER a year of record-breaking prices extending beyond predictions, the cattle market has started to recede, with processors dropping grids and the saleyards softening. The benchmark Eastern Young Cattle Indicator has this week dropped to 977c/kg carcase weight after going well above 1,100c in January – mostly coming off the boil in the past month. […]
The Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) opened applications for its national grants program on Friday, which will remain open until August 19, 2022. Click to check the original article.
The Port of Darwin shipped 231,552 cattle in 2021-22, back from a five year average of 333,692. AUSTRALIAN cattle shipments fell to 43,474 head in June, a 53 percent decline on the five-year-average for the month, according to shipping data released earlier today. Exports to Indonesia, which is experiencing a fast spreading outbreak of foot […]
New appointment follows merger of large lamb and beef exporter. Click to check the original article.
Are you a future leader within the Australian beef industry, or do you know someone who could be? The Australian Beef Industry Foundation (ABIF) is offering the opportunity for six people aged 21–40 years to attend a one-week Rural Leadership Program at Marcus Oldham College in Geelong, Victoria, in August 2022. Who is eligible? Applicants […]
Mount Isa Mines planning for end of Lady Loretta in 2025 Click to check the original article.
Strangely, Australia’s richest camel races had its beginnings with a sale of camels to the royal family in Abu Dhabi and the rest as they say is history, with Boulia Camel Races touted the ‘Melbourne Cup of Camel Racing’, racing off this weekend in Outback Queensland to mark its 25th anniversary. Click to check the […]
WA property market not slowing down. Click to check the original article.
We continue our series on when Mount Isa truly was the Wild West, hurly burly days in the early 1920s. Click to check the original article.
Total clearance at Booragul Angus sale with a top of $50,000 for a $19,304 average. Click to check the original article.
It gets over a metre of rain a year, has nearly 10 kilometres of water frontage and is just shy of 1000 acres. The three statistics make the 391-hectare (966 acre) property known both as Karinya Vale and Mukki at Nowendoc on NSW’s Northern Tablelands something of a triple treat. Click to check the original […]