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An 'exceptionally attractive' farm in Aberdeenshire that is the 'original home' of the Aberdeen Angus cattle breed has come up for sale

The arrival of Tillyfour to the market offers the chance for buyers to acquire a prime rural ‘residential and livestock’ farm in a beautiful corner of Scotland. Penny Churchill takes a look. Evelyn Channing, Savills’s first lady of Scottish country property, is overseeing the sale, due to the retirement of the present incumbent, of the […]

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Walmart investing in Sustainable Beef LLC

Walmart announced Aug. 31 that it has signed an agreement to acquire a minority stake in Sustainable Beef LLC, a rancher-owned company based in North Platte, Nebraska. Walmart’s equity investment is part of a broader strategic partnership to source top-quality angus beef from Sustainable Beef LLC’s new beef processing facility. This partnership helps supplement the […]

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FDA to host listening session on regulation of animal food claims

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine has announced that registration is now open for a virtual public listening session on the agency’s regulation of animal foods with certain types of claims such as environmental benefits (e.g., reduced greenhouse emissions), production claims (e.g., growth promotion, feed efficiency), and claims about effects on the animal microbiome. […]

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Farm Progress America, August 31, 2022

Max Armstrong shares some thoughts from Jennifer Carrico, editor, Wallaces Farmer, looking at all the technology available at the Farm Progress Show. Yet she shared that farmers are also fighting challenges on the farm, but they step up and make it happen. Jennifer quotes the Lee Brice song “The Farmer.” But Max also adds that […]

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Belka Valley ram sale sells to $4700 top on Monday | Farm Weekly

Elders stud stock specialist and Belka Valley classer Nathan King (left), Elders Narembeen territory sales manager James King, top-priced buyer Darren Major, Muntadgin, Belka Valley stud co-principal Robyn Jones and Elders stud stock trainee Lauren Rayner, with the $4700 top-priced sire at the Belka Valley on-property ram sale on Monday. Click to check the original […]

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Organically-certified Mt Doreen near Alice Springs makes $70m

AUSTRALIA’s biggest landholders Viv Oldfield and Donny Costello have paid more than $70 million for one of the largest Certified Organic cattle stations in Central Australia. The 733,700ha Mt Doreen Station, established in 1932 by William and Doreen Braitling, is located on the Tanami Road (linking the Kimberley region to Central Australia), around 380km north-west […]

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