RECENT years have seen an extension in the traditional bull selling periods each year. The ‘Spring’ selling season now extends from late June through until November. At the other end of the year, Autumn sales are scheduled to commence in February and will most likely run through until May and into early June, meaning […]
Press on or turn back? Jason Goodwin tells a story of his friend’s navigational disaster and finds more wisdom in it than the odd missed road sign might suggest. The other day, an Indian friend told me about her experience visiting England with her husband for the first time, in the early 1980s. That was […]
Boasting a total yarding of 28,056, the prices exceeded even Mr Fitzpatrick’s estimations with a yard of 653 May/June 2022 drop, September shorn North Run Pastoral wethers out of Wanganella reaching a top of $136. In total, 11,484 wethers were sold to an average of $94.18. Click to check the original article.
This video explains how to identify pasture dieback and outlines the contributing factors. Click to check the original.
Cattle sales have returned to central Queensland this week, with surprising market trends appearing at the Gin GIn store sale on Monday. Click to check the original article.
Numbers were back at the Tamworth store sale, and prices reflected markets across the region. Click to check the original article.
In this video, beef producer Owen Price talks about the impact of pasture dieback on his business and outlines management … Click to check the original.
FUNDING to support Australian farmers to demonstrate their sustainable farming practices has been announced by the Federal Government. The $4 million in funding under the National Agriculture Traceability Sustainability Reporting Uplift program is available to peak industry bodies, research organisations and consortia applicants. Minister for Agriculure Murray Watt, left, talks to delegates at the Global […]
Rumin8 CEO David Messina WEST Australian climate technology company Rumin8 has closed Phase 2 of its seed funding round, with investments from the Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) and Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s agri-food business Harvest Road Group. The funding will be used to accelerate Rumin8’s road to commercialisation. Rumin8’s lead product claims to […]
The CalfWatch system One of the alert ‘gateways’ used in the CalfWatch project. Mr Schatz and his team, worked closely with researchers from the University of Florida to modify existing system using birth sensors. The modifications increased the range and usability of the birth sensors in locations with limited mobile phone coverage. “The intra-vaginal birthing […]
ANY way it is sliced and diced, labour access is shaping up as a key limiting factor in Australian red meat processing output, and hence potential slaughter cattle demand, during 2023. Last year was plagued at times by labour shortages due to COVID sickness issues, lack of overseas assisted visa labour and the general underlying […]
He lived, worked and travelled to remote communities up north in the Gulf of Carpentaria, down south as far as Bedourie, Hughenden in the east and out west to the Northern Territory border, providing healthcare to people who may otherwise not have access to it. Click to check the original article.