30/05/2001 | DURING the 1960s, the creation of farm management clubs was all the go throughout rural WA (and elsewhere to, I guess), with the employment of specialist consultants being the immediate aim. Most of the early ones came from New Zealand, generally
30/05/2001 | THE Federal budget has brought both praise and criticism from WA's farmer lobby groups. Tax cuts and other benefits have been widely welcomed but criticism has come from the Pastoralists and Graziers' Association over arrangements in the Simpl
30/05/2001 | DAVID Kilpatrick has resigned as managing director of Rural Traders Company Limited and intends to pursue his other business interests. The boards of RTC has accepted the resignation and appointed chairman Max Cameron as acting CEO. He will be
30/05/2001 | A VACCINE for bovine respiratory disease and its successor will be discussed at Bunbury on Tuesday, June 5. The occasion is an address to feedlotters at Bunbury's Agriculture WA office by agricultural consultant Des Rinehart who coordinates the fe
30/05/2001 | THE age-old belief that the fine wool Merino can only be run in the high rainfall area of the south West may be a thing of the past, if trials being held in the Goldfields pastoral region are anything to go by. Now in its second year the trial
30/05/2001 | PRIME lamb prices continued to climb at Katanning last week with Boyup Brook farmer Mal Gibbs topping the yarding and setting an $85.50 record price for a pen of 33 White Suffolk Merino cross lambs. The pen created a wave of excitement when We
30/05/2001 | FOR years the humble Merino has been known mainly for its superior wool. But in recent years more and more producers are using its long-held and valuable traits as a meat producer and is now challenging British Breeds and other exotic sheep br
30/05/2001 | AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation Limited is planning a major code of conduct for woolgrowers to rid the industry of physical contamination. Under the new code, the Woolmark Brand would be used as the primary accreditation mark, identifying particip
30/05/2001 | TO April 30 this financial year, the Saudi Arabian market accounted for more than 12pc of Australian mutton exports. But they won't have a bar of our meat if there isn't a vendor declaration testifying that the sheep sold have never been fed anima
30/05/2001 | WHAT role will wool's new national representative body play? According to the Australian Woolgrowers Association, the recent privatisation of wool's research and innovation companies has rendered the role of a full-time wool lobby group irrele
30/05/2001 | ONCE upon a time most young rural people belonged to a young farmer or youth group organisation. These groups were the training grounds to groom the next generation's agri-politicians, the rural and regional leaders of today's farming communit
30/05/2001 | THE hunt is on for the next generation of wool leaders, as wool's national watchdog takes shape. The new body, to officially replace the Wool Council of Australia (WCA) from July 2, will be led by a council of 12 woolgrowers. Each of the si
30/05/2001 | The creation of Telstra Country Wide (TCW) appears to have stemmed the flow of country customers deserting the telecommunications carrier, helping it record a boost in customer numbers in the past few months. Prior to its inception in the midd
30/05/2001 | FOUR years ago, Kim Chance said that if he were to become Minister for Agriculture, his first priority would be to see if the Department of Agriculture could still be salvaged after its vicious "restructure". Well, he is now the Hon Kim Chance MLC
30/05/2001 | TAKE some Angus cattle, marble them up at the Vasse Research Station and what do you get? Well, that's what a whole lot of people involved in this marbling trial at Vasse are waiting to see, not the least of them being research station CEO Fra
30/05/2001 | AGSYSTEMS and WA No-Tillage Farmers Association have formed a relationship to assist farmers to implement profitable and sustainable farming systems. Agsystems is providing a Beeline system as a technology partner for 2001/2002, to assist at the
30/05/2001 | WA Pork Producers' Association (WAPPA) president Liam Flanagan has declared that every effort will be made to work productively with livestock agents to try to ensure that pigs sold at auction, through saleyards at Midland, Narrogin and Merredin, are
30/05/2001 | A HIGH level of interest from speakers wanting to participate in the sixth World Sheep and Wool Congress being hosed in Christchurch from November 11-15, 2001, has resulted in an outstanding program line-up according to Congress organisers. Congre
30/05/2001 | THE 21-year old Wool Council of Australia will be wound-up and replaced with a new, yet-to-be-named organisation in July. The historic decision was achieved at a Wool Council of Australia (WCA) meeting in Canberra yesterday, where delegates vo
30/05/2001 | WESFARMERS Landmark senior agronomist Peter Norris is under no illusions about farmers wanting to use GPS systems as a tool to assist them in making management decisions. "There's got to be a dollar in it," he said. "That's what this project is al
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