21 Sep 01 | TERRORIST attacks in the United States last week triggered several short-term effects on Australian agricultural markets, but just what the long impact of the attacks will be, remains unclear. Wool auctions were suspended for a day and wheat p
21 Sep 01 | Tom Turner, Professor of Animal Sciences at the Ohio State University, told his Warrnambool audience one in four steaks from United States supermarkets had delivered an unsatisfactory eating experience. "How long could any other business stay
21 Sep 01 | WOOL producers who have sacrificed fleece weight in pursuit of finer microns may be questioning their decision, as the price pendulum pushes further in favour of medium to broader wools. Weakening demand based on global economic slowdown has s
21 Sep 01 | THE wool industry's official wool production forecasting committee has confirmed speculation and dramatically downgraded its formal estimate of Australia's national clip size. The joint Australian Wool Exchange/ Australian Bureau of Agricultur
21 Sep 01 | Irrigation pastures produce more from less By PETER J AUSTIN BOOSTING the production and usage of irrigated perennial pastures has allowed a Dhurringile family to double the amount of milk they produce from each megalitre of irrigation
21 Sep 01 | AUSTRALIA is expected to export 90,000 tonnes of beef to Korea next year, 40,000t more than this year, in a further boost to current price trends. The announcement was made by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) just days after Korea had to rem
21 Sep 01 | RURAL commodity markets have so far escaped relatively unscathed in the aftermath of last week's unprecedented terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. An overview of how the main agricultural commodities have fared is provided below.
14 Sep 01 | YOU CAN tell there was good early rain this season by the swathes of yellow early sown canola that is now in full flower across parts of the State. Where the rainfall was erratic and delayed, and the sowing late, canola is beginning to flower.
14 Sep 01 | A STRIKING feature of the Gippsland Dairy Focus Farm project is the way it gives people the chance to look over the shoulder of dairy farmers in different settings as they go about the daily tasks in this challenging industry. And for the more
14 Sep 01 | A DURUM forum next month aims to instill a national perspective in the fragmented industry in order to achieve results that benefit the industry as a whole, the organiser said this week. Pete Mailler, the Queensland grower and agricultural con
14 Sep 01 | THE SCENE in country Australia was something of a paradox, Prime Minister John Howard said last week. Addressing a joint Rural Press Club of Victoria and Melbourne Media Club lunch, he said the growing divide between city and country Australia
14 Sep 01 | Findings from the first year of a direct drilling project in the Mallee were mixed. But there was enough to show that with more work and greater understanding, direct drilling could be made to work. MARIO SEQUEIRA reports in the concluding part of th
14 Sep 01 | Victorian beef producers are at the forefront of a new project to produce cattle to meet market specifications 52 weeks a year. The projects, involving western district and north-east producers, are jointly funded by the Department of Natural
14 Sep 01 | THOSE for and against the proposed merger of the Hereford and Poll Hereford Societies have wheeled in overseas experiences to support their particular view. Craig Huffhines, executive vice- president, American Hereford Association, said the me
14 Sep 01 | OFFICIAL wool production forecasters will lower dramatically their estimates of the size of the national clip next week, highlighting a supply squeeze that is approaching critical levels according to some processors. The Australian Wool Excha
07 Sep 01 | FEARS are mounting in Britain that the foot and mouth disease (FMD) crisis, which has already cost the British economy an estimated 14 billion pounds, and the Government alone 2.3 billion pounds, might be poised for a new wave of outbreaks. Ac
07 Sep 01 | MERINO ram sales are booming. At four multi-vendor sales around the nation since July more than 600 rams have sold, netting nearly $2.2 million for Australia's stud breeders. This represents an average $1100 more than for the same sales last y
07 Sep 01 | WHEAT exporters could get quarterly or annual permits to niche markets under a revised export consent system, the first details of which emerged this week. The longer-term consents are part of the Government's response to the national competit
07 Sep 01 | THE Australian Woolgrowers Association will disband by October, after its members last week voted to wind-up the five-year-old breakaway wool group. The vote affirms the group's often stated view that wool producers, as shareholders/owners of
07 Sep 01 | HEREFORD and Poll Hereford stud breeders will this week begin voting on the proposed merger of their breed societies. Ballot papers were posted this week. Breeders have six weeks to vote. A 75 per cent acceptance of both memberships is need
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