Image: Shutterstock COVID in humans has given the cattle industry a possible key to fighting lumpy skin disease (LSD) and other diseases, according to one of Australia’s leading animal wellbeing specialists. New ways of manipulating genetic material offers cheaper vaccines made more quickly, said Dr Michael Laurence (right). However, like COVID, cattle might need booster […]
Vaccinating small holder cattle around feedlots in Indonesia. VACCINATION rather than mass culling of livestock should be Australia’s response to foot and mouth disease (FMD), according to livestock biosecurity experts. Addressing an MLA biosecurity breakfast in Brisbane on Tuesday, the three speakers endorsed vaccination over the ‘triple D’ response – “destroy, dispose and decontamination”. One […]
A series of low pressure systems and surface troughs dragged tropical air from the warm ocean waters, delivering thunderstorms and rainfall to large parts of the Northern Territory, eastern and south-eastern Australia. There is increasing humidity and convective activity / thunderstorms across the tropical north in the lead-up to the wet season. Weekly rainfall totals […]
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed $30 million to a sustainable grazing company. Photo: CEFC THE Clean Energy Finance Corporation has committed up to $30 million to a grazing fund, which aims to deliver carbon credits alongside enhanced biodiversity protection and sustainable red meat production. The Wyuna Regenerative Agriculture Investment Fund (the Fund) has […]
However, the sad reality in the days following that epic saturation remain a bitter pill to swallow for the life-long cattle producer, with 180 head of Angus cross cows and their sappy black calves all drowned. He was fortunate in that 30 heifers were found, after they swam with the flow around a great bend […]
The Corrigin yarding will feature 4200 ewe and wether lambs, while there will be 6600 ewes yarded at Wickepin. Click to check the original article.
AUSTRALIAN farm businesses lost more than $1.2 million to scammers in the first eight months of 2022, prompting a warning to heavy machinery buyers. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said farmers and small businesses in rural and regional areas are urged to be cautious, particularly when buying heavy machinery, following a spike in scams […]
The Detail It has taken a few years but the Australian Heavy Steer has now moved back into discount price spread territory compared to it’s equivalent US counterpart, the Choice Fed Steer. In mid-2020 tight domestic supplies and the beginnings of a herd rebuild saw the Australian Heavy Steer price move ahead of the US […]
CENTRAL Queensland cattle producer, beef industry innovator and agricultural advocate Josie Angus will be the guest speaker at a special Rural Press Club of Queensland lunch and networking event in Brisbane next Thursday, October 20, to celebrate International Rural Women’s Day. Over three decades Josie and her husband Blair have built their family cattle producing […]
The West Coast bioregion is home to more than 90pc of the State’s population and accounts for 50pc of all recreationally caught demersal fish. Click to check the original article.
The NSW Rural Crime Prevention team says rangeland goats were taken from a Goonumbla property. Click to check the original article.
Australia’s almond industry has witnessed the peak of its growth, as land near suitable water sources becomes increasingly scarce, according to one of the nation’s biggest growers. Select Harvests chief executive Paul Thompson told The Australian Ag Podcast, out today, he believed the almond industry’s rapid paced growth over the past decade was on its […]