18 Dec 02 | AWB International has staunchly defended its multi-million dollar service agreement with AWB Limited after complaints from WA growers that the system was out of balance. Under the agreement, signed last year, AWBI had to pay AWB Ltd 1.5pc of t
18 Dec 02 | RESEARCH on immunocastration of pigs has shown benefits for the animal as well as the end consumer. Department of Agriculture research officer Darryl D'Souza said immunological castration was increasingly being used in Australia, with Western Aust
18 Dec 02 | IT was a scorcher of a sale at Boyanup last Friday, when the Elders Supreme Springing heifer sale grossed just under a spectacular $1.8 million making it the biggest sale ever for the Elders team. The Elders South-West team yarded an impressiv
18 Dec 02 | CANOLA prices are falling like a brick. Cheap soybean imports are the main reason for the canola slide - from the climax of $570/t before harvest down to $493/t last week at Port Adelaide. Oilseed crushers in NSW and Victoria have begun importing
18 Dec 02 | WANNEROO market gardener Arthur Trandos is happy with three basic requirements in the tractors he drives. "They've got to be reliable, have good vision and quiet cabs," he said. And those three parameters fit the new Case-IH CX series trac
18 Dec 02 | Big Lexions popular at Esperance By KEN WILSON THE two most important things you need when you're a harvesting contractor are reliable machines and capacity. And Esperance contractor Greg Harris reckons he has those in spades with hi
18 Dec 02 | THE final wool sales of 2002 have been anything but smooth this week, with a major buyer boycotting several broker's catalogues at auction. But the company at the centre of the dispute, Itochu, claims it is brokers who are being unreasonable a
18 Dec 02 | INDEPENDENT WA research company Agritech and the WA College of Agriculture, Cunderdin, have jointly established a research and technology agricentre based at the college. It is envisaged the Agricentre will become a vehicle for agriculture inn
18 Dec 02 | BELLEVUE manufacturer DE Engineers has increased its rotary grain cleaning range to cater for the spectrum of farm sizes. One of the most popular picks this harvest has been the "no fuss" two barrel cleaner which can process grain around 20t/hr ta
18 Dec 02 | THE new Case IH EZ-Guide lightbar is a tool to help save valuable input and management resources. The guidance system keeps farm equipment, like tractors and sprayers, precisely on course during field preparation, chemical and fertilizer applicati
18 Dec 02 | WORKSAFE has warned farmers to maintain farm machinery after the death of a producer last week in a tractor accident. The Nyabing farmer was attempting to jump-start his tractor using jumper leads from another farm vehicle. It is understood the tr
18 Dec 02 | THE Howard Government's backing of the US-led campaign against terrorism and pressure on Iraq to fully declare all weapons of mass destruction has been the key reason Iraq has cut its Australian wheat purchases in half. Iraq has lopped 44pc of
18 Dec 02 | NATIONAL Foods had given WA suppliers more time to sign summer milk contracts after the formation of a collective bargaining group. The WA Dairy Farmers Collective Bargaining Group was formed a week before NFL contracts were due to be signed on De
18 Dec 02 | KEEPING pace with technology is obviously one of the aims of the new Agricentre at Cunderdin Agricultural College. So it is no surprise it has purchased a Danish-made Haldrup self-propelled plot harvester (see pictured above). The four-wheel dr
18 Dec 02 | LIVE export sheep prices could come under pressure next year after a livestock supply agreement was signed between Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal and the president of Sudan. The agreement allowed the Saudi Arabian Prince and business
18 Dec 02 | SHARING machines has become part of the lifestyle for Katanning farmers Peter Kerin and Ian Tagliarferri. The pair have adjoining properties totalling nearly 2800ha (7000ac) and first started sharing with a boomsprayer three years ago. This
18 Dec 02 | RETIRED stock agent Jon Boyne has been part of WA's sheep industry for 53 years and remembers only one year when sheep prices were close to current levels. It was in 1962 when he was based in Moora. "I took a car-load of clients down to a sheep
18 Dec 02 | IT takes a lot to get a 400kg Gelbvieh bull to do as he's told. That's when the WA College of Agriculture - Morawa, calls on its secret weapon, Jack. Jack is a four-year-old donkey, specifically trained to lead yearling bulls. Jack was train
18 Dec 02 | VISITORS and guests received a theatrical welcome the opening of The Woolstation of Williams from its owners Lawrence and Heather Rose at last week. The Woolstation will be home to their Shearing Shed Theatre Company and will incorporate a the
18 Dec 02 | THE yellow ear-tag for identification of cattle is likely to disappear in the EU. Instead about 300 million European cows, sheep and goats will receive a chip with their identity information. Dairy and Beef magazine reports farmers will have the
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