13 Jan 06 | The south-east once again proved itself to be the nursery of the Australian beef industry over the past week with more than 28,000 weaner calves sold through six saleyards across the region. While prices were back on last year's highs by about $10
13 Jan 06 | THE RISE and rise of the Australian lamb industry is set to continue in 2006. "It is a booming industry, it is as if the world just can't get enough," said Meat and Livestock Australia international marketing general manager Hugh Amoyal. Re
13 Jan 06 | AWB's controversial right of veto on bulk wheat export licences has again come under fire, with Liberal MP Wilson Tuckey joining the throng of detractors calling for it to be revoked. The veto vote in cases to come before the Wheat Export Auth
13 Jan 06 | MEAT and Livestock Australia has defended itself against claims its funding of CSIRO research led to a pro-red-meat bias in the popular CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet. Well-known nutritionists John Tickell, from the TV show Celebrity Overhaul, and
13 Jan 06 | MOUNTAIN cattlemen driving cattle through the Alpine National Park on horseback this week labelled the State Government's management of fire risk in the park as "a disgrace". The cattlemen were taking a small group of cattle through the park a
13 Jan 06 | DONATIONS have flooded in from across the state for victims of the Stawell fires overwhelming local authorities. The Northern Grampians Shire Council said there had been such a generous response from both local and statewide communities that t
06 Jan 06 | BUSHFIRES in the state's west, centre and north east burnt through more than 7500 hectares of forest and private land in searing conditions over the weekend. The fires caused the deaths of around 2000 livestock and tens of thousands of dollars
06 Jan 06 | A FARMER near Ensay is questioning why the Department of Primary Industries has not sprayed for locusts on his property, after gaining his permission two weeks ago. Barry Wood and some other landholders were contacted by the DPI shortly before
06 Jan 06 | VICTORIA'S torturous harvest continued to crawl towards completion with another week marked by hold-ups in the form of hot weather and wind, followed by rain. Despite this, most growers are smiling, with good yields and quality providing them wit
06 Jan 06 | PROTESTERS against the live sheep trade are not listening to the facts, Roberts livestock general manager Chris Taylor said this week. A group of three members of Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania handed out information on the trade outside Robe
06 Jan 06 | THE DEBATE has been robust, at times fierce, but from the January all sheep born in Australia now have to be eartagged with national livestock identification system (NLIS) tags. A controversial exemption to the system involves stock sold direc
06 Jan 06 | The 2006 calf-selling season opened at Hamilton on Monday with what agents described as "good, solid, honest and sensible prices". The 6500 calves sold at the season opening sales averaged just over $600, in line with end of 2005 rates. At la
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