Eight cattle from three northern Australian export yards have been identified by local Indonesian testing authorities as to having Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). Click to check the original article.
Claire German of the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, chooses an incomparable Tudor portrait of one of the great men of his time: Holbein’s portrait of Thomas Cromwell. Claire German on ‘Thomas Cromwell’ by Hans Holbein the Younger ‘In a city as dense as New York, to have an unobstructed view of anything is a blessing […]
At 12.30pm, the slack rodeo kicked off with the junior steer ride and went through a range of contests including junior team roping, junior barrels, ladies breakaway, team roping, mini bull rides and junior breakaway finishing up with the ladies barrel race. Click to check the original article.
Judith Maizey has worked as a journalist and communications specialist for more than 30 years mostly throughout Queensland including Townsville, Longreach, Emerald, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Brisbane. Working for the North Queensland Register, she is always up for a chat and loves a good story. Contact 0417 546 616. E: [email protected] Judith Maizey has worked as […]
THERE are clear signs that the warehouse retail channel is having an extraordinary run at present across Eastern Australia, providing an ideal platform to move large volumes of extremely well-priced beef being held in cold storage. Warehouse retail refers to large-scale ‘no-frills’ sites – often only cement floors and stainless steel benches – selling low-margin, […]
RECKLESS conduct charges have been laid against a Queensland based cattle company and two of the company’s officers after a worker suffered a serious crush injury to their arm. According to NT WorkSafe two station hands were installing fence posts at Vermelha Station in the Katherine Region in November 2022. One worker was operating a […]
The Australian Institute of Petroleum’s national average diesel price. A COMBINATION of surging oil demand and a cut in supply from major producing countries has been blamed for diesel prices reaching their highest point this year. According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average diesel price finished last week at 215.3c at the […]
Northern NSW east of the Newell Highway has some wheat crops with average yields in sight, like this crop of Sunmax at Pallamallawa, if rain arrives soon. Photo: Oscar Pearse PRICES for wheat and barley have firmed in the northern market this week, despite consumer locations drying up for growers with grain to sell ahead […]
An additional eight Australian cattle have tested positive to lumpy skin disease after their arrival in Indonesia where the disease is widespread, the Federal Government confirmed yesterday. A file picture of an Indonesian calf with lumpy skin disease. The development, which comes despite extensive recent testing of 1000 cattle in Australia which found no trace […]
THE Federal Department of Agriculture has confirmed that criteria for rejecting northern live export cattle with skin markings or blemishes is being strictly enforced by government vets when inspecting consignments in quarantine prior to export. While DAFF said the “conservative approach” to assessing cattle was within the scope of existing rejection criteria details in ASEL […]
More specifically, the group, which has members from Sheep Producers Australia, WAFarmers, WoolProducers Australia, the Western Australian Shearing Industry Association (WASIA) and the WA Livestock & Rural Transport Association (LRTA) hopes to highlight some of the detrimental flow-on effects Federal Labor’s policy will have on WA’s regional and rural communities. Click to check the original […]
The winners and place-getters from this year’s Isa Street Parade were presented with certificates and prize money. Click to check the original article.