31 Dec 03 | LAST year, Wyalkatchem was judged the tidiest town in Australia. At a national level the town was competing with large east coast centres such as Cowra, Horsham and Gladstone, with budgets that the Wyalkatchem community could only dream of.
31 Dec 03 | IN the third week of November a beauty contest began in Italy. So what? Don¹t all sorts of beauty contests take place all the time? Miss Australia? Miss America? Miss World? Miss Universe? But this one was unique. ³Miss Digital World² was a
31 Dec 03 | NEW ZEALAND researchers expect to have an Easy Care ewe available for mating this year. The New Zealand breed can be shorn in half the time it takes to shear other wool breeds. With labour shortages, as well as the animal welfare movement in
31 Dec 03 | WHEN I have finished writing this on my modern, but relatively cheap, computer that is so simple to use that even this ex-cocky can manage it, I will email it to its local and interstate destinations and it will arrive within seconds. I will then
31 Dec 03 | WESTY said it would work. Boots offered his property. Brickie got excited and Griffo wanted to bring his chopper. Well, Westy was right. Boots copped a bonus in getting 200ha of wheat off in world record time. Brickie could only marvel at the
31 Dec 03 | GENERALLY, if you want to know how a header is performing, you need look no further than an experienced driver. That was the case at Martindale¹s New Norcia property Newdale recently, where a New Holland CR970 combine harvester was being put t
31 Dec 03 | NEW Zealand farmers have voted resoundingly to continue funding red meat and wool industry-good activities through a compulsory levy and to form a single meat and wool organisation, Meat New Zealand. The concept of a single organisation was s
31 Dec 03 | PORK import volumes to Australia during October and November were the highest on record. Australian Pork Limited (APL) figures showed a pork import volume of 5991t (slaughter weight) for October, which was 10pc higher than the previous top in
31 Dec 03 | THE Agriculture Department warned city residets to be on the look out for skeleton weed after a huge infestation was found in a northern suburb. More than 1000 mature plants spread across 1.5ha were discovered at a disused market garden in Wannero
31 Dec 03 | SOUTH African researchers are turning to WA technology to improve gross margins for the country's wheat growers. Headed by the South African Small Grains Institute a trial program has been set up in the Western Cape region, involving an Ausplo
31 Dec 03 | TRIBUTES poured in last week following the triple fatality car crash on the Coorow-Latham Road which claimed the lives of Todd King, Paul Jefferys and Victoria Cadee. Todd who was the Landmark merchandise manager at Coorow and Paul, who was based
17 Dec 03 | WITH a 2.5t/ha wheat average this year, Quairading farmer, Greg Richards is a happy man. But he is mindful of the areas on his farm that are salt affected. "There is 400ha here that is salt affected and my neighbours have lost, or run the r
17 Dec 03 | Geraldton Zone Manager Mick Daw said harvest was tapering off with more than 90pc of the estimated tonnage for the zone now received into CBH storages. Over 300,000 tonnes of grain had been delivered to Geraldton zone receival points during the p
17 Dec 03 | THE merits of 4WD tractors fitted with tyres compared with those with single tracks in terms of soil compaction continues to be debated worldwide. Soil compaction has been shown in recent years as having serious effects on crop yields. Wh
17 Dec 03 | GRAIN trucks have had trouble keeping up with Kellerberin farmer Kevin Saunders' new CR960 New Holland combine harvester this harvest. "It's a definite step-up from the other ones I've had," he said of the class seven model, which boasts a four sp
17 Dec 03 | WA dairy farmers have been encouraged to picket supermarkets to raise retail milk prices and create better farmgate returns. Vasse MLA Bernie Masters said in the UK dairy farmers had struggled with unsustainable milk prices in a similarly dere
17 Dec 03 | TRITICALE growers are urging greater research into the development of more productive and disease-resistant varieties suitable for WA environments. Currently, the breeding of new triticale varieties is concentrated in NSW and South Australia.
17 Dec 03 | SWATHING barley has been an important means of preventing head loss in Gairdner barley on the south coast this season. But swathing introduces the risk of sand contamination that would send loads to the feed stack. Early survey results fr
17 Dec 03 | NEW research by the Department of Agriculture in 2004 will measure the effect of different feeding systems on the performance of Merino and crossbred lambs. The department is currently calling for expressions of interest from lamb producers with l
17 Dec 03 | THE central test sire evaluation was held for the second consecutive year at the Badgingarra research station and continues to be a valuable opportunity for ram breeders to benchmark their sires. The trial, which is linked to all other central tes
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