27 Sep 07 | A LANDMARK case between farmers and the Tasmanian Government set to go to the Supreme Court could have national water ramifications. Farmers at Bothwell in the Tasmanian midlands are taking the State Government to court over their local Catchment
27 Sep 07 | GRAINCORP may have damaged its chances of working with the proposed AusWheat entity, should it get off the ground, after it was found that the bulk handler was behind the unsourced Wheat08 website. The much talked about website is full of mostly a
27 Sep 07 | ONLY the sound of rain in the gauge would be sweeter than the announcement of new drought assistance measures this week, with the Federal Government responding to farmers’ calls to protect the nation’s food bowl and buffer the major social devastatio
27 Sep 07 | FEDERAL Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran will call on Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) operators to justify their water use, this week accusing them of taking too much water. Speaking after a meeting with struggling Sunraysia-based growers in Mi
27 Sep 07 | THE eastern young cattle indicator (ECYI) closed lower again this week, shaving a further 3.5 per cent from the value of the Australian cattle herd. The benchmark indicator, which has lost almost 10pc in the past fortnight, closed on Tuesday at 29
27 Sep 07 | TARGETED spending works. That’s the most important lesson to come out of the Test Marketing Project (TMP) in the United States according to newly elected WoolProducers president Don Hamblin. A 48-page report on the project was finally released thi
27 Sep 07 | THE overwhelming theme to resonate time and again at the Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association (ALPA) conference held in Sydney at the weekend was the need to focus on the wellbeing of the client/supplier base. Several key speakers
27 Sep 07 | THE WHEAT Export Marketing Alliance (WEMA) has released its business plan for the implementation of AusWheat, the new entity it wants to set up to manage the wheat export single desk. The 31-page plan, developed in conjunction with leading auditin
27 Sep 07 | AUSTRALIA’S wool clip has slumped to a 60 year low. The Australian Wool Production Forecasting Committee this week put the 2007-08 clip at 395 million kilograms, back seven per cent on last year, in a reflection of drastically reduced flock number
20 Sep 07 | AUSTRALIA’S battle for its share of the beef market in Japan may have just begun. Feed costs soaring under the effects of drought, and the high value of the Australian dollar against the yen, are hurting importers who have no room to move in this
20 Sep 07 | WITH no change to the season and conditions becoming grim in a number of areas, supplies offered at the major southern saleyards jumped 15 to 20 per cent this week, reducing demand across the board. As a consequence, sales of young cattle and cows
20 Sep 07 | FURIOUS grower groups in Victoria and Western Australia have threatened to withhold wheat from AWB’s national pool unless there are changes to the recently released services agreement for the final pool that AWB will administer. The Victorian Farm
20 Sep 07 | IT’S the estimate traders worldwide have been waiting for. National commodity forecaster, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), this week revised its winter crop estimate to 25.6 million tonnes – a drop of 30 per cent
20 Sep 07 | KYNETON-based domestic and export meat processor Gary Hardwick was made the Maersk “Distinguished Australian of the Year” at the 2007 Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) meat industry conference in Queensland last week. The prestigious meat in
20 Sep 07 | LAMB supplies were trimmed in response to last week’s much cheaper price trend bringing a mixed reaction from the buying force in opening sales early this week. At regional fortnightly markets, like Deniliquin and Finley in southern NSW, numbers
20 Sep 07 | MEAT and Livestock Australia (MLA) has slammed a report in a medical journal asserting that the world’s growing appetite for meat is increasing greenhouse gas emissions, as unrealistic, impractical and, in parts, plain wrong. Writing in The Lance
20 Sep 07 | NEW clients added extra fuel to the bidding at the Mathews family’s Borambil Merino on-property ram sale at Balldale, NSW, last week. In a result that defied seasonal conditions, vendors, Rodger, Kim, Shayne and Nicole Mathews, achieved a complete
20 Sep 07 | CONSIDERING the perception relayed by Australian Wool Innovation United States product manager Stuart McCull-ough recently that most people in the US thought Merino was a place in Italy, the gasps of delight from fashion industry figures at last week
19 Sep 07 | The odds of a reasonable finish to the season in south-eastern Australia have improved, with the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) saying there is now a good chance of a La Nina developing.
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