Supporters of ag labor reform were again calling on the Senate to take up the House’s Farm Workforce Modernization Act in a press conference on Capitol Hill on Sept. 15. Industry members joined one of the lead sponsors, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., to urge passage due to the growing food crisis and increasing food prices. […]
I want to give a shout out to all the people that work behind the scenes to make Husker Harvest Days happen and the people of Grand Island, Nebraska. My Family and I spent the week out there and were well taken care of. Last year when I spoke there, I walked around and looked […]
The National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education and five partner institutions have received a $1.5 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Veterinary Medicine to support a project designed to improve antibiotic stewardship by prioritizing the most significant diseases in food animal production and identifying alternative treatment strategies. […]
From Marilyn Monroe and Yuri Gagarin to Margaret Thatcher and Donald Trump, The Queen was at the heart of history and rubbed shoulders with the people who made it throughout her reign. In the 70 years after Queen Elizabeth II took the throne, the world changed in ways that would have seemed unimaginable in 1952. […]
International buyer Mr Homero from Rancho Miguel Poll Dorset stud, Brazil once again was operating throughout the draft, purchasing three rams including Gooramma 259-2021, a son of Hillcroft Farms 231095, and Gooramma 41-2021, a son of Valma 144-19, for $10,000 apiece, to average $8667 across the trio. Click to check the original article.
Another regular buyer was Kevin Graham, Kevin Graham Consulting Pty Ltd, Brisbane who secured the $52,000 top-priced Charolais bull, Ascot Septre S109E (AI) (P), a 17-month-old homozygous polled son of Ascot King Tide N76E (P) for Loid and Zabby Appleton, along with his brother Fred, and his wife Anna, and their parents, Dale and Kris […]
With the $18,000 top-priced ram at the Lewisdale Poll Merino studs 59th annual on-property ram sale at Wickepin last weekend were Lewisdale stud representative of 55 years John Sherlock (left), AWN Livestock auctioneer Don Morgan, Andrew Kitto, Dyson Jones, Wickepin/Newdegate, Lewisdale stud principal Ray Lewis and his grandsons Jordan and Kai Taylor. The ram was […]
The Nobbs families held their annual bull sale at Moura on Friday, with a line-up of Brangus and Ultra Black bulls attracting strong interest on the day. Click to check the original article.
The Glen stud principal was happy with the results of their Angus and Angus/Grey sale results on Friday. Click to check the original article.
Futurity Shorthorns, Baradine purchased the equal top-priced Weebollabolla Route R81 for $22,000. Ranking in the top five per cent of the breed for gestation length, birthweight, and rib and rump fats, the two-year-old was bought based on its “calving ease and marbling data”, according to Jason Catts of Futurity. Click to check the original article.
A large portion of bulls went to buyers from the Roma area, as well as Injune, Taroom, Wandoan, Wallumbilla, Yuleba, Mungallala, Morven, Charleville, Tambo, Augathella, Arcadia Valley, Rolleston, Bauhinia, Orion, Toogoolawah, Mundubbera, Goondiwindi, Thallon, Surat, and Vaucluse, NSW. Click to check the original article.
Consistent buyer of top Kamballie rams for their nucleus breeding program, including the $11,500 top price at last year’s sale for a Poll Boonoke Bobcat 180137 son (purchased by the Kamballie and Manunda studs for $70,000 in 2019), Callum Nicholls, BW & CM Nicholls, Corrigin, stocked up with three new polled Bobcat sons for a […]