23/02/2001 | AUB Green did not demur when his 9000 odd acres in Walkaway was referred to as his hobby farm, but after taking off his 58th harvest last season, he is now ready to have another try at slowing down. Selling his major farming property at Kalann
23/02/2001 | THE 2001 Wagin Young Rural Ambassador is Melanie Davey, a 24 year old customer service officer with Wesfarmers Federation Insurance in Wagin. Through her family Melanie has had a long association with Woolorama and although she completed years 11
23/02/2001 | NATIONAL wheat exporter AWB Ltd is planning an August date for its public listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. After working to fulfil ASX listing requirements over the past 18 months, AWB Ltd now has six months to prepare a prospectus to
23/02/2001 | A HOST of new studs have bolstered the Corriedale showing in recent years at Woolorama and the unofficial patriarch of the breed Arthur Pederick expects there will be another strong showing this year. Arthur says most of the Corriedale studs in WA
23/02/2001 | BOER goat breeders look forward to Woolorama as an annual chance to report to farmers on the emerging opportunities for commercial goat meat production. This year at Woolorama Boer they are hopeful they can promote the success of their efforts
23/02/2001 | WA agricultural chemicals manufacturer Davison Industries is bidding to increase its cotton/sugar/horticulture and broadacre business in eastern Australia with three important new appointments to complement its expanded product range. Davison Indu
23/02/2001 | PERMITS are no longer required to keep domestic and commercial rabbit breeds. The Agriculture Protection Board (APB) has changed the classification of domestic pet and commercial rabbits to enable them to be kept by households without restrictions
23/02/2001 | JUDGING has finished and the winner of the 2001 Wool Agency Woolorama scholarship is a closely guarded secret until it is announced at the Wagin Woolorama on Friday, March 9 at 1pm. It is the second time the award has been presented and scholarshi
23/02/2001 | THE Federal Opposition has vowed to boost dairy assistance payments to WA, NSW and Queensland's dairying regions while shaving payments to Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. The move is designed to help dairy farmers most affected by dai
23/02/2001 | FOR many WA grain growers, lupins are the grain they love to hate. Lupins would curtly dismissed from the farm program today if another more profitable legume replacement could be found to work in with a cereal rotation. But farmers have been u
23/02/2001 | WHEN a fleet-footed football player gives up the game to exhibit Merino sheep then he is serious. Loxley studmaster Courtney Sutherland trains and plays all winter but when the show season starts football comes second. "The year I left sch
23/02/2001 | A FARMING era lasting 43 years ended when Wesfarmers Dalgety held a clearing sale last week for the fifth generation Snooke family, of Meckering. Grace and Darryl Snooke sold sheep, produce, sundries, vintage items, plant and machinery to bi
23/02/2001 | A road-building gang arrived on the job, just out of Midland, and discovered they had forgotten to take their shovels. One of them used his mobile phone to contact their foreman and tell him of their predicament. "Calm down, stop worrying, don'
23/02/2001 | WA'S fastest shearers will go in as the under-dogs when WA attempts to wrest the Heiniger 100 shearing record from NSW at Woolorama in March. The task will be anything but easy amid allegations of rule-bending leveled at the NSW shearers who shave
23/02/2001 | THE sale of 90 F1 SAMM ewes for $70 and a line of five SAMM stud rams for $425 was a highlight of a strong clearing sale at Toodyay last week. Elders' Northam auctioneer Gerald Wetherall was faced with strong demand for the the SAMMs from loca
23/02/2001 | AS A graingrower should you opt for liquid fertilisers to replace conventional top-dressing? If early Agriculture WA trials are any indication, the answer is a resounding yes, with the usual caution that you should hold your own trials to esta
23/02/2001 | NATIONAL dog food company Uncle Ben's has been a long-term sponsor of the Woolorama sheep dog trials but there are local links behind the glossy Pal Pedigree Meaty Bites label. The relationship between the big manufacturer and local company Gr
23/02/2001 | WHERE there's an upside, always look for the downside. That's the case with the surge towards summer cropping and the loads of upside in terms of water use, summer grazing benefit and silage. But two AgWA researchers warned delegates at last we
23/02/2001 | WOOLORAMA will be a welcome respite from carting water for Roy and Melinda Addis, Ashbourne stud, Nyabing. With more than 40 dry dams they have been kept busy carting water, spending a full day every third day to make hour-long round trips to
23/02/2001 | WETHER lambs sold to a peak of $34 to top the Wesfarmers Dagety clearing sale for AR & JR Green, Walkwaay. The line of 210 wether lambs sold to Emmanual Exports for $34, a price that was matched when J Wasley, Mingenew, paid $34 for 202 yellow tag
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