29 Dec 00 | WA Droughtmaster stud Leichhardt has recently purchased 29 cows from the Waratah stud, Texas, Queensland.
Leichhardt stud principal Tim Darcy, who runs the stud on Lyndon station, Carnarvon, said he had being on the lookout for quality Droughtmaster
29 Dec 00 |
THE WA Government's recent announcement that drought-affected small business owners will receive help in assessing the state of their businesses has been labeled as window dressing by the Farm Machinery Dealers Association (FMDA).
Small Business Mi
27 Dec 00 | AGRICULTURE WA research into the use of fertiliser to protect lime stockpiles from wind erosion is producing impressive results.
Trials undertaken at Jurien Bay and Wongan Hills by Agwest development offers Sally-Anne Penny and Dave Gartner have had
27 Dec 00 |
SPECTACULAR growth has resulted from the mixed sowing of pasture legume varieties on a Narrikup farm.
The lush growth impressed 40 farmers who attended an informal field day on the 580ha farm of prime lamb producers Kelvin and Estelle Ridgway. They
27 Dec 00 | HIGH prices and lower-than-expected levels of disease have made for an excellent year for WA pulse crops, despite gloomy expectations.
Agriculture WA leader for the pulse sub-program Kadambot Siddique said there was no reason why farmers shouldn't co
20 Dec 00 |
QUALITY lines of cattle met with strong competition at this year's Wesfarmers Dalgety springing heifer sale held at Boyanup last Thursday.
A total of 388 heifers went under the hammer with prices reaching a top of $1100 on the day, while the averag
20 Dec 00 | Eating quality seen as pork's No.1 challenge
By TIFFANY CAMAC
A HIGHLY competitive food market that meets consumer needs is the key to the future success of the Australian pork industry.
This was the message from Agriculture WA research officer Dr
20 Dec 00 |
PRICES soared at the Elders Combined Holstein Breeders sale at Boyanup last week when stud heifers offered by BW and RT Harris, Waterloo, topped at $1550 for a 2.5-year-old Friesian cow.
The sale offered 35 stud cows and 25 lots (133 head) of comme
20 Dec 00 |
CONTINUED strong demand for beef cattle saw a line of nine Murray Grey/Friesian cross heifers, mated to an Angus bull, fetch $1080 at the Elders Annual Female sale at Bridgetown.
The vendors, RW & DL Meade, Balingup, sold 32 Murray Grey/Friesian he
20 Dec 00 |
PETERS and Brownes managing director Graham Laitt has made it clear his contracts with producers are for all their milk and therefore can't supply milk to both his company and the farmer-owned Challenge Dairy Co-operative.
This could present a quan
20 Dec 00 |
WITHIN six years, bluegum plantations could cover more than 200,000 hectares in WA, forcing more social change in rural areas.
This was one of the issues that attracted more than 200 people to a bluegum plantation industry and community forum at Mt
20 Dec 00 | PLANT quality seed is the message from the Canola Association of WA to farmers planning next year's canola plantings.
Association chairman John Bostock said many growers would be trying to squeeze their budgets and save on purchasing fresh seed for n
20 Dec 00 | A MAJOR initiative to double malting barley production in Australia's cooler, higher rainfall areas is under way in a five-state plant breeding program.
The program is being co-ordinated from the University of Tasmania, with key inputs from barley b
20 Dec 00 |
THE function nutrients play with wool follicle and its link to wool quality could hold the key to greater wool production.
Nutrition and its effect on wool quality was the subject of CSIRO senior principal research scientist David Masters at this m
20 Dec 00 |
WOOLBROKERS and wool buyers have become deadlocked in their attempts to sort out a selling roster in the wake of Primaries and Wool Agency leaving the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) in Fremantle.
During an AWEX regional committee meeting earlier t
20 Dec 00 |
A 1998 FEDERAL Government decision to freeze sales from the wool stockpile has returned to haunt thousands of Australian woolgrowers, who now have less than two weeks to repay substantial loans borrowed against their equity in the stockpile.
Woolgr
20 Dec 00 |
EQUITY holders in Woolstock Australia can now trade their Woolstock shares on the Australian Stock Exchange.
The company will make its temporary public listing on the ASX under the code WSK from today.
Woolstock Australia chairman Donald McGauch
15 Dec 00 | MILYEANUP Pastoral Company principals John and Barbara Dunnet, Scott River, believe that buying grassfed bulls offers buyers the opportunity to see the animals "in their working clothes". The coastal property, which was developed in the 1960s,
15 Dec 00 | A TASTE evaluation of F2 Damara meat in Subiaco was greeted with great enthusiasm by about 15 guests last week. The Damara dinner was hosted in a private home by AgWest Trade and Development and Business Today. It was the third of three ta
15 Dec 00 | CROPS that have failed due to the adverse seasonal conditions are still of value for sheep production. One of the best options for making the most of failed crops is to use them to help finish lambs over summer. Agriculture WA research offi
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