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Butchers sharpen up for TriNations

AUSTRALIA'S top butchers are sharpening their skills ahead of the TriNations international butchery competition in September.

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Riverina irrigation projects to share in $100m

A SHORTLIST of project proposals for Murray and Murrumbidgee off-farm infrastructure upgrades has been announced today.

21 Aug 15 A SHORTLIST of project proposals for Murray and Murrumbidgee off-farm infrastructure upgrades has been announced...

News plan taking shape for The Land

PLANS for Fairfax Media’s flagship agricultural masthead The Land to base more of its journalists in regional NSW are moving ahead.

20 Aug 15 PLANS for Fairfax Media’s flagship agricultural masthead The Land to base more of its journalists in regional NSW...

Shenhua's Watermark gets green light UPDATED: SHENHUA Australia's $1 billion Watermark Project has been approved, sparking heated reaction from the project's critics.

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Butchers set to carve up the competition

AUSTRALIA's top butchers have sharpened their skills in Queensland this week ahead of the Tri-Nations International Butchery Competition.

21 Aug 15 AUSTRALIA's top butchers have sharpened their skills in Queensland this week ahead of the Tri-Nations International...

Satisfaction rates improve for bush councils

21 Aug 15 THE big dry may be partly responsible for an increase in satisfaction ratings for bush councils.

Super Butcher delivers Royal IT seems there is no stopping the RNA's Paddock to Palate competition.

Golden day for Arabella THE Holstein Friesian and Jersey breeds snared the top titles in the Royal Queensland Show's supreme champion dairy competition.

Agistment plan on track JULIA Creek cattleman Anthony Anderson hedged his bets and opted to agist 800 breeders in the hope of avoiding a costly buy-back.

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Planning advisory body welcomed

There's been widespread support for a new State Government advisory board which will look at the urban-agricultural interface.

20 Aug 15

1 There's been widespread support for a new State Government advisory board which will look at the urban-agricultural...

BoM’s 'business as usual' forecast

WITH the Bureau of Meteorology's current rainfall outlook sitting on the fence between a wetter or drier August to October, most of the state is managing their crops as 'business as usual'.

20 Aug 15 WITH the Bureau of Meteorology's current rainfall outlook sitting on the fence between a wetter or drier August to...

Noss dispersal females top at $2300 AN outstanding draft of dispersal Angus cows with autumn drop Angus calves sold to a $2300 high at Casterton cattle sale last Thursday.

Steers reach 371c/kg high at big Mt Gambier market SOLID prices and good quality store cattle were the order of the day at Mount Gambier, SA, combined agents monthly store sale on Friday.

Lamb supply lift The past week has seen circumstances shift in favour of processors, factoring in a combination of increased supplies of new-season lambs and plainer quality drafts of old lambs.

Online livestock sales increasing Times are changing and so are the ways producers market their stock.

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Wellard joint venture takes beef to China

AUSTRALIA is poised to be a major supplier of cattle to China.
That's the clear message Wellard Rural Exports is sending, after last week announcing its joint venture with private Chinese company, the Fulida Group.

4:00 AM AUSTRALIA is poised to be a major supplier of cattle to China. That's the clear message Wellard Rural Exports is...

Pastoralists welcome dog control funds

SOUTHERN Rangelands producers have welcome $1.13 million in federal funding allocated to the WA government to boost efforts to combat wild dogs.

21 Aug 15 SOUTHERN Rangelands producers have welcome $1.13 million in federal funding allocated to the WA government to boost...

Super start for CBH's latest business CBH's new fertiliser business is preparing to release product and pricing information for the 2016 season.

APW1 gets price premium nod from CBH CBH Group will continue with price-premium APW1 as a permanent wheat grade for this year's harvest and beyond.

State Government will back GM crops A GROUP of Williams growers lobbying the State Government to ensure WA remains open to genetically modified (GM) crops beyond the 2017 State election have had their fears allayed.

Marketers jump at shipping slot system GRAIN marketers have snapped up a further 2.5 million tonnes of export capacity with CBH this season through its new shipping slot allocation system.

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‘We just want to continue farming’

21 Aug 15 ALL Warramboo farmer Leon Veitch wants is to continue farming.

Bill seeks right to farm

UPHOLDING the right to farm and protecting farming activities from civil liability and changes in land use are the objectives of a draft bill released for consultation by Family First MLC Robert Brokenshire this week.

20 Aug 15

1 UPHOLDING the right to farm and protecting farming activities from civil liability and changes in land use are the...

Angus beef finds Middle East market AUSTRALIAN Angus beef is making inroads into markets across the world, as Thomas Foods International begins exports to Egypt.

Breed targets guide success RAPID Bay's John Croser could not be happier after selling a line of Shorthorn steers for $2124 a head at Mount Compass.

Dairy passion scoops title for Jake A PASSION for the industry has given Jake Connor, Nangkita, the title SA Young Dairyfarmer of the Year.

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Turbina trumped at Atherton

OVER the last three years through a $100,000 project funded under the Queensland Government’s Everyone’s Environment Grant program, Barron Catchment Care (BCC) has been targeting Turbina corymbosa an introduced species from Tropical America.

21 Aug 15 OVER the last three years through a $100,000 project funded under the Queensland Government’s Everyone’s Environment...

Bull riders go back to school

SOME of the most isolated students in the Northern Territory welcomed cowboys and a rodeo queen into their classroom during a special Katherine School of the Air assembly on August 14.

20 Aug 15 SOME of the most isolated students in the Northern Territory welcomed cowboys and a rodeo queen into their classroom...

Melon virus found in NQ QUEENSLAND’S biosecurity resources are under further pressure following the discovery of CGMMV on a farm near Charters Towers.

United response to Tully Panama case A FEDERAL rapid response team requested by Biosecurity Queensland is assisting with a suspected Panama disease case on a North Queensland farm.

BJD risks overblown, say producers FARMER representatives condemn the red tape wrapped around Bovine Johne’s disease (BJD) management.

Dry weather to hit 2015 sugar crop DRIER weather is likely to result in lower sugar production in Australia in the year ahead, with continued weakness in world sugar prices.

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