27/11/2000 | INTERLINES Sales proprietor Greg Humphries has enjoyed some good years and weathered some tough ones during a career of nearly three decades as a machinery dealer.
But one thing that has remained constant during all that time has been the ever-rising
27/11/2000 | MANAGEMENT of tough seasons, combined with a tight economic squeeze, can be eased by a return to conventional thinking on machinery equity.
Just how farmers survive in these times is in part related to how they have managed their equity, according to
27/11/2000 |
WA Gelbvieh breeders acknowledged it was an opportunity not to be missed as they bid to $3200 for mated cows with calves at foot and $3000 for bulls from an elite gathering of stud stock at the Bellatrix Gelbvieh dispersal sale at Coolup last wee
27/11/2000 | PROMINENT WA beef processor EG Green and Sons has won the prestigious Food Processing Industry Award at the Australian National Training Awards (ANTA).
The industry awards recognise excellence and commitment to training across the broad spectrum of A
27/11/2000 | SANDRA Peirce, a student at Narrogin Agricultural College, has been blazing new trails in the study of agriculture.
Sandra, who hails from a farming family from Duranillin/Moodiarup, returned to the agricultural college after successfully completing
27/11/2000 |
GOURMET Chevups will be sizzling their way to the plates of the Japanese in two weeks.
The WA-owned and manufactured skinless sausages have been exported to Japan in a landmark deal between Gourmet Chevups and Kakuchi Co Ltd, after three years of e
27/11/2000 |
FOR small communities with even smaller schools, the decision to close doors and relocate students to bigger centres can be a heartbreaking decision.
While the classrooms may be small, averaging only 10 students and a teacher, that doesn't mean the
27/11/2000 | A FORUM for young people interested in landcare issues will be held in conjunction with the State Landcare Conference in 2001.
The theme is the integration of local experience with youthful enthusiasm to create a future together.
The youth forum wil
27/11/2000 | AGRICULTURE WA veterinary officer Michelle Rodan has been appointed regional protection manager in the northern agricultural region.
Ms Rodan will remain based at Agwest's Moora office and will take on responsibility for co-ordinating agricultural pr
27/11/2000 | THE challenge of feeding both animals and mankind in the coming decades will be debated at the 24th Annual National Conference for the Nutrition Society of Australia in Fremantle next month.
Chairman of the three-day conference, Dr Bruce Mullan from
27/11/2000 | AGRICULTURE WA has received excellent feedback on the success of the annual Woolpro Spring Tour of farms in the Mobrup area, west of Kojonup.
Agwest Woolpro adviser Myra Yelland co-ordinated the tour, which attracted a group of more than 60 farmers.
22/11/2000 |
A SINGLE line of mature Border Leicester Merino cross ewes topped the Wesfarmers Dalgety Kojonup sheep sale with ease under enthusiastic competition from two prime lamb producers.
The 121 2.5yo and 3.5yo ewes bred by Stephen Abbott, Beaufort River,
22/11/2000 | NEW National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) management committee chairman John Kerin has announced that producers voluntarily testing their flocks for OJD would be eligible for subsidies of up to $600, made available und
22/11/2000 |
A LINE of cows and calves topped the Elders Brunswick store cattle sale last Friday when they were sold for $795 a unit, but the highlight of the day was the excellent quality lines of Friesian steers and the consistent values they achieved.
Sale c
22/11/2000 | A TRIO of WA producers will soon be winging their way across the globe after winning prestigious Nuffield farming scholarships.
Merredin graingrower Neil Smith and Jerramungup farmer Sandra Forbes have won Grains Research and Development Corporation-
22/11/2000 |
DAIRY deregulation is not the reason Busselton dairy farmers John and Margret Teale are leaving the dairy industry ‹ rather it is the reason they can't leave.
They could leave simply by walking off the land that has been in the Teale family since
22/11/2000 |
PEAK farming organisations have called on the Federal Government to withdraw taxation proposals for farming trusts.
The NFF Council has called for the Government to withdraw the Entities' Taxation proposals, saying the approach being taken is draco
22/11/2000 | THE Agriculture Protection Board (APB) and Agriculture WA are claiming success in the battle with plague locusts.
The intensive campaign waged in the past three months is about to be scaled down.
Executive director of agriculture protection Rob Dela
22/11/2000 |
THE National Farmers Federation is seeking more than $500,000 from the Farmers Fighting Fund to kick off a renewed push on trade reform.
But with the World Trade Organisation process stalled and agricultural protection once again as bad as it was 1
22/11/2000 | THE opening of the stonefruit season last week was a proud moment for local growers, not only for the yearly harvest results but for the emergence of new varieties to extend the season.
New varieties, which can be grown in warmer climates and do not
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