27 Jan 05 | State won't budge on fences VICTORIAN FARMERS are furious the State Government will not pay for half the cost of fencing destroyed by the recent Balmoral bushfires. The Victorian Farmers' Federation had asked the State Government to assist
27 Jan 05 | Mountain cattlemen and the Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) continue to go head to head over grazing the Alpine National Park. The Bracks Government's alpine grazing taskforce is expected to make a recommendation next month on whether s
27 Jan 05 | NEW ZEALAND dairy giant Fonterra has moved to keep its options alive in the takeover battle for Australia's largest fresh dairy marketer, National Foods. Early this week Fonterra extended the expiry date for its bid from February 1 to February 15.
27 Jan 05 | YOU WILL NOT read it in a capital city newspaper or see it on the evening news, but the live sheep trade is reducing sheep deaths on its ships. While activists for animal liberation and rights movements continue to wave placards asking for the
27 Jan 05 | THE AUSTRALIAN wool industry may be severely damaged by the time the current legal case against animal activists is settled. This is the legal advice being given within large wool firms invited to join the Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) case
27 Jan 05 | ANOTHER rural industry has taken up arms against radical animal rights activists. The pork industry is the latest to reach the end of its tether after the spread of misinformation and trespassing by animal liberationists. Last month five fa
27 Jan 05 | Grower representative body WoolProducers has stepped up the debate for more funding for wool marketing and promotion. The group has asked both Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) and The Woolmark Company (TWC) for a full cost-benefit analysis sup
27 Jan 05 | THE KORUMBURRA saleyards and a 43.4-hectare piece of land close by will be sold, following a decision by the South Gippsland Shire Council last week. Council chief executive officer Joseph Cullen said the council discussed building new saleya
20 Jan 05 | AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation (AWI) has this week intensified its fight against People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in the Federal Court. The claim for damages against the animal rights group has been altered, with 72 individual wo
20 Jan 05 | Lamb in headlines again CONTROVERSY has helped promote lamb, with the Advertising Standards Bureau at one point threatening to withdraw an advertisement for lamb in the lead-up to Australia Day. The latest Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA
20 Jan 05 | THE RURAL community has given farmers affected by the recent bushfires at Telangatuk, near Balmoral in Victoria's west, a massive show of support, with offers of assistance flooding in. Offers from as far as Shepparton in the Goulburn Valley a
20 Jan 05 | A cry has gone out for the Bracks Government to help fund replacement fencing after a fire swept across 9000ha near Balmoral last week. Victorian Farmers Federation president Paul Weller said the fire started on Crown land and that it was the gove
20 Jan 05 | New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra continues to hold off on a decision to up its bid for National Foods but market analysts speculate that such a move is imminent. In late October Fonterra offered $5.45 a share for NFD, valuing the listed Austra
20 Jan 05 | FARMERS this year face some hard choices regarding their cropping programs this year. Poor commodity prices, limited cash flow and agronomic factors are all likely to influence growers. Alistair Murdoch, of North West Ag in Ouyen, one of th
20 Jan 05 | SPURRED by water shortages and low grain prices, increasing numbers of Victorian sheep producers are feedlotting their lambs, according to Department of Primary Industries sheep and wool officer Gary Hallam. Mr Hallam addressed a workshop on g
20 Jan 05 | A top price of $9400 for a 1.5-year-old Jersey heifer set the tone for Inter-national Dairy Week 2005, where a day of strong competition for coloured breeds climaxed at a combined breeds evening sale. The total offering of 63 lots from the Jer
06 Jan 05 | LIVING and working on the land can mean long hours and a solitary existence with limited social outings making it hard to meet that special someone. Does that describe you or maybe someone you know who is single, 18 or over, lives in the country
06 Jan 05 | FARMERS have failed to take up Animal Liberation's offer of $1000 to publicly mules a sheep, Animal Liberation South Australia campaign manager Ralph Hahnheuser said last week. The challenge to mules a sheep in a capital city was issued in late No
06 Jan 05 | FARMERS should be working with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals rather than against them, a Benalla sheep farmer said last week. John Houghton runs 3200 Merino ewes on his 348-hectare property and does not support the Australian Woo
06 Jan 05 | COW-CALF producers are celebrating some of the highest prices ever paid for weaner steers following this week's bright start to the 2005 weaner calf selling season. But backgrounders are ruing the $120-$150 a head more that they have had to pa
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