Dave and Tracey Hegarty, Bellenbar, Bourke, used the Land Services Program to increase the productivity on their property, increasing water retention through smart contouring and new water tanks, pasture protection through exclusion fencing and lots of free and subsidised advice and programs through the Western Local Land Services two-year program. New applications are open now. […]
Overweight and poorly loaded caravans and tow vehicles are contributing to nearly half the number of traffic crashes in Queensland where the vehicle towing the caravan is at fault, police say. Click to check the original article.
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Big woolsheds, big mobs of sheep and big memories for shearer Les McIlveen who has a long family tradition in the game. Click to check the original article.
Ann Alcock and Julie Ramsey publish Birds of Western Queensland. Click to check the original article.
SILENT SPREADER: A man sprays disinfectant over dead sheep in the United Kingdom in 2001, where a breakout led to the army destroying thousands of sheep. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell The potentially industry debilitating foot and mouth disease could be amplified by the silent spreaders of sheep and goats as they are likely to go […]
The Normanton Childcare Centre will be temporarily closed next month and may be forced to close its doors for good if it cannot solve a recruitment issue. Click to check the original article.
A June view of Sue Freebairn and legumes (in this case serradella) growing within a Premier digit tropical grass pasture on Kingswood, Purlewaugh. In mid-March a farmer contacted me that his stock were not doing well on a tropical grass pasture. Plenty of feed but poor quality. A laboratory analysis indicated low protein (4 per […]
CROSSBREEDING SUCCESS: Commercial breeders are getting results with Limousin sires with improved growth and carcase traits in the calves. This is branded content for Australian Limousin Breeders’ Society. LIMOUSIN bloodlines are boosting profit in a range of commercial operations across the country, thanks to hybrid vigour and improved carcase quality, with producers reporting high demand […]
Mark Davie, Australian Beef Sustainability Framework chair. If a cow grazes in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This goes to the core of the Australian beef industry’s challenge with deforestation; we can productively produce beef in a forest. Deforestation is a significant focus of global […]
SILENT SPREADER: A man sprays disinfectant over dead sheep in the United Kingdom in 2001, where a breakout led to the army destroying thousands of sheep. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell The potentially industry debilitating foot and mouth disease could be amplified by the silent spreaders of sheep and goats as they are likely to go […]
SILENT SPREADER: A man sprays disinfectant over dead sheep in the United Kingdom in 2001, where a breakout led to the army destroying thousands of sheep. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell The potentially industry debilitating foot and mouth disease could be amplified by the silent spreaders of sheep and goats as they are likely to go […]