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Mort & Co secures 50pc share in Warwick’s Yarranbrook feedlot

Cattle on feed in the Yarranbrook feedlot   Toowoomba-based vertically integrated grainfed beef producer Mort & Co has taken a 50 percent share in the 18,000 head Yarranbrook feedlot at Inglewood on the NSW/Queensland border. The deal ends more than 35 years of operations and ownership of Yarranbrook by members of the Hart family, some […]

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My favourite painting: Jacquiline Creswell

The visual-arts advisor and curator at Chichester Cathedral chooses a huge painting that is ‘an assault on the senses’. Jacquiline Creswell on Für Paul Celan, Aschenblume by Anselm Kiefer ‘Standing before Anselm Kiefer’s monumental painting is an intense and almost overwhelming experience. The huge room suddenly feels small and claustrophobic. A perplexing, anxious curiosity draws me […]

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Australian firm appointed to Murdoch’s US$200m ranch

THE firm involved a landmark soil carbon deal with Microsoft has been appointed asset manager for a US$200 million Montana ranch, which was purchased by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch earlier this year. Armidale-based asset management company Impact Ag last year brokered the $500,000 soil carbon deal from projects on properties owned by the Wilmot Cattle […]

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Applications open for Darwin shipboard stockperson training course

The Young Livestock Exporters Network is calling for applications for positions on the next LiveCorp Shipboard Stockperson Training Course, which will be the first to be held in Darwin. The positions are supported by Meat and Livestock Australia and the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought […]

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Fake tractor sales top ag losses in online scams

IN 2021, Australian farmers and agriculture businesses lost over $1.5 million to scammers targeting the agriculture industry, an ACCC report released this morning reveals. The most reported category of loss in agriculture was classified scams, with over $686,000 in reported losses, closely followed by online shopping scams with over $676,000 reported lost. The most common […]

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Victoria River Research Station Beefup Forum – 26-27 July

A BEEFUP Forum has been announced for the Northern Territory over two days on 26 – 27 July at the Victoria River Research Station. Hosted by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), Territory beef producers and other key industry stakeholders will have the opportunity to hear about the latest in local and world-leading research and technologies […]

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FMD spreads to Bali – Beef Central

The risk of foot and mouth disease (FMD) reaching Australian shores has increased with confirmation the outbreak in Indonesia has reached the tourist hotspot of Bali. A cattle market in Bali. Picture: Dr Ross Ainsworth. A letter from Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture’s confirmed the entry of FMD to Bali on Friday, with testing confirming 63 […]

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