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Maremmas deal with fox losses at Cunderdin

4:00 AM | WITH wild dog and fox attacks on the rise, wool producers are taking matters into their own hands and fighting fire with fire.

Wool - General

Time to reap the beef market benefits

4:00 AM | THE WA beef industry had a gross value of production of over $600 million in 2010-11 according to the latest edition of the WA Beef Commentary.

Livestock - Cattle

Bulls sell to $7800 at Allegria Park sale

4:00 AM | NOT one bull even looked like being passed in at the Allegria Park annual on-property bull sale in Esperance last Wednesday.

Livestock - Cattle

US herd decline could boost Aussie beef exporters

4:00 AM | A BIGGER than expected drop in the US herd may offer a small reprieve for Australian beef exporters facing falls in Japan and Korea, analysis suggests.

Livestock - Cattle

Pip Courtney takes Landline's centre stage

4:00 AM | IT'S been almost 26 years since a young ABC cadet from Tasmania began her career in journalism and current affairs.

Agribusiness and General - General

Aust dairy losing to NZ in China

3:00 AM | THE Australian dairy industry is losing out to New Zealand in the massive, growing Chinese market, according to the managing director of Australia’s largest dairy company Murray Goulburn Co-operative, Gary Helou.

Dairy - General

Prices go on hold

3:00 AM | A PERIOD of consolidation following the record trading highs in early 2011 seems apparent for the lamb industry in 2012.

Livestock - Sheep

Sewing his way to success

3:00 AM | GUNNEDAH isn’t the only town able to boast a fashion icon in model Miranda Kerr, with the spotlight recently turned on Moree’s up-and-coming fashion designer Dylan Cooper.

Agribusiness and General - General

‘We need farmers’

3:00 AM | GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians.

Agribusiness and General - General

'Peak everything': Fischer

3:00 AM | FEW public figures in secular Australia can wangle the Pope and agriculture into the same speech, but Tim Fischer is a notable exception.

Agribusiness and General - Political

DAFF directionless, say Cobb and Nash

3:00 AM | THE federal opposition started the new parliamentary year this week by accusing the Labor government of abandoning agriculture.

Agribusiness and General - Political

Connection dates to 1800s

3:00 AM | Cheviot Glen has been in Glenys Anderson's family since the 1940s, when her father and uncle purchased the property.

Property - General

To Russia - with no love!

2:30 AM | THIS article may seem to be a major whinge, but it is really just a reflection of how export and processor buyers are feeling about the apparently poor efforts producers are putting into filling-out their National Vendor Declarations. | Bull run forecast for sales in SA | Egremont keeps it simple

Livestock - News

Strong bidding to $8000 at Ardcairnie

11 Feb 12 | A QUALITY line-up of Angus bulls with EBVs to match and strong competition from return buyers, saw prices hit a high of $8000 at last week's Ardcairnie on-property bull sale at Kojonup.

Livestock - Cattle

NFF welcomes broadband committment

11 Feb 12 | THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed the announcement by the Prime Minister that two satellites will be built to deliver high speed broadband to regional and remote Australia.

Agribusiness and General - General

Tea tree the good oil

11 Feb 12 | NEW research indicating oil from the Australian native tea tree is effective in treating flystrike and lice infestations in sheep could provide wool producers with a natural insecticide to which lice are unlikely to be able to develop any immunity.

Wool - General

Diversity at Glen Innes

11 Feb 12 | MINIMAL tillage and a focus on enhancing soil condition while consecutively reducing inputs and increasing yields, has been part of a diversity improvement program critical to the long-term sustainability of the Burridge family’s Northern Tablelands mixed enterprise.

Grains and Cropping - General

Dairy industry up in arms

11 Feb 12 | THE Federal government’s response to last year’s Senate inquiry into the supermarket milk pricing war has been slammed by the Australian dairy industry and Federal politicians wary of Coles’ and Woolworths’ market dominance. | Dairy suffers while govt ... | Strong outlook for global ...

Dairy - General

Sheep on track to meet export deadline

11 Feb 12 | IMPLEMENTATION of the new supply chain regulations for Australian live animal exports to the Middle East are on track to meet a critical upcoming deadline, according to members of a high level delegation that toured the region last week.

Livestock - Sheep

'Easy-care' a standout

11 Feb 12 | FOR 50 years, Ian Patzel has bred and run Poll Herefords on his Strathdownie property in the Western District and believes the breed will continue to thrive on his farm in the next 50 years, with his son Stephen at the operation's helm.

Livestock - Cattle