Positive start to Nebo sale calendar
Higher prices and good quality were evident at the Nebo cattle market’s 2024 launch Click to check the original article.
Dave Worsfold hangs up his chaps and retires from rodeo
Dave Worsfold retires from professional rodeo. Click to check the original article.
Online listings continue to surge, reaching 19,457 head
Part of a line of 49 Wagyu x Angus F1 weaned steers 10-11 months averaging 366kg from Bonegilla VIC that returned $1550 or 423c/kg this morning. A further 33 heifer sisters averaging 321kg made 365c/kg. ONLINE cattle listings continued their strong start to the year this week, lifting another 14 percent to 19,457 head. […]
Meet the 2024 Rural Women's awards finalists
Four Queensland women making positive contributions to rural and regional communities are in the running for the 2024 AgriFutures Rural Womens Award. Click to check the original article.
Kempsey unjoined heifers spark strong bids during annual breeder sale
Strong bids for breeder cattle at Kempsey. Click to check the original article.
Miniature heroes: The tiny portraits that delight, amuse, and have changed the course of English history
Over the centuries, miniatures sealed marriages, captured stolen glances and — in one unforgettable instance — tipped the balance power in Tudor England. Huon Mallalieu delves into the history of these often small and always perfectly formed portraits. Miniature painting is ‘a thing apart from all other painting and drawing’ in showing ‘those lovely graces, witty smilings, […]
Addressing workforce shortages in meat processing industry | Queensland Country Life
“To them it’s a butcher, it’s a farmer, it’s paddock to plate, and while that’s not necessarily wrong, there was very little of them that could actually name that abattoir processing part in the middle that is the red meat processing sector,” she said. Click to check the original article.
How prices fared on day two of the Nutrien Classic sale
Colts, geldings and fillies were offered. Click to check the original article.
It’s all about the cattle square
I wrapped up my first marketing school of the year this week. I learn something from every school I put on. Some people ask challenging questions. Sometimes I must ask a bunch of questions to understand the question. This gives me a different perspective. Leapfrog trades In the past I have shown people that leapfrog trades […]
18,800 Victorian weaners will test young cattle market
FOUR important upcoming late summer weaner sales in Victoria will provide a litmus test for young cattle values and demand heading into autumn. Offering around 18,800 steers and heifers from weaner weights through to light and heavy feeders, the upcoming sales will be among the largest young cattle trading periods ever seen in the region. […]
Maryfield and Limbunya listing tests frontiers for carbon market
THE new frontier of Australia’s carbon market is likely to be tested following the decision to market two extensive Northern Territory grazing properties with significant approved carbon projects. After being sold in September 2022 in a separate land and cattle deal worth a combined $175 million (on a walk-in walk-out basis involving around 50,000 head […]
Central Qld producers win Lachlan Hughes “tree of life” award + PICTURES
Phillip Hughes with Isaac Perkins, ‘tree of life’ award winner Neil Reinke and Dusty Elsom. CENTRAL Queensland producers Neil and Jan-Adele Reinke have taken out this year’s “tree of life” award for their work in fixing up systemic erosion problem on their property between Bundaberg and Miriam Vale. The pair were in Toowoomba this week […]