Consumer preferences for natural food production and consumption of animal-based products are growing. Plant-based feed additives have particularly high growth potential as a component of healthy animal feed. To support feed customers in this growing space, Cargill has signed a binding agreement to acquire Delacon, the globally leading expert in plant-based phytogenic additives. “After a […]
There has been much discussion about beef cow slaughter this year. Dry weather, rising input costs, and strong cull cow prices are resulting in large numbers of beef cows leaving cow-calf operations and moving into the beef system. It has been somewhat surprising that cull cow prices have remained as high as they have given […]
Max Armstrong notes that farmers are used to working with regulatory agencies including EPA, USDA, OSHA, but now the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is getting attention in agriculture. The SEC proposal would require companies to report on their Scope 3 emissions. Farm groups say the reporting requirement would impact ag because of the vast […]
Sometimes, the simplest of luxuries are the most exquisitely enjoyable, says Tom Parker Bowles, as he dives into peas fresh from the pod. Luxury comes in myriad forms. There’s the lavishly obvious — caviar, lots of it, piled high on Melba toast. And the illicit — ortolans, those tiny, tragic songbirds, fattened in the dark, […]
STEM Jumpstart Program mentor Lissette Salazar (left), Value Creators directors Ann Maree OCallaghan, Food, Fibre and Industries Training Council chief executive officer Kay Gerard, and Maree Gooch, Dumbleyung farmer Casey Angwin and Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) future farming systems development officer Nancye Gannaway. Click to check the original article.
“I am open to hearing from all groups, including industry, farm groups, employers and unions, about solutions that will help to address our workforce challenges, and also look forward to coming up with more ideas at the government’s Jobs and Skills Summit later this year.” Click to check the original article.
Most of the cattle presented in forward condition. Click to check the original article.
Slideshow: ZX Ranch gathers friends and family each spring to brand and work the season’s new calves. Click to check the original article.
Rockhampton Regional Council and Beef Australia to become Strategic Partners. Click to check the original article.
Worksafe enquiry into WA farm deaths over past five years after man hit in head towing bogged vehicle. Click to check the original article.
Store cattle sold to an easing market and smaller buying panel operating. Click to check the original article.
Kelly is the National Digital Specialist for ACM Agriculture, covering Queensland Country Life, The Land, Farmonline, Stock Journal, Stock & Land, Farm Weekly and the North Queensland Register. Kelly is the National Digital Specialist for ACM Agriculture, covering Queensland Country Life, The Land, Farmonline, Stock Journal, Stock & Land, Farm Weekly and the North Queensland […]