As his children enter the world of work, Jonathan Self muses on what that means All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair —The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing —And Winter slumbering in the open air,Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!— ‘Work without Hope’, Samuel Taylor Coleridge […]
Mike Pearson takes a look at the 16th annual Potato Expo held in Austin, Texas by the National Potato Council. Buds were the center of attention as over 200,000 people from across the USA and 18 foreign countries gathered together. The number of education and business sessions were doubled at the Potato Expo and one […]
The first few weeks of the New Year are always a challenge for cattle and beef markets. Whether it is January marketings of feeder cattle for tax purposes or post-holiday boxed beef pipeline issues, it always takes a couple of weeks to get a bead on cattle and beef markets in the new year. January 2024 has […]
Rickie-Lee and Aaron Bannister with their children Indigo and Darcy, at their Brookhampton-based property, Westcountry Trading Co, where they also run their own Bio-Mineral Fertiliser and Rural Feed Store and Earth and Dirt compost businesses, and grow their own beef. Click to check the original article.
He put 7000 breeding nannies into the 12,140ha goat-proof section of the 20,235ha property last year so he knew there’d be a sizeable number to muster, but no-one was quite prepared for the sight that confronted them when they were all chased out of the scrub onto the open country. Click to check the original […]
Retirement may not always look like giving up farming. Click to check the original article.
THE 2024 bull selling year has started, with autumn fixtures already underway with Kandanga Valley Charolais and Charbray sale in Gympie taking place last Saturday. The first sale in what appears to be a busy few months, Kandanga averaged $7057 for 35 Charolais and Charbray bulls. The focus of the Autumn sales is generally oriented […]
860 Wheatbelt customers are still without power. Click to check the original article.
With more than two acres of immaculate garden and grounds, five bedroom The Clock Tower in Old Hunstanton is packed with history and charm in an enviable location. Listed Grade II, the moated Victorian The Clock Tower sits in some 2½ acres of secluded gardens and grounds within the parkland of Old Hunstanton Hall, yet […]
You need to avoid being a forced seller Click to check the original article.
“Approximately 61 per cent of our customers in Pittsworth have only visited the branch once in the last year,” it said, adding that 75pc using the branch were also registered for online banking and/or telephone banking, and that more than 69pc were also using other locations, including Clifford Gardens in Toowoomba. Click to check the […]
New project to find the ideal breed for mating with rangeland doe. Click to check the original article.