26 Jan 02 | PROFIT drivers and the cost of production have been identified as the most important issue confronting the Victorian beef industry. Consistency of supply - both quantity and quality - is the second most important issue, followed closely by sustain
26 Jan 02 | Judge Phil Malcolm admitted to nerves in looking for winners in the strong Guernsey line-up at International Dairy Week on Monday. But when the dust settled it was the Cleggett family from South Australia who were both premier breeder and exhibito
26 Jan 02 | THE 2002 Murray Grey International Group Breedplan genetic evaluation has made history. The Murray Grey breed society is the first to pool the pedigree performance databases of all member associations to set a record for the number of databases combi
26 Jan 02 | CATTLEMEN can bid with even greater confidence on Whiteface bulls this autumn after a rapid surge in objective carcase measurement being provided by seedstock breeders. The volume of intra-muscular fat (IMF) data analysed in the 2002 Hereford sire
26 Jan 02 | CONTAINERISED wheat exporters came out of a meeting with top bureaucrats of the Wheat Export Authority (WEA) reasonably satisfied that a little progress had been made. Led by the National Agricultural Commodities Marketing Assoc-iation Ltd (NA
26 Jan 02 | ANGRY Tasmanian meat workers delayed the turnaround of live-sheep export vessel, the Maysora, at Devonport overnight on Monday, warning they would fight any resumption of the multi-million dollar trade in the State. About 30 members of the Aus
26 Jan 02 | THE DAIRY industry was in the mood to celebrate this week when International Dairy Week kicked off in the purpose-built, $2.6 million Tatura Park facility on Monday. Strong international prices for milk products over the last couple of years a
26 Jan 02 | NOW IS a good time to be planning pasture development programs in the year ahead but it may already be too late to secure seed supplies for some cultivars. Pacific Seeds agronomist Gavin Milne said Italian ryegrass in particular was in short s
18 Jan 02 | DETAILED plans to overhaul elements of the National Party's organisational structure will be delivered to state National Party presidents in the next week, setting Federal NP leader John Anderson on a collision course with the states. Spurred
18 Jan 02 | THE SEVERE cuts in container wheat export quotas this year and the loss of markets that is causing will be two of several issues raised by the National Agricultural Commodities Marketing Asso-ciation (NACMA) at a meeting with top Wheat Export Aut
18 Jan 02 | LAST week's big increase in the wool market has triumphantly dispelled predictions that it would fall flat early this year. The increase of more than 10 per cent was the biggest weekly gain in 10 years. Experts are tentatively tipping a vol
11 Jan 02 | Concern about its underutilised processing volumes will see Bonlac Co-operative mount a campaign in New Zealand later this month to lure dairy farmers across the Tasman. The search for skilled New Zealand dairy farmers has also been prompted b
11 Jan 02 | COOL weather and rain last week and winds early this week kept grain-growers in west Wimmera and south-west Victoria away from harvesting. The lower day temperatures is also delaying ripening of wheat crops, leaving farmers from Kaniva in the
11 Jan 02 | The Victorian dairy industry has long been recognised as the main contributor to local economies in the major dairy producing areas of the state. But the continued growth in dairy production and more intensive production methods has meant that
11 Jan 02 | and STEPHEN COOKE VICTORIAN dairy producers will be the main beneficiaries of a burgeoning export trade in dairy heifers, fuelled by the Australian dollar and export restrictions of countries affected by mad cow (BSE) and foot and mouth diseas
11 Jan 02 | Prime and store markets have settled in reasonably well to the new year, carrying forth much of the confidence levels held in end-of year sales. An area of apprehension is still the export field, where markets have taken a sizeable tumble this
11 Jan 02 | ALTHOUGH store markets have attracted increased prices across the state this month there is apprehension in the export field, where prices fell heavily this week, some in the order of 15-20 cents a kilogram. Feedlotters and northern background
11 Jan 02 | WESTERN Victoria's Green Triangle area is set for a multi-million dollar shot in the arm under a $100m salvage deal for failed bluegum plantation manager Australian Plantation Timber announced on Friday. Under the deal, thousands of hectares o
11 Jan 02 | RISING water tables and surface salinity are issues that are all too common for many Australian farmers. And on the Hulands' family property Ramley, near Wakool in southern NSW, the first signs of salinity had appeared in a low gully in the mi
04 Jan 02 | HARVESTING in the Wimmera is winding up and getting started in the Western District as receival reports suggest the Victorian grain harvest could equal or even surpass last year's. GrainCorp Ltd southern division manager Jack Tansley said Vict
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