30 Sep 03 | AFTER attending and talking with agents at the annual general meeting and dinner of the Stock and Station Agents Association in Sydney last Friday I have no doubt the biggest influence on all livestock markets in the past fortnight has been the weath
30 Sep 03 | YOU COULD be excused for thinking this year's Royal Melbourne Show is the Royal Ashbank Show. The Dubbo-based Poll Dorset stud, owned by the Dixon family, Ashbank stud, Dubbo, NSW, dominated the sheep section in the first week of the show, taking
30 Sep 03 | THE usually sombre cattle sheds at Royal Melbourne Show were abuzz with talk of a regional-based autumn beef expo this week. It appeared most wanted to promote stock to a more relevant audience in commercial breeders, but also to coincide with
30 Sep 03 | RED MEAT wholesalers and retailers now have all the information they need at the touch of a button with the launch of Meat and Livestock Australia's CD-rom -"Your interactive guide to red meat" - last week. The trade-based CD features everything f
30 Sep 03 | NEXT TIME you see a black or coloured sheep, don't curse it as it may be worth a lot of money to you. Jan Brown, Amphitheatre, not only has an appropriate surname for her pursuit of breeding such animals but also sells much of her wool as five
30 Sep 03 | TRACTOR sales may be down, but that has not stopped the Tractor and Machinery Association of Australia (TMA) warning that equipment shortages are on the cards. TMA executive director, Vin Delahunty, said the drought had forced some machinery m
30 Sep 03 | Supplies to most eastern prime markets slowed this week in response to last week's softer trading terms, especially for export cattle. Numbers sold at main Victorian saleyards fell by around 20 per cent. All categories were equally affected, i
30 Sep 03 | THE DAY was cold, windy and showery, with brief interludes of sunshine. But Birchip Cropping Group-Wimmera Farming Systems chairman Ian McClelland rated attendance at his field day one of the highest in years. "We actually counted 702 people wh
30 Sep 03 | LAMB and sheep prices eased across the board this week as processor buyers won back some of the losses accumulated over several months of high-priced trading. Supply of lamb, in particular, generally stayed about the same, however an increased
30 Sep 03 | THE DAYS of prime lamb prices reaching the dizzying heights of more than 450 cents a kilogram carcase weight appear to be over for now. A significant increase in the number of sucker lambs coming on to the market in the last two weeks has ease
30 Sep 03 | WITH the end of the first month of spring looming, and stage one of the new season lamb marketing campaigns from the early-joining districts nearing completion, it is difficult to gauge the success of this year's lamb restocking campaign. Firstly,
30 Sep 03 | IT WAS the icing on the cake for Joe Brothers, Lochton Pastoral, when his newly purchased Limousin cow was crowned supreme exhibit at Royal Melbourne Show last Sunday. Lochton Pastoral bought Premier Cauliflower S3 from Fred and Michelle Geard, Be
30 Sep 03 | ANIMAL activists intent on shutting down the live sheep trade have disrupted the loading of a sheep ship in Portland, striking a further blow to the trade. Spurred by the adverse publicity surrounding the sheep stranded on the Cormo Express in
30 Sep 03 | AFTER living on Somerset Farm all his life and milking cows for 30 years, Tony Baldwin has decided it's time to move on. So he and wife Mandy have listed for sale their 163-hectare farm at Irrewillipe, near Colac. Last season, the Baldwins
30 Sep 03 | OVER the past five years the GippsDairy Focus Farm program has provided some interesting insights into dairy farming in Victoria, but the latest series will break new ground by following Wendy and Peter Wallace as they convert their farm to organic m
18 Sep 03 | EFFORTS by the Victorian Farmers Federation grains group and the Grains Council of Australia to resolve their dispute appear to be at a stalemate. While grains group president Ian Hastings last week would not reveal progress in the dispute, wh
18 Sep 03 | MARIUS CUMING STRONG winds and driving rain are sapping the recovery of the already depleted Australian sheep flock. Thousands of young lambs across the state have been killed by the extreme weather conditions that have marked the first fo
18 Sep 03 | FRUSTRATED beef cattle exhibitors fed-up with the archaic Melbourne showground facilities and unfulfilled promises for change are considering abandoning the city for a regional-based beef extravaganza. Similar to the successful Dairy Week and
18 Sep 03 | Wool brokers have reported a large drop in wool received for the first two months of this wool-selling season. Elders technical manager, Simon Hogan said the drop had surprised many in the industry, with the wet August weather partly to blame.
18 Sep 03 | What's in Store by MURRAY ARNEL WHILE Stock & Land's store stock guru Mike Nixon has no doubt feasted on oysters and his favourite amber fluid on the NSW south coast in readiness for the Stock and Station Agents conference in Sydney this weeke
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