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Poll Dorset, Texel and Suffolk rams in Kojonup sale | Farm Weekly

With the $2400 top-priced JimJan Texel sire were buyer Ellen Walker (left), Warranine Park, Brookton, holding daughter Matilda de Gruchy 2, partner Andrew de Gruchy, and their daughters Piper, 7, and Zoe, 4, and JimJan Texel studs Kristy Glover and daughters Ella Robinson, 10, and Josie Robinson, 8, holding the ram and Elders auctioneer Graeme […]

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The Burdekin’s rising groundwater and salt inundation could turn fertile farmland into wasteland | Queensland Country Life

“This includes Sunwater delivering the Lower Burdekin Rising Groundwater Mitigation Project, to investigate and pilot off-farm actions to mitigate rising groundwater in the region. The four-year, $25 million project will utilise a range of preventative measures and intervention techniques to counter the threat of rising groundwater levels and high water salinity,” he said. Click to […]

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The Burdekin’s rising groundwater and salt inundation could turn fertile farmland into wasteland | North Queensland Register

“This includes Sunwater delivering the Lower Burdekin Rising Groundwater Mitigation Project, to investigate and pilot off-farm actions to mitigate rising groundwater in the region. The four-year, $25 million project will utilise a range of preventative measures and intervention techniques to counter the threat of rising groundwater levels and high water salinity,” he said. Click to […]

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Ag’s change of face, powerline safety fears, a spring in lamb sales and drenching sheep with worms; Getting the Upper Land episode 14 | The Land

Deliberately drenching sheep with worms has brought some promising results for a Victorian producer. Matt Kelly, Low Footprint Lamb, Croxton East, introduced chemical-naive worms to his maternal shedding composites Nudie breeding operation. Over the span of three years he has been able to change chemical resistance from an original worm population to chemical naive worms, […]

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