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Kay’s Cuts: Australia needs beef export recovery

A monthly column written for Beef Central by US cattle and beef market commentator, Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers’ Weekly         FOR a country that exports up to 70 percent of all the beef it produces, Australia desperately needs a recovery in its beef exports. I’m sure all in the […]

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Queensland winter crop sowing guide reveals how eight new wheat, barley varieties stack up to the competition | Queensland Country Life

Using five years of results from the National Variety Trials program, growers can now compare the yield performance, disease resistance ratings and grain quality of these commercially available grain varieties, along with chickpea varieties, and make selections based on what could work the best for their individual circumstances. Click to check the original article.

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Agribusiness: Stockco parent company Heartland buys Challenger Bank

Heartland Group, the parent company behind Australian livestock finance provider StockCo, has signed a conditional share purchase agreement for the acquisition of Challenger Bank. The key benefit in the deal is that it shifts Stockco’s access to funds from retail to wholesale level, providing opportunity to expand lending capacity in Australia. The $36 million deal […]

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Queensland Government doubles Housing Investment Fund by $130 million

The Queensland Government will double the size of its Housing Investment Fund by injecting $130 million each year into the state’s housing sector. The Queensland Housing Summit hosted in Brisbane on Thursday welcomed government, private and public sector stakeholders to discuss the housing crisis facing the state. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the government would be […]

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Bathurst: A New Golden Age

In the past, Bathurst and its surrounding villages may have been eclipsed by the neighbouring towns of Orange and Mudgee. However, as a recent visit shows, now is the historic city’s time to shine once more. Xanthe Morgan has 40 paying guests coming for dinner but she appears totally undaunted by the task ahead of […]

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