Despite interest rates heading north and livestock prices going south, confidence in agriculture and land rural land values remains incredibly strong. Here are 10 rural properties primary producers would love in their Christmas stocking. Riverfront, Gundagai/Tumut Highly productive South West Slopes property Riverfront is described as being to run some 300 cows and calves or […]
High quality pastures, areas established with native trees and areas established to native pastures, featured at a recent Upper Hunter Mining Dialogue Pasture Restoration Field Day. Click to check the original article.
Our weekly selection of the best homes to come to the market via Country Life includes an impossibly romantic Hampshire home with the sort of covered walkway you’d see in a film from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Hampshire — £7,000,000 A captivating property accessed via a grand, meandering driveway, nestled within approximately 23 acres […]
Mark Diacono names the best broad beans for flavour, reliability, tenderness and the beauty of the plant itself. A while ago, when renting, we spent a year without a garden. In many ways, it was a refreshing break from the commitments a garden presents, offering the chance to daydream about what I’d like to do […]
Skeleton weed competes with crops for nitrogen and soil moisture, impacting yields and quality. Click to check the original article.
These 67 Angus steers 8-10 months averaging 219kg from Glen Alice, NSW returned $690/head or 315c/kg and will travel to a buyer near Glenrowan West, VIC. CATTLE listings lifted 12 percent total 6151 head on AuctionsPlus last week, with young heifers continuing to strengthen in price and young steer categories mostly firm on earlier gains. […]
Training a dog into a night-time routine is a lot easier if you have a space for them to call their own — but what happens if you don’t? Ben Randall explains more. The fact that our canine friends get so attached to us, and are always so pleased to see us, is one of the […]
The restoration of the ruined tower house that is Ballone Castle in Easter Ross — the home of Lachie and Annie Stewart — has created the opportunity for a remarkable contemporary essay in the spirit of the Arts-and-Crafts Movement, as Mary Miers discovers. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life. Limewashed the colour of ripened […]
The pair from St George were married by Hayley Rodgers on November 3. Click to check the original article.
A crop of the Reynolds Pastoral Company’s dual-purpose Illabo wheat ripening at Maimuru and judged this week in the Young Wheat Competition. Photo: Jeshua Smith, Growmore Ag MODEST yields from the harvest to date are limiting traded volume as consumers sit on their hands and wait for bigger crops further south to hit the bins. […]
Cotton is off to a steady start, but after the cool, wet start last year many growers in the Riverina were pleased to plant on time and see it emerge. Southern Valley Cotton Growers Association president Joe Briggs said there had been about 82,000 hectares planted in the Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and Murray valleys, just less […]
The Lachlan River holds a special place in the hearts of Kara and Sam Fensom. Click to check the original article.