28 Jan 00 | GROWN steers sold to strong competition while buyers were very selective in the female section at the annual Yea grown steer and female sale last Friday.
The grown steer section of the yarding was topped at $670 for a pen of six Angus steers, 22 mont
28 Jan 00 | THERE was fierce buying competition from all sectors of the cattle industry at the Wodonga special grown steer and weaner cattle sale last Thursday where a massive 4600 store cattle were sold.
Selling agents Corcoran and Parker, EldersVP and Wesfarme
28 Jan 00 | IT does not matter who you talk to about the store cattle market, everyone has an opinion. To say those opinions are many and varied would be an understatement.
But, I believe the consensus is that in the past week or so, the store cattle market may
28 Jan 00 |
WILLAURA mixed farmer Bill Day attributes much of the success of his farm to his late father¹s war against rabbits.
Bill, and his wife Sandra, won the Hanslow Cup for Landcare work in the Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management region.
But it is the
28 Jan 00 |
Prime sheep and lamb prices moved sideways and down as increased supplies of plainer quality-types came forward this week.
Numbers overall were reduced by 10 per cent, but several processing days lost through the Butchers Picnic last Wednesday and
28 Jan 00 | With the international end of year holiday season almost completed, it¹s become apparent that prices for export cattle have begun to labour as overseas trading gets under way again.
Prices for bullocks are likely to be most affected from excessive p
28 Jan 00 |
Export sales of Australian beef reached a new record of 868,000 tonnes last year, up one per cent on 1998 levels. Higher sales were driven by stronger demand from North America and Korea.
Australian beef exports to Japan declined 2pc in 1999 to 313
28 Jan 00 |
Despite a last-minute attempt by some disaffected producers to propose an alternative to deregulation, NSW dairyfarmers appear to have accepted the inevitability of deregulation.
Dairyfarmers in that state are voting on deregulation of the farm gat
28 Jan 00 | FIRST-cross ewes sold to $57, woolly spring wethers to $27, older wethers to $28.50 and unjoined Merino ewes to $36 in a strong two-part Deniliquin, NSW, sale of 62,000 sheep last week.
A big crowd of bidders at each stage of the two-part, annual Jan
28 Jan 00 | DEMAND for heifers pushed prices to $458 at the Hereford weaner sale at Casterton on Thursday.
Steers sold to $500, but it proved tough going for the Wesfarmers Dalgety selling team for the last dozen pens of heavier steers.
There was limited action
28 Jan 00 |
FURTHER developments in wool identification beyond the shearing shed load-out will spearhead activities of the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Pastoral Group in coming months.
This will be bolstered by renewed efforts to make better use of Victo
28 Jan 00 | WITH champion Holstein cows from Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne Royal shows competing, the prestige of winning at International Dairy Week was magnified this year.
Champion Holstein Cow was Hillview Park Skychief Eve, winner of the five year
28 Jan 00 |
A BUSINESS skills and best practice (BSBP) program for beef and sheepmeat producers is to be launched nationally in Melbourne on February 25.
The program has been developed by Victoria¹s Department of Natural Resources and Environment and Meat and
28 Jan 00 |
WOOLGROWERS around the country will be urged to vote for nothing less than the two per cent wool funding tax option in next month¹s landmark WoolPoll 2000 national ballot, in the wake of a meeting of national wool representatives in Sydney last week
28 Jan 00 | ABB Grain Limited announced this week its B-class shares would be tradeable from February 4 in an exempt share market operated by Computershare Clearing.
The move is the first step in ABB¹s plan to list the shares on the Australian Stock Exchange som
28 Jan 00 |
IN their first year of cropping this season, the Andersons, Darriman, south-east Gippsland, did not quite get the results they were aiming for from their wheat crop.
The yield from the Declic red wheat was not as high as targeted. But protein level
28 Jan 00 |
THE Wimmera District Council of the Victorian Farmers¹ Federation has sought assurance that strict controls will be enforced on proposed field trials of genetically modified (GM) canola and Indian mustard.
In a submission to the Genetic Manipulatio
28 Jan 00 |
THE wool stockpile of one million bales could be sold lock, stock and barrel to a private buyer within two months, following confirmation this week of several official offers to buy it.
Tim Hosking, a director of Woolstock Australia¹s financial adv
28 Jan 00 | THE positive forces responsible for wool¹s strongest prices in 18 months were here to stay, a prominent Australian wool buyer has forecast.
Southern Region Buyers Committee chairman Barry Baxter said woolgrowers could be confident the recent price ri
28 Jan 00 |
THE Australian Wool Exchange will investigate changing industry-old auction rules in a bid to speed up its electronic selling system, which it concedes is too slow to win crucial buyer support.
At a meeting in Melbourne on Monday, southern region
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