27 Jan 08 | SELLING at the Deniliquin, NSW, annual wether sale took barely an hour to complete last Thursday, hammering home a number of messages. Firstly the small number of 10,000 head assembled for this annual fixture was a concern, especially for a sale t
27 Jan 08 | FEEDER and restocker inquiry led a partial recovery of the cattle market ahead of the Australia Day long weekend. Stock selected for further finishing won a price increase of about 5-7 cents a kilogram liveweight. However fresh quality milk-fed
27 Jan 08 | ALTHOUGH soft commodity and agribusiness prices have not been immune to the slump suffered by the broader stock market, it is likely they will emerge from the global sell-off in as good a condition as anything. The market crunch, initially thought
27 Jan 08 | AUSTRALIA’S newfound romance of celebrating its national holiday with barbequed lamb sparked a startling demand at the nation’s saleyards this week. Opening the week on a slightly cheaper trading trend last Thursday the market closed on Tuesday in
27 Jan 08 | THE LIVE sheep trade continues to motor on, despite a chronic shortage of wethers With heavy wethers becoming harder to find, ships are continuing to head to eastern states and prices continue to remain very strong, with suitable sheep last week
27 Jan 08 | THREE months mightn’t be enough to iron out all the issues surrounding the transition from CDMA to the Next G mobile network, a telecommunications consultant says Postponing the switch-off of CDMA until April 28 will go a long way towards smoothin
27 Jan 08 | A GROUP of dairy farmers in south-west Victoria claim they are owed tens of thousands of dollars in additional payments for milk supplied to the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory (WCBF). Koroit farmer and renowned Holstein breeder Chris Gleeso
27 Jan 08 | A GLOBAL economic slowdown may threaten wool’s great price ride, but the market hasn’t shown it yet. In early trade this week the market was stronger again, with sales in Melbourne lifting Merino microns 10 to 20 cents and low to mid-break wools a
17 Jan 08 | AWB’S plan to normalise its constitution could meet fierce opposition from a large block of candidates seeking election to the board. The current AWB board, including A-class directors, has recommended growers vote away their A-class voting rights
17 Jan 08 | FARMERS have plenty of big questions to answer in coming months. Whether to invest their efforts – and inputs – in crop or livestock is just one. For two farming families the answers were revealed last week at the 10,000 head Merino circuit sal
17 Jan 08 | THIS crop is special. Not just because it marks the first serious foray into cereal cropping by Lawsons Angus at Yea but because it is the last that will be planted by Nick Petersen. While Nick died tragically last August from a colloid cyst, aged
17 Jan 08 | THE MAIN crossbred ewe selling season was completed last week away from the hype of the annual weaner sales. Big numbers of crossbred sheep were once again offered with the second of the Ballarat markets clearing 33,850 head last Thursday -- the c
17 Jan 08 | AT 11 years of age, Stratford’s Deon Carstairs has already done plenty of kilometres in the saddle. She notched up an extra 150 clicks riding her bay pony BJ from Stratford across the Bogong High Plains to Cobungra Station for last weekend’s 34th
17 Jan 08 | THE LAMB market consolidated its strong start to the new year with a trading range of 330-340 cents a kilogram and a top of $114 a head paid in a busy week of selling. Supplies overall were increased by less than 10 per cent with a broader variati
17 Jan 08 | The super New Zealand sire has played the single biggest role of any animal in the development of the Banquet seedstock operation at Mortlake now producing about 600 calves a year.
17 Jan 08 | BY HORSE truck, ute or helicopter, horse enthusiasts and appreciators of the mountain cattlemen turned up in droves to celebrate the 34th annual Mountain Cattlemen’s Association of Victoria get together at Cobungra Station, Junction Plain, last weeke
17 Jan 08 | On the Bransons first trip to New Zealand looking at cattle in the early 1990s, they’d tried to buy some Delmont heifers. Having missed out on the older heifers they wanted, they leased some of the younger ones and shipped them to Atahua on the No
17 Jan 08 | THE head of the Wheat Export Marketing Alliance (WEMA) says the group will continue its push to retain an orderly wheat marketing system in the absence of an effective national grower lobbying force. Most were expecting WEMA – set up to establish
17 Jan 08 | THE FIRST wool sales for 2008 have only confirmed that the new golden age for wool is here. Wool is now at its highest price point for almost five years. The last time the market ran hotter was the sharp price spike of April 2003. But unlike
17 Jan 08 | WITH plenty of choice in the market place processor buyers were reluctant to push the mantle on demand this week, causing trade young cattle prices to ease. Prime quality milk vealers as a result lost 5-10 cents a kilogram liveweight (lw) in value
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