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Animal artistry

Muttama artist Cathy Hamilton draws inspiration from the animals around her to create her graphite masterpieces. Click to check the original article.

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Pro-rodeo keeps growing

There are five new rodeos on the Australian Professional Rodeo Association’s event calendar in the next couple of months. Click to check the original article.

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Casino saleyards fee rise draws ire of agents and vendors but council adamant it won’t subsidise private enterprise at a cost to ratepayers. | The Land

However, Casino Combined Agents’ president Andrew Summerville said the concern voiced at this week’s council meeting by those selling livestock was that this blanket fee could be adopted for all sales, not just one-off events like the July All Breed sale, which is scheduled for the last Saturday of this month. Click to check the […]

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Research aims to help avocado industry flourish

Pest control was also on the agenda at the event, such as a project on post-harvest fungicide treatments to improve fruit quality in adverse harvest conditions, which was undertaken in response to an industry request Click to check the original article.

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Federal Govt launches carbon farming review

THE newly elected Federal Government has taken the tenth anniversary of Australia’s carbon market to announce a review of some of the controversial methods used to generate credits. Federal minister for climate change and energy Chris Bowen has announced former chief scientist Professor Ian Chubb will head up the carbon farming review. Mr Bowen said he […]

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Air Beef: When the Kimberley cattle industry took flight

The port town of Wyndham below the Bastion Range in northern WA. Picture: Kimberley Port Authority. BARELY a trace of what was once the largest meatworks in the Southern Hemisphere remains at Wyndham today. But the location of its various buildings can still be traced from the Five Rivers Lookout above, perched atop the Bastion […]

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