New campaign to tackle wild dogs and foxes in the Hunter
A multi-agency campaign is protecting native animals and livestock from the threat of wild dogs and foxes in the Hunter Valley Click to check the original article.
Producers welcome to attend AAABG genetics conference day
A DAY has been set aside for beef producer attendance at this month’s annual Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) conference in Perth. The AAABG hosts an international conference for breeders, livestock scientists and other industry service providers to meet and discuss current research and the application of livestock genetics in […]
Global building giant Lendlease confirms up to 740 jobs to be cut
Property giant Lendlease is slashing 10 per cent of its global workforce, with up to 740 jobs on the chopping block. The shock announcement comes amid a five-year turnaround plan for the builder to deliver “more sustainable” performance following a bruising few years for the construction industry across Australia. In an internal memo to staff, […]
Mort & Co fertiliser in demand ahead of summer crop
Mort & Co has leased this bulk storage at Gurley Station and is using it as a distribution point for granular fertiliser made at Grassdale from feedlot manure. Photo: Ray White Rural Moree ORGANIC fertiliser made at Mort & Co’s Grassdale facility west of Toowoomba is in hot demand as growers gear up for summer-crop […]
Carla Carlisle: ‘You don’t need a map to tell you that East Anglia and Russia are closer than they look’
‘It was like a Tarantino movie where the bad chase the bad,’ says our columnist Carla Carlisle as events in Russia consume her attention. My first English Christmas was spent in Cambridge. The carol service at King’s College Chapel. A heavy snowfall. Icy grandeur. It was beautiful. It was cold. ‘There is nothing between the […]
Competition for bulls at Moreton
There were 524 cattle offered at Moreton on Tuesday. Click to check the original article.
Well known sheep breeders put prized farm aggregation up for sale
Well known stud Merino breeders, the Phillips family, is selling their prized Baldry farm aggregation to focus on expanded holdings at home. Click to check the original article.
Livex market update: Trade volumes subdued despite lower prices
Falling northern Australian feeder cattle prices usually prompt an increase in export cattle shipments to Indonesia, but that hasn’t really happened this year as demand side challenges subdue trade activity. The Girolando Express loading in Darwin. Picture: NTLEA Prices for northern export feeder steers have fallen more than 40 percent so far this year, from […]
Soil carbon presents significant opportunities, but it is hard-going
The Fysh project at Mount Tom, near Gladstone, has become the fourth to receive carbon credits for sequestering carbon in its soil. WHILE the Australian soil carbon industry is starting to get off the ground and credits are being issued, some of the ongoing challenges it will face were unpacked at a three-day conference which […]
Minns government will not use extra-judicial decision making on Liverpool Plains coal seam gas | The Land
“While some planning approval has been granted, the project is far from completely approved and without significant support from the Minns Labor Government, Santos’ Narrabri Pilliga gas project will not be able to operate on its own merits,” she said. Click to check the original article.
No government intervention on coal seam gas
Premier will not intercede in “lawfully entered into” coal seam gas project. Click to check the original article.
Dissident finds success at stud | The Land
Recent Dissident city winners include Outlandos, who won the Stayers Cup at Randwick and was placed second in the Grafton Cup-LR; Oakfield Waratah, winning two Saturday Sydney races, Covert Rose winning at Belmont Park, as well as geldings New Republic and Malabar, who made it a quinella at Canterbury last week. Click to check the […]