While he recognising the benefits of renewables to the Shire and Queensland, Banana Shire Council mayor Nev Ferrier is emphasising the importance of landowners understanding their rights and not entering into land access agreements without adequate legal representation. Click to check the original article.
Building sustainable food supply chains in the beef, pork, poultry and dairy sectors will be in focus at the Toowoomba and Surat Basin Enterprise’s annual Protein Conference to be held in Dalby on March 22. “Everyday we get one day closer to our 2030 carbon neutral deadline, but the time is now to introduce measures […]
THE successful trial of a newly designed buffalo handler is set to help remote contract mustering teams and indigenous land managers undertake ear-tag and horn-tipping procedures on freshly caught free range wild animals with greater safety and efficiency. The prototype, part of a research collaboration between the NT Buffalo Industry Council and AgriFutures, was designed […]
A COMBINATION of drier conditions in some areas, plus cattle weights that are ‘months heavier’ than normal have pushed more direct consignment cattle to market during the closing stages of February, resulting in some big adjustments to processor grid prices this week. Some Queensland offers have fallen as much as 20-30c/kg this week, while others […]
Yarding 1200 Change 0 File picture of selling action at Wodononga. It was a very mixed plain offering with some stock showing the effects of the hot weather. Trade cattle were limited with the bulk of the better finished stock vealers. Domestic buyers were selective triggered by the plainer offering. Most of the usual buyers […]
WITH more than $2.7 billion invested in cell-based technology start ups, some big money is backing the potential of lab-grown proteins to massively disrupt the global meat industry. But away from the sector’s own predictions, what do independent experts in the technology have to say about its realistic growth prospects? With a distinguished career in […]
A full day of festivities is planned for the town’s centenary. Click to check the original article.
The Whiteface breed is proving to be perfectly suited to the grass fed beef industry Click to check the original article.
With a plan to spend $4bil in the next ten years, Mr Stead believes it’s “counter intuitive” to provide rebates Click to check the original article.
Disaster assistance has been extended across more northern and central Queensland towns after extreme monsoonal rainfall and flooding. Click to check the original article.
SOME clear signs have emerged this week that the US beef industry production cycle is now starting to turn, following the effects of sustained drought across a large footprint of the nation’s cattle heartland last year. As Beef Central regular US columnist Steve Kay reported in Cattle Buyers Weekly on Friday, January feedlot placements in […]
A total of 1248 head were yarded for Tuesday’s sale. Click to check the original article.