19 Jan 07 | THE BREEDERS of the Flagship barley variety enjoyed their Friday evening beers even more than usual recently, sampling the fruits of their labour, which has produced a result likely to please lovers of the amber fluid, along with farmers across the c
19 Jan 07 | DEVASTATED producers in East Gippsland, hit hard by bushfires that raged through the Tambo Valley last week, continue to battle blazes threatening their land. Exhausted from weeks of waiting and preparing and weary from fighting the fires, far
19 Jan 07 | GOULBURN system irrigators have been given access to a further 7000 megalitres of temporary water after Water Minister John Thwaites announced plans on Tuesday to release environmental water being held in Lake Eildon. Regional water authority
19 Jan 07 | AUSTRALIAN farmers will have access to a new noodle wheat, designed for export to high-value Asian noodle markets with AWB recently classifying the new Binnu variety as acceptable to be delivered into the ASWN (noodle wheat) segregation. Developed
19 Jan 07 | RAINWATER collected from roofs will not be taxed either now or in the future according to both State and Federal Governments who this week said householders could claim their tank rebates without fear of financial repercussions. Federal water spok
19 Jan 07 | FARMERS with fire-affected and hungry stock were prevented from receiving essential supplies due to road closures after the latest onslaught of bushfires in East Gippsland. Trucks with relief supplies were forced to stop at roadblocks at Bruth
19 Jan 07 | The celebratory atmosphere of International Dairy Week 2007 gave way to reality at the stud Jersey and Brown Swiss sales at the Tatura show complex on Tuesday night when buyers took a decidedly cautions approach. The top price was $11,000 for
19 Jan 07 | THE HEREFORD and Poll Hereford Societies officially announced yesterday they would merge to form a new entity, Herefords Australia Limited (HAL). The decision has ended years of debate between society members and whiteface cattle breeders across t
16 Jan 07 | Cattle prices ran with the bulls all though this week despite increased and seasonally heavy supplies. The largest supply increase came in the cow section where numbers ran to nearly 60 per cent higher in Victorian markets. Young cattle turn-o
16 Jan 07 | Prime lamb and sheep markets felt the pressure of increased and heavy supply early this week. Prices at the major markets of Bendigo and Ballarat eased $3-$8 a head, with best trade lambs faring best while heavy lambs and all sheep classes suffere
16 Jan 07 | Does the theory: “It’s another day closer to the break and sheep could really get dear then” serve as an adequate reason to explain the sudden surge in mutton and store sheep prices at the beginning of this year? Fear of a possible shortage is one
12 Jan 07 | IT FELL heavily and it was wonderful. No less than 27 millimetres of rain was welcomed at Ray Brooks' property, Eloora, Cavendish, last Saturday and with 18mm the week before that makes a grand total of 45mm for the year to date. Travelling aro
12 Jan 07 | CATTLE returned to the Bogong High Plains yesterday despite a State Government ban on grazing in the Alpine National Park. Defiant mountain cattleman Philip Maguire led his cattle out of Mt Bundarrah Station, near Anglers Rest, onto the high p
12 Jan 07 | THE AUSTRALIAN wool industry has just received a massive blast from China. Wool processors who combined buy 30 per cent of the Australian clip have banded together to produce a strongly worded five page document outlining how unhappy they are
12 Jan 07 | WATER authorities have reacted strongly against recent allegations of toxic algae outbreak made by mainstream media. Angered over the alarmist tactics used, authorities ask land holders to remain vigilant in their water practices and continue
12 Jan 07 | THE SUNRAYSIA region in the north-west of the state is rejoicing in the wake of the State Government's decision to halt plans to construct a toxic waste dump facility at Nowingi, south of Mildura. The government this week announced it would no
10 Jan 07 | Mutton prices skyrocketed through the first full week of trading in 2007, with a massive $15- $20 a head increase catapulting selling rates back beyond 150c/kg. The meteoric rise in sheep valuations materialised on a minimum amount of rain for mo
10 Jan 07 | Segments of the cattle and sheep markets have performed brilliantly in these early days of 2007 with confidence growing that last year’s trading pattern has been broken with the change to the new year. Annual weaner sales, which are currently in f
10 Jan 07 | Restockers and feeder buyers drove prime cattle markets higher on the back of strong results at this week’s annual weaner sales. Prices for steers and heifers suitable to feed were 10-15 cents a kilograms liveweight higher while trade young cattle
05 Jan 07 | GOULBURN Murray Water has had to scale back applications from Lower Goulburn irrigators to temporarily trade water above the weir after the 5000 megalitre trade opportunity was oversubscribed. Despite the drought and a record low 24 per cent alloc
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