24/04/2001 | AGRICULTURE Western Australia will next week release the final weight gain and feed efficiency data for 116 bulls from various breeds currently in the trial at their annual feed efficiency trial field day. The data collected from the trial current
24/04/2001 | PUREBRED Murray Grey heifers, suited to breeding, reached a top of 222.5 cents per kilogram at an Elders sale in Midland last week. This meant an average sale price of $702 per head on the top priced pen of cattle - a result which showed confidenc
24/04/2001 | TWELVE Charolais bulls from four well known WA studs have been involved in this year's Vasse Feed Efficiency Trials run by Agwest and will be sold at the Vasse field day on May, 2. Frank Lambert's Token stud has had six bulls running in the trial
24/04/2001 | TROUBLED machinery dealership chain Agro Holdings Limited (AHL), now up for sale, could have been saved, according to a major shareholder. Perth financier London Partners, which was the original underwriter of the AHL float on the Australian S
24/04/2001 | ELDERS Bunbury branch manager Doug Slater said the prices being paid for cattle in WA at the moment has had a huge impact on numbers of cattle in this state and particularly in the south west. "Other than a few grain fed cattle there are hardly an
24/04/2001 | WHILE farmers around the state sit waiting for rain they will be preparing themselves to get straight into seeding as soon as the season breaks. With that in mind Farmsafe WA is urging farmers to spare just a little bit of thinking time towards th
24/04/2001 | ALL farm vehicles should be isolated from current assessment methods used to calculate third party insurance. That's the pith of the argument from the WA Farmers Federation, which has voiced its protest on the increase in third party insurance
24/04/2001 | LANCE Stubberfield of Elders Bunbury has won the South West Fertiliser Person of the Year Award. In announcing the winner of the award in Perth last week, CSBP futurefarm regional manager South WestPaul Omedei said the trophy would be known as the
24/04/2001 | BREED variety spiced up the Autumn Dairy Fair with Guernsey, Brown Swiss and Jersey heifers shown in addition to the popular black and white Holstein breed, at Brunswick last week. The judge, Andrew Cunningham, Waterloo, was impressed with the
24/04/2001 | A LIMOUSIN heifer beat off 86 other entrants to be sashed supreme exhibit in the led beef heifer category at this year's Cattle Bonanaza held at Brunswick on Saturday. In what was described by judge Rob Hutchinson, Taminick, Victoria, as an ex
24/04/2001 | ELDERS has announced the addition of two new faces to its leading agronomy team. University of WA honours graduate Shannon Hunt joined the company in early March and has been based in Carnamah, serving the surrounding Three Springs, Perenjori and
24/04/2001 | DEPUTY Premier Eric Ripper has announced a technical task force to examine ways to speed up the processing of mining, exploration and land title applications in areas where Native Title might prevail. The task force would consider options to reduce t
24/04/2001 | THE National Farmers Federation has announced plans to hold a second Young Farmers Forum later this year, to improve policy input from young people in agriculture while building their leadership skills at the same time. The forum will be held
24/04/2001 | THE scope for co-operation between government and Native Title claimants is one issue that will be considered as part of a review into Native Title negotiating principles. The state government last week launched an expert review of native titl
24/04/2001 | ROAD train changes proposed by Transport Minister Alannah McTiernan could cost rural and remote WA more than $10 million a year in extra freight and road maintenance, result in more country job losses, and increase the risk of accidents on metropolit
24/04/2001 | IT may seem unusual but the Howard Park label was established for 10 years before the owners planted their first grape vine. It is equally unconventional that the Howard Park cellars and processing facility stands with not a vine in sight.
24/04/2001 | ONLY the very best yearling bulls from WA's leading beef cattle studs are entered Agricultural WA's feed conversion trial held at the Vasse Research Station near Busselton. The results will be announced at the conclusion of the trial, which will t
24/04/2001 | SINCE the inception of the Feed Conversion Efficiency Trials at the Vasse Research Station, South Devon cattle have performed exceptionally well. In the 1991 Vasse Trial pair of steers competition, South Devons had the top feed conversion (kilogra
24/04/2001 | Special report by TRAVIS KING HIGH demand for quality store and grainfed beef cattle over the past six months has seen beef prices lift to all-time highs. So good are prices, in fact, that many WA beef producers quit most of their cattl
24/04/2001 | WHILE the Wheatbelt has been touted as the area for WA's beef industry to expand into, rural consultant Alan Peggs said there were a number of factors producers needed to consider before breeding cattle in the Wheatbelt. "The likely places for the