Mike Pearson tells us how the Perspective Planting report is due out this afternoon. The mail survey helps the USDA collect data for the report. It asks producers what grain they are going to plant? How many acres of each grain? and How much grain or oilseed they have stored on their farm. The data […]
In the six tooth and more class, the Frost family’s Thalabah stud, Laggan, took first place with a 16.8 micron-count ram valued at $149.19. It had a GFW of 14, EM of 46 – the second highest of the day and a bodyweight of 127.5, the highest weight of the day. Its subjective score was […]
Annunciata Elwes traces the curious history of the hot cross bun in Britain. ‘This is the season at which all good Christians devour hot cross buns for breakfast, under the comfortable impression that a religious duty is being performed.’ So stated the magazine Figaro in London in 1836. Despite the enduring popularity of the hot […]
Armidale’s Grace Collins was named the 2024 Rural Achiever. Click to check the original article.
The World Championship campdraft attracts 15 leading Australian campdraft competitors and is held over six rounds of competition with points allocated per round to determine the overall winner. Click to check the original article.
THE Dolly’s Dream foundation will be the beneficiary of a lively fundraising luncheon being held in Rockhampton during Beef 2024 in May. Accountancy firm Moore Australia’s Women in Ag group is hosting the event, named Dining for a Dream, being held on Tuesday 7 May. Guests will enjoy an entertaining afternoon including a delicious five-course […]
OVER the past two weeks much of the rainfall activity recorded nationally has been recorded in northern and central Australia. Much of this rainfall is associated with Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan and resulted in widespread thunderstorms and rainfall in the Northern Territory, Nort West Queensland and in parts of the Kimberley region. The result of […]
On the eve of the annual Inter-Collegiate Meat Judging northern conference in Rockhampton next week, Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan chats with ICMJ chairman Peter McGilchrist, on how the education body came into being, what purpose it currently serves for the beef and sheepmeat industry, and who has been part of the program […]
The cause of the deaths of over 100 Australian cattle on a livestock shipment to Indonesia last weekend, and a further 50 cattle from the same cohort which simultaneously died at an export quarantine facility near Darwin, is still yet to be determined, officials say. Territory and Federal Government veterinarians have been conducting investigations and […]
The ewes sold to buyers in Central West NSW and Victoria Click to check the original article.
Inspecting the line-up of cattle on offer in the sale were Nutrien Livestock, Midlands representative Leno Vigolo (left), John Lawrance, Gidgegannup and Tristan Ward, Kaloom Pastoral, Gidgegannup. Kaloom Pastoral was both a vendor and buyer in the sale selling Speckle Park and Murray Grey heifers for up $768 and buying Angus heifers up to $1104. […]
Mount Charlton property Kungurri Springs sold soon after auction. Click to check the original article.