Hendra virus was first isolated in September 1994 in horses at a racing stable in Hendra, Brisbane, but two earlier cases in two horses at Mackay, in May 1994, didn’t become apparent until late 1995 when HeV infection was confirmed in a person from Mackay. Click to check the original article.
Named a ‘once in a generation opportunity’ to acquire an exceptional home, Manor Farm still bears the evidence of its Norman past. Penny Churchill takes a look. In the Cotswold AONB, Helen Whitfield of Strutt & Parker’s Oxford office quotes a guide price of £4m for 43-acre Manor Farm at Ascott-under-Wychwood in the lovely Evenlode […]
Queensland Rail is working to remove trail derailed at Nelia, 50km east of Julia Creek. Click to check the original article.
Part 1 Mike Pearson is at the desk this week while Max Armstrong reports from the field talking with famers . Max talks with Mike Pearson talks markets with Duwayne Bosse of Bolt Marketing to talk about the wheat market and a turn to weather for a bigger picture of crops. Then take a look […]
Two country footy teams celebrate their 100th years in a classic derby. Click to check the original article.
Delicate yet fragrant elderflowers make a jam that tastes like an English summer–especially when married with gooseberries, finds Tessa Waugh. There is a special point in an English summer when the season is at its most beautiful. This is elderflower time, when creamy blossoms decorate the hedgerows like bridal bouquets in a sea of green. […]
For Chris, The Land wasn’t simply a job; he lived it, being constantly on the road and working long hours. Accompanying him in the early 1980s in the company Cortina or Falcon cars, colleagues were not surprised to find, in the back seat, a chainsaw, a bag of shot wheat he’d long forgotten about for […]
Burnett locals and visitors have hit the road for the 2022 Taste the Trail. Click to check the original article.
What once kept out hordes of bloodthirsty warriors is, nearly 2,000 years later, barely proof against the most timid of sheep. But if Hadrian’s Wall is now low on stature, it remains high on atmosphere, says Harry Pearson. To look north-eastwards from Walltown Crags in Northumberland is to gaze upon an English wilderness. The ashen […]
Hereford bulls over Santa Gertrudis females to produce firsts cross progeny made the most sense, given the ready access to genetics from Yulgilbar’s Santa Gertrudis stud and to Hereford bulls from Yarram Park at Willaura via Ararat, owned by the Baillieu family and connected through marriage to the Myers, owners of historic Yulgilbar on the […]
It’s a subject being investigated by The University of Western Australia (UWA) PhD student Tanushree Halder, who has identified different root traits – quantitative trait loci (QTL) – such as rooting depth, total root length and root dry mass of wheat, which will help future varities cope with abiotic stresses, such as drought and waterlogging. […]
Preserving herbicide chemistry long-term. Click to check the original article.