For grain markets the inclement weather brings great uncertainty, harvest delays, logistical issues – both on-farm and off – and raises questions around grain quality. For those in a position to capitalise, therein lies possible marketing opportunities. Click to check the original article.
Changes to Somerset Regional Council’s wild dog and wild pig bounty payment method will be introduced from November. Click to check the original article.
Philipson Holdings, Cornelia Station, Charters Towers, took home the biggest draft, securing 13 bulls at an average price of $7692, closely followed by Tom Sheahan and Co, Valley of Lagoons, Ingham, with 11 bulls averaging $17,272, and Lawnhill Riversleigh Pastoral, Mt Isa, who took home nine bulls for an average of $5,777. Click to check […]
Bowraville Blueberries is a fully leased horticulture operation on the Mid North Coast of NSW. Click to check the original article.
West Virginia University researchers, led by Elizabeth Rowen and a team of faculty from the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design, will study the use of manure as an organic fertilizer, thanks to a $750,000 grant from the USDA. More specifically, they are digging into the most effective ways to reduce insects and pathogens that […]
Scientists have revealed that there are two different variants, or genotypes of Moraxella bovis (M. bovis), a bacterium known to cause pinkeye in cattle. This finding helps scientists understand how different types of M. bovis cause infection in livestock and can help develop preventative measures to protect U.S. cattle against this disease. Cattle pinkeye, or bovine infectious keratoconjunctivitis, is […]
Bulls are like professional athletes. Once properly developed they reach full servicing capacity and have a prime of several breeding seasons (between the ages of 2 to 5) and after the age of 6, they are on borrowed time. For each Tom Brady, winning Super Bowl Championships past the age of 40, there are hundreds of the […]
How much would you pay for a kilo of top quality lamb chops? Well Tom Bull of Kinross Station reckons his are worth 100 bucks a kilo, saying his Hampshire Downs lambs has marbling traits that put them on a par with the best cuts of beef. It’s a clever strategy to go super-premium when […]
Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who headed the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative under the Trump administration, has been selected to receive the U.S. Meat Export Federation’s Michael J. Mansfield Award. USMEF established the award in recognition of the U.S. Senate majority leader and ambassador to Japan whose five decades of government service advanced U.S. trade relations […]
The Welsh springer spaniel is smaller than its English counterpart, and makes a wonderful pet. Katy Birchall takes a look and meets some owners. Strong, active and compact, the Welsh springer has exceptional stamina and a friendly, merry temperament, making it an appealing pet as well as a working companion. It is a handsome dog, distinctive […]
Max Armstrong reports optimism in poultry and red meat consumption going into 2023 even as food prices rise. Max shares that poultry producers are meeting demand both domestically and for the export market. A CoBank report also shows that demand for cattle continue to remain strong due to strong beef demand even as retail prices […]
“There is a great symbiotic relationship – the canola is produced by local WA farmers and is crushed locally, the seaweed grows naturally off the WA coast, then is placed into the canola oil and finally the material is sent back out to beef producers,” he said. Click to check the original article.