Tom and Noah Strachan TRAGEDY has engulfed the Queensland cattle industry following the deaths of prominent agribusiness identity Thomas Strachan, 49, his son Noah, 20, and experienced senior pilot Gary Liehm in a light plane crash near Ipswich on Monday. Mr Strachan was the founder of Australia’s largest privately owned labour hire company AWX. […]
The plane was due to land at Archerfield at 2pm on Monday but it failed to arrive. Click to check the original article.
Sally Gall Senior journalist – Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I’ve raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and helped develop a region – its history, tourism, education and communications. Based at Blackall, CW Qld, where I’ve raised a family, run Merino sheep and beef cattle, and […]
It’s a vision of the future that has captured the imagination of farmers, food companies and agricultural scientists for the past decade. As arable land becomes scarcer, the climate-change risk of destroying forests to make more cropping country becomes ever-more apparent, and food insecurity intensifies as a global threat to world peace, many minds have […]
With Labor Day just around the corner, it is important to assess the current forage situation and evaluate the remaining potential of the growing season. The August 23 Drought Monitor shows that 98.64 percent of Oklahoma is in some stage of drought (D0-D4) with 48.60 percent in D3 (extreme) and D4 (exceptional) drought. The USDA-NASS Crop […]
China is one of the top importers of agricultural products in the world, but it has non-tariff measures that prevent its imports from growing even larger. Economic theory suggests that a country would import products when foreign prices are lower than domestic prices, decreasing domestic prices and narrowing the “wedge” between domestic and international prices. […]
Happy day for Truro Herefords Click to check the original article.
A federal jury has convicted a woman and man of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering relating to a scheme that fraudulently raised money from investors across the country. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Reva Joyce Stachniw, 70, of Galesburg, Illinois, and Ron Throgmartin, 58, of Buford, Georgia, ran […]
Max Armstrong reports on a new problem hitting California – grasshoppers. On top of drought and other challenges, now grasshoppers are chewing their way through key crops. Max shares the population is up due to the dry spring. Fungus levels that keep grasshoppers in check are less prevalent this year, which has boosted their numbers. […]
Other volume buyers active in Monday’s sale included Palm Tree Grazing, Taroom, which bought two bulls at an average of $18,000, the Loughnan family, Avenel, Roma, which purchased four bulls at an average of $9750 and Arrabury Pastoral Company, Mount Leonard Station, Windorah, which purchased three bulls at an average of $10,333. Click to check […]
Research focused on maiden ewe reproduction, the development and calibration of technology to measure beef carcase composition, bull breakdowns on WA farms, the impact of shade availability and heat stress on the joining behaviour of Merino sheep, water intake during joining under heat stress, identifying a grazing system that provides green feed all year round, […]
Davidson Cameron & Co, account Tim Cone, Warragundi, sold a pen of Charolais cross and Hereford cross heifers for $1840. Ian Morgan Livestock, account McDonald, from Winton, west of Tamworth, sold the top-priced pen of ptic cows for $2725. McCulloch Agencies, account Bill Mutton, Tamworth, sold a pen of Angus females, with second calf at […]