GALLERY: First wholly Indigenous-owned hot air balloon takes off
Traditional owners from the Gulf of Carpentaria launched the very first wholly Indigenous-owned hot air balloon in Canberra this week. Click to check the original article.
Traditional owners from the Gulf of Carpentaria launched the very first wholly Indigenous-owned hot air balloon in Canberra this week. Click to check the original article.
Queensland cane growers have gathered to discuss the issues the industry is facing and plan for the future. Click to check the original article.
You may never have thought to ponder what distinguishes a labyrinth from a maze. But as Martin Fone explains, it’s something of a minefield. In case it has escaped your notice, Saturday May 6th is World Labyrinth Day, an opportunity to celebrate these complex, often maddening marriages of geometry, architecture, and horticulture. According to Labyrinths […]
Commonwealth Bank representatives at the 50th anniversary Wagin Woolorama official opening included Tim Paskov (left), executive relationships, Bunbury, Brendon Kay, regional and agribusiness WA executive manager, Perth and Ben Newton (right) agribusiness executive, Albany, with former Wagin Woolorama president Howard Ward and The Nationals MLC Colin DeGrussa. Click to check the original article.
Ray Batt, Goldenover stud, Cuballing, is known for his Ile de France sheep but at the 50th Wagin Woolorama, he entered three rams from his fledgling Suffolk stud and won champion and reserve champion ram and grand champion Suffolk before continuing on to take the esteemed supreme champion British and Australasian Sheep Breeds animal of […]
The Wise familys Southend Murray Grey stud, Katanning, had a show to remember when they dominated the major awards at the Commonwealth Bank Cattle Expo at this years Wagin Woolorama, capping it off with the supreme cattle exhibit, grand champion multibreed senior cow and champion British Breed senior cow. With their six-year-old cow Southend Reflection […]
A jam-packed weekend includes various events with day one starting at 6:15am, followed by a campdraft, horse sale pre-work, horse sale and presentations, cocktail event and super goal polocrosse, while the second day commences at 7am with the junior, juvenile and open campdraft finals, followed by the campdraft presentations. Click to check the original article.
Queensland Agriculture Minister Mark Furner travelled from Brisbane on Friday to meet with locals, community leaders and primary producers in Gulf communities reeling from extreme flooding more than a week ago. Click to check the original article.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is allocating $15.8 million to 60 projects aimed at combatting diseases that threaten livestock. The projects are spread across 38 states.Funding will come from the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program that was included in the 2018 Farm Bill. “Consistent access to safe, healthy, and affordable food […]
“He’s like an onion. You have to peel him back a layer at a time.” That’s a quote from the movie “The Blind Side.” In peeling an onion, there are many layers, which means a person or situation is more complicated than its surface appears to be. It also means investigating a matter more deeply, […]
USDA recently instituted a Cattle Contracts Library Pilot Program at the urging of the beef industry. The goal is to provide more transparent information for producers to understand price trends in local markets. Jennifer Carrico, Wallaces Farmer, talked with two beef industry representatives during the 2023 National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Cattle Convention in New Orleans to […]
Beef producers in Nebraska and across the nation have seen increased prices and returns over the past year as demand continued to build after the COVID-19 pandemic. Producers still face several challenges and issues, however, as the cow herd shrinks as part of a liquidation phase and as feedstuffs are stretched amid continuing drought concerns […]