On the sorghum harvest trail from Victoria to Toobeah
Contract harvesters are racing time with more wet weather forecast for key cropping areas in Queensland later this week. Click to check the original article.
Brahman grazier turns eye towards stud world
‘You’ve got to do that to get your name out there’: Pasha grazier shares plans for family enterprise expansion Click to check the original article.
Will the market maintain lamb’s Easter stimulus? | The Land
“Looking ahead to the rest of 2024, we expect to see some stability in [lamb] supply and pricing, however, with a large Australian flock, and large market swings in supply and price, sometimes in response to localised weather events, this may be determined by larger market influences”. Click to check the original article.
AWI mulls over WoolPoll levy cuts
AWI is deliberating which programs will go and which will stay under various levy options. Click to check the original article.
Industry adapts in new norm for meat shopping
Industry is adapting as meat shopping trends have changed over the years. Click to check the original article.
Dragging the chain on roads
Farmers are calling on government to finally fix damaged roads. Click to check the original article.
Samuel Etay joins Simplot Animal Sciences
Simplot Animal Sciences has announced Samuel Etay, Ph.D., has joined its in vitro fertilization (IVF) team as a research scientist. In this role, Etay will work to improve efficiency of Simplot’s IVF system, enhance the quality of in vitro-produced beef embryos and ultimately improve pregnancy outcomes. “Sammy’s expertise and understanding of bovine reproduction will be […]
Prospective Plantings, feed prices and implications for feeder cattle markets
Input prices have been a major topic of discussion over the last couple of years. As I write this, we are enjoying some extremely high cattle prices. But those high prices have been at least somewhat offset by increases in production costs. This has been true of feed, fertilizer, fuel, machinery, labor and many other […]
USDA updates entity-scale greenhouse gas methods report
The USDA has published the second edition of Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity Scale Inventory. The report provides farmers, ranchers and forest landowners with the methods and tools needed to assess the greenhouse gas footprint of their operations. The 2024 report improves upon the methods outlined in the original […]
U.S., Ireland partner to solve critical cattle, pig health issues
By Lori Tyler Gula, USDA NIFA In 2006, the United States, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland launched a research and development partnership to accelerate economic development and cooperation across borders by encouraging trilateral research collaboration. In 2015, the USDA, Republic of Ireland Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Northern Ireland Department of […]
Population, technology and capital set to drive ag investment, says new report
GLOBAL population trends, advances in technology and increasing capital inflows are tipped to drive a significant investment boon in the $3.6 trillion Australian agriculture sector. In its new report, Agriculture, your next investment move, JLL’s national agribusiness team has identified nine key demand drivers it predicts will anchor a new wave of investment in Australian […]
Why do we get so many April showers?
It’s the time of year when a torrential downpour can come and go in minutes — or drench one side of the street while leaving the other side dry. It’s all to the good for growing, says Lia Leendertz as she takes a look at the weather of April. The weather lore of spring, just as […]