An estimated 200,000 kilometres of plastic mulch film, the equivalent of circling the globe five times a year with plastic, is laid in Australia each year, and with most regions having limited or zero recycling options, most is being stockpiled, buried or set on fire. Click to check the original article.

During the Grower Study Tour, WA graingrowers had the opportunity to meet and mingle with key industry leaders and players in Australia’s international grain trade. WA farmers were invited to dinner with the Australia Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Penny Williams, at her residence. The night was a great opportunity for growers to learn […]

Aladdin was sick and tired of his boring old lamp, so he traded it for a brand-new Smartwatch, see what unfolds at the Civic Centre. Click to check the original article.

A highlight among the yarding, according to agents, was the limited yet good quality line up of local soft crossbred steers, which sold to a dearer trend. Click to check the original article.

Weaner steers and heifers remained similar to the previous week, according to agents. Click to check the original article.

A live export ship carrying thousands of cattle has been turned back to Darwin after a fire. Click to check the original article.

See who is coming to Ipswich next March. Click to check the original article.

For canegrowers like Ms Fischer, the presence of fire ants has meant having to change how they operate their business. Click to check the original article.

One local government area saw one-in-10 jobs disappear and school enrolments halved under the last round of buybacks. Click to check the original article.

A plan to send bi-weekly air shipments of live sheep to China could help give sheep producers an additional market option as plans to phase out live sheep exports by sea progress, according to AustAgri Development Pty Ltd’s meat and agricultural consultant, “Fast” Eddie Zhi. Click to check the original article.

The effect of the Government’s decision to take away a large export market without “real” consultation and no plan for where the product will then be sold, and how this uncertainty combined with season and other factors has shown, that we as producers we are at the mercy of people who don’t care that we […]

But more than 15 months later, amid a terrible market for meat and wool, the level of government rebates for sheep and goat producers had industry wondering whether there could be a fair and equitable transition to the required eID traceability system. Click to check the original article.