With Australian households wasting over 140,000 tonnes of meat a year, experts say there’s a growing need to understand how people are using, or not able to effectively use, their fridges to reduce meat waste. The RMIT-led report, supported by Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre and Meat and Livestock Australia, combined existing research with new in-depth interviews and […]
Some of the projects the Premier listed included major upgrades to the Bruce Highway, the Rockhampton ringroad, Mackay Port access, the Townsville and Cairns ringroads, the Rookwood Weir, $983 million Fitzroy to Gladstone pipeline and a host of new schools and hospitals. Click to check the original article.
Below average rainfall during September has contributed to significant declines in Total Standing Dry Matter nationally. The Bureau of Meteorology has identified September rainfall was the lowest on record since 1900 and 70.8% below the 1961-90 average. Combined with low soil moisture (in the lowest 30% for all years since 1911) the overall impact on […]
BEEF and lamb retail prices have trended starkly against most other food commodities in quarterly consumer price index data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Latest ABS data for the September quarter clearly shows that softening cattle and sheep prices are beginning to have an impact on the price of red meat […]
A fire burning to the north of Mount Isa has now been burning for a week, and a fire to the east has been burning for more than a week. Click to check the original article.
Yarding 2997 Change -662 Cattle were drawn from NSW Far Western Queensland and the local supply area. All processors operating with 1 to 2 extra buyers sourcing the quality lines of mainly restocker steers with the heifer portion slightly easier. Cows lost ground on last week’s sale with well finished grown steers and bullocks […]
Instead, it pointed out that disaster assistance had been made available for bushfire affected farmers and landholders in seven local government areas, including Kempsey, Mid-Coast and Port Macquarie Hastings LGAs following bushfires on October 16 onwards, plus Inverell, Kyogle, and Tenterfield LGAS (for bushfires on October 13 onwards) and Mid-Western LGA (for bushfires on October […]
Check out Farm Weekly’s Q&A with David Jochinke from late August to see what the new National Farmers Federation president is all about. Click to check the original article.
The plans are for irrigators in the Lower Fitzroy region that have supplemented water allocations or are in the process of finalising a supplemented water allocation either from Rookwood Weir, Eden Bann Weir, or the Fitzroy Barrage. Those with unsupplemented water allocations from the Lower Fitzroy Water Management Area can also participate. Click to check […]
Victorian grain and livestock producer David Jochinke has been elected President of the National Farmers’ Federation, succeeding Fiona Simson who steps down after seven years in the role. Hailing from Murra Warra in western Victoria, Mr Jochinke has served as Vice President of the NFF since 2017, and previously served as President of the Victorian […]
Police are not investigating incident as no complaint made. Click to check the original article.
Artist Huon Kane has won the people’s hearts, named as this year’s Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award recipient with his portrait ‘Smoko’ of Dan Allen and Ed Ross, the duo best known for social impact workwear brand Trademutt. Click to check the original article.