U.S. farmers’ and ranchers’ growing dependence on off-farm employment and income reveals the growing economic interconnection of rural communities and surrounding cities. According to a study by researchers at the University of Missouri, 82% of U.S. farm household income now comes from off-farm sources. The study was commissioned by CoBank and completed in partnership with […]
Early culling of open breeding heifers has several benefits to your cow-calf operations bottomline. Pregnancy can be diagnosed by palpation at 60 days and by ultrasound as early as 30 days, so now is the now is the time to take action and cull the open heifers. In addition to reducing grazing pressure on drought stressed […]
Most years, September would be occupied by lots of attention to wheat planting and budgets for winter grazing of stockers.However, the latest Drought Monitor shows that 99.97 percent of Oklahoma is abnormally dry or worse (D0-D4) with 48.81 percent in D3 and D4 (Extreme or Exceptional Drought). The three maps below from the Mesonet system show […]
Not only did the Price family beat the previous $115,000 record set by Palgrove recently, but they more than doubled the price. Click to check the original article.
Max Armstrong shares that the Fast Recovery Act in California is causing trouble in the state, but is more far reaching than many think. Max offers insight on the new bill from Riley Lagesen, an attorney with Greenberg Taurig. Lagesen, who told Nation’s Restaurant News that this concept is likely to catch on in other […]
The offering of 178 rams at Kurbullah sold to top at $12,300 on Monday. Click to check the original article.
Local buyers demonstrated their strength at the Trynow Merino Stud’s 36th Annual On Property sale held near Goolma. Click to check the original article.
Ellen Walker and Andrew de Gruchy, Warranine Park, Brookton, bought the top-priced Cheetara ram, paying $3300 for a White Suffolk. They are pictured with daughters Matilda, 1, and Zoe, 3, Elders Narembeen branch manager Colin Olgivie, Cheetara stud principal Nick Cheetham and Elders Narembeen livestock representative James King. Click to check the original article.
In a breakdown of the offering at 5 Star, 61 Senepol bulls topped $45,000 to average $19,902 Click to check the original article.
Pleasing result for Tara Park Merino stud Click to check the original article.
A QUEENSLAND Charolais bull sold for $265,000 this morning, setting a new breed record and more than doubling the previous benchmark set only a week earlier. The Price family’s annual sale at their Moongool Charolais Stud, Yuleba smashed the previous benchmark, selling two-year-old poll bull Moongool Revolution to David and Lynette Whitechurch, Fourway Stud, Inverell […]
He is one of a number of people sharply criticising the government’s handling of the changes, which will see commercial quotas slashed from 570 tonnes to 165 tonnes a year, plus two three-week closed seasons in waters off the state’s north starting in October, and two three-week closed seasons in southern waters starting in February […]