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Lamb buoyant: cattle still weak but improving

4:00 AM AEST | FOR the second week running, livestock markets have remained stable, representing a pause in the seasonal rise in cattle values, according to the week’s summary from Meat and Livestock Australia. | Cattle indicators reach new ... | WA's high sheep prices continue ... | SLIDESHOW: Photos from Rocky Junior Beef

No cause for alarm on wheat prices: Bartholomaeus

4:00 AM AEST | AUSTRALIAN farmers are largely shunning forward marketing options for the new season crop, with futures coming under the traditional North American harvest pressure. | WA and SA consider grains alliance Visit Stock Journal

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Banjo, Clancy, Matilda: Winton's new dinos

04 Jul 09 | THE remains of three dinosaurs unearthed near Winton in central Queensland place Australia back on the international dinosaur map - and include a fierce, meat-eating dinosaur with three large slashing claws on each hand.

Garrett launches major feral cull

June rainfall lifts rural outlook across wide area

Fresh lift in meat marketing

Rail rolling stock given away to grain firm Visit The Land

Wool starts 2009-10 with steady prices, despite higher $A

Town offers $1 rents to break resident drought

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MULTIMEDIA

VIDEO: Sky News rural analysis: Consumer trends good news for farmers

03 Jul 09 | In this week's Sky News and Rural Press video report, Canberra correspondent Lucy Knight details the latest on the carbon debate from the United States, as well as what changing consumer buying trends mean for farmers.

SLIDESHOW: Photos from Rocky Junior Beef

VIDEO: 'Header heaven' for machinery dealer

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STATE NEWS

Lamb buoyant again: cattle lift, but still weak

04 Jul 09 | FOR the second week running, livestock markets have remained stable, representing a pause in the seasonal rise in cattle values, according to Meat and Livestock Australia’s (MLA) week’s summary.

Town offers $1 rents to break resident drought

04 Jul 09 | A TREE change could cost families less than a cup of coffee, with a drought-hit Mallee town offering farmhouses for a dollar a week.

Dairy intervention softens fall but slows recovery

Mites hitting lucerne fleas in cereal crops

Care focus reduces live export mortality

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$19m for camel cull

THE Federal Government will spend $19 million to cull camels in northern and western Australia ...

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METRO & REGIONAL

Bright idea puts paid to power bills

12:46 AM AEST | As energy bills rise by 20 per cent, meet the man who pays nothing for electricity to power his four-bedroom house.

Elephant calf born at Taronga

Princess cruises through tough times in fine style

Saint, soccer on PM agenda

Ibrahim cops the jail shuffle

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WORLD NEWS

Plotting secret agents force their chief to fall on his own sword

12:05 AM AEST | SPAIN'S spy chief, Alberto Saiz, has been forced to resign after his own agents turned on him, employing the tricks of the trade to overthrow their boss at the country's National Intelligence Centre, or CNI.

North Korea fires seven more missiles, defying UN resolutions

Six die in south London apartment block fire

Palin steps down

New Yorkers shocked by our crying boy

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Blogs

We're all fools for utegate

01 Jul 09 | The ridiculous ironies and double standards of both politicians and the media were on show for all to see with the ‘utegate’ scandal, online editor Michael Thomson writes, but he says no-one is the better for it.

Irrigators are people, too

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