24 Dec 01 | LAST week's Elders Boyanup feeder cattle sale was very solid with a single 226kg Murray Grey steer topping the sale at 231c/kg when it was bought by Harvey farmer Jerry Morgan. But it was a pen of 10 Angus steers that made the biggest impact s
24 Dec 01 | THE current new and used product shortage in WA could be a defining moment for the industry. The "ripple effect" will be seen immediately with demand for good used machinery almost certain to see combine harvesters and tractors snapped up.
24 Dec 01 | AMAZONE Groundkeeper machines have made a name locally for their ability to mow, dethatch, scarify, roll, collect and mulch - effectively making these units "six machines in one". The patented quick-change flail knives are available for cuttin
24 Dec 01 | COMMERCIAL dairy females fetched an unbelievable $1700/head at Boyanup last week, unprecedented in living memory. The occasion was the Elders dairy female sale at Boyanup last Thursday and both Elders luminaries, Doug Slater and Rusty Miller,
24 Dec 01 | MURRAY Grey-Friesian cross springing heifers continued to steal the limelight at female cattle sales when a line of five sold for $1560 at last week's Elders Bridgetown annual female cattle sale. This was $40 more than the top price at the Eld
24 Dec 01 | IN just a couple of hours last Thursday and heralding the festive season, the WA cattle industry was made richer by $475,690. That was the gross from two Elders sales, first at Boyanup where mated Friesian commercial heifers created what is believ
24 Dec 01 | INTERNATIONAL agricultural exchange student Polly Britcher is astonished by the distances which separate neighbouring farmhouses in WA. Polly has lived her 23 years in closely settled Kent; her parent's orchard only an hour's train ride from L
24 Dec 01 | By MAX PIGGOTT MANY WA sheep farmers even now do not realise how widespread drench resistance is or how high its costs are, a veterinarian said last week. Dr Rob Woodgate is a research veterinarian based at the WA Agriculture Department
24 Dec 01 | GREAT Southern farmers should benefit from the launch of the Great Southern Food and Wine map at Albany. Apart from the extension vineyards of the Frankland, Mt Barker, Denmark and Albany districts the map shows the Great Southern produces an abun
24 Dec 01 | MANAGEMENT techniques used by Eastern States growers to reduce the spread of diseases in chickpea crops could be adopted in WA next year. Department of Agriculture pulse agronomist Martin Harries and Midwest Pulse Growers Association President
24 Dec 01 | By KEN WILSON MOST WA farmers would consider that producing European-type wheat and barley yields is beyond reach in the basically dryland farming environment that characterises most of WA's Wheatbelt. And many farmers who have improved
24 Dec 01 | DIVIDING a family dairy operation just ahead of industry deregulation has galvanised Tutunup farmer Graham Armstrong into an action plan to lift production as well as productivity. Left with 300ha (740ac) after the family divided the property, Gra
24 Dec 01 | New CX860 wins over WA farmers By KEN WILSON FLOATING shoes are not the most common talking point when discussing combine harvesters. That is until you talk with Toodyay farmer Adam Hamersley about his new CX860 New Holland conven
24 Dec 01 | poor season PLANS are already underway by the Department of Agriculture for a series of seminars in 2002 to support farmers affected by the fickle adverse seasonal conditions. The workshop will be regionally driven, focusing on local issues
24 Dec 01 | By CHELSEA CORMELL BUREAUCRACY gone mad is how the state planning department's handling of rural planning proposal SPP11 has been described. Drafting the policy more than 18 months ago, the department has come under strong criticism fro
24 Dec 01 | WITH the stockpile now a memory, wool buyers will be vying for a share of a 20 percent smaller pie than they had access to this time last year. Compounding the stockpile's absence, fresh wool production is at a 50-year low, and falling. Th
24 Dec 01 | WHEN Charles Dickens' Mr Bumble was told by a judge that the law presumed that a wife was under her husband's control, he responded: "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass." A recent strange decision to come from a court of law concerned
24 Dec 01 | TALKS have resumed over a quota restriction scheme planned for 2002 to prevent oversupply of beef to the US market. Disagreement among beef exporters over quota ratios had halted talks on the scheme, but fears the problem would escalate due to
24 Dec 01 | A VERSATILE sheep drench that can also be used to control both lice and flies has been launched to the rural sector of Australia. This revolutionary drench represents a new era of 'smart' sheep health management. Paramax Multi is an easy to
24 Dec 01 | FOR the second time in two weeks buyers travelled from all over the southern half of the state to attend the Elders Young River breeders dispersal sale at Young River Station east of Esperance. The total sold at the sale was $1030 with a gross
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