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Western Qld’s Sam Curr to launch on-farm carbon measurement app

Sam Curr A WESTERN Queensland-based Marcus Oldham graduate is set to release an app to assist producers in measuring their carbon footprint, with the aim of streamlining an industry-standard methodology. The app is based off the Sheep and Beef Greenhouse Accounting Framework calculator, otherwise known as SB- GAF, which has been promoted by organisations like […]

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Angus heifers top $4400 in Elders sale at Boyanup | Farm Weekly

Lindsay Bagshaw (second right), Young Guns Murray Grey stud, Hyden, holding son Seth, sold three pens of heifers (20 head) to a top of $4000 and an average of $3870. With Mr Bagshaw in front of his top-priced pen were Elders trainee Alex Tunstill (left), Elders, Brunswick/Harvey agent Craig Martin, who purchased the pen for […]

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A Holiday Home Renovation in a Rural Queensland Town

Through years of hard work and a true team effort, an extended family has transformed a previously “uninhabitable” weekender in Queensland’s laceys creek. A penny for your thoughts: how many times would you say you’ve dropped a coin, only for it to disappear from right under you? Hazarding a guess, it would be more than […]

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Woolies to close in-store butcheries due to consumer demand changes and labour challenges

THE nation’s largest supermarket retailer, Woolworths, will close 250 of its 300 in-store butcheries across Australia and make about 490 staff redundant under plans revealed to staff this week. Around 300 of Woolworths 1000 nationwide carry in-store butcheries, leaving only around 50 ‘flagship’ stores, mostly in capital cities, offering an over-the counter service. The remainder […]

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