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Hughenden heifers find ready market at Blackall

A decision by Blackall’s Combined Agents to run one more cattle sale for the year gave Hughenden’s Greg and Terressa Ford, Rivergum Grazing, the perfect opportunity to send 680 young cattle down for last Thursday’s sale. Click to check the original article.

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Boom, bust and property lust: Penny Churchill on 30 years of Britain’s best houses

Country Life’s long-standing property correspondent Penny Churchill looks back on three decades of writing about Britain’s finest houses. Nobody in Britain has seen more of the nation’s great country houses than Penny Churchill. This week’s podcast features Country Life’s long-standing property correspondent Penny Churchill, who looks back on three decades of writing about Britain’s finest […]

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FDA releases annual antimicrobial use report

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine has published the 2022 Summary Report on Antimicrobials Sold or Distributed for Use in Food-Producing Animals. This year’s data show that domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals increased by four percent between 2021 and 2022. Compared […]

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Protect your share when cattle prices are high

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I taught a marketing school.  As I was driving to the conference center I got caught at a red light at 6th and Industrial Row.  I looked over at the people in the left turn lane that were headed to their factory jobs, and they had this look on […]

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The 102-year-old, the armed robbers and the ‘blazing’ Picasso which helped Sotheby’s sell $1 billion of art in a month

November’s major auctions witnessed some truly extraordinary sales — not least thanks to the sale of the collection of Emily Fisher Landau. Huon Mallalieu takes a look. Cy Twombly (1928–2011) is an artist who does not so much divide as violently cleave opinions. For many years, I have tried to understand the loops, swirls and splashes for […]

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