Also in from Kojonup were 47 steers (three pens) weighing 294-385kg from the Jones family, Wembley Park, which sold between 258-274ckg to return $793-$994, while Howard Farms, Mt Barker, sold 54 steers (three pens) weighing 282-354kg for 258-286c/kg to return $806-$914 and the Smith family, SA & SH Smith, Narrikup, sold 51 steers (three pens) […]
After growing vegetables for 18 months I’m still learning from my mistakes. Click to check the original article.
Clairdon is a productive 547 hectare mixed farming operation located in the sought after Collie district. Click to check the original article.
Retired farmers breathe life into rural communities. Click to check the original article.
Talk of the Town: Finding my place on the station Click to check the original article.
State and territory Young Australian of the Year Award winners in line to be named 2024 Young Australian of the Year on January 25 include, clockwise from left, Olympic swimmer Emma McKeown (from Queensland), nurse and multicultural community organiser Bhakta Bahadur Bhattarai (Victoria), Tasmanian actor, musician and Indigenous activist Naarah and co-chair of the Australian […]
Country Life’s Travel Editor Rosie Paterson joins the podcast to share her wisdom, experience — and a disturbing number of blunders. Country Life magazine’s Rosie Paterson has the enviable task of travelling the world in order to report on where to go, when and why. She’s also — and she probably won’t mind us saying this — developed […]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a pilot program to allow more cattle producers and meat processors to access better markets through the USDA’s official beef quality grading and certification. The Remote Grading Pilot for Beef, developed by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, matches simple technology with robust data management and program oversight to allow a […]
The statement “Nature abhors a vacuum” has been on my mind lately. For those who may not know that is the idea that unfilled spaces go against the laws of nature and physics and that every space needs to be filled with something. When I was younger, I had a difficult time grasping this, today […]
A moderate to strong El Nino-driven weather pattern remains in control across the Northern Hemisphere. An unseasonably mild spell of weather through much of the month of December extended across much of the Heartland. However, it was a stormy and excessively wet weather-related setup that impacted much of the eastern states, resulting in flooding in […]
In the cow-calf production system, reproductive efficiency is the No. 1 driver of profitability. “That’s how this business works,” says James Rogers, North Dakota State University Extension forage crops production specialist. “We market the offspring from our herds. No offspring, no profit.” Rogers references a measure of reproductive performance used in the swine industry called […]
Agromenes reflects on the Post Office scandal, and implores that we learn from the mistakes AGROMENES was among the first to reveal the Post Office computer scandal, but it has taken a brilliant ITV series to make the nation realise what terrible damage it did. It was here in this column that we highlighted the […]