31/12/2003 | 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.
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
31/12/2003 | 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
17/12/2003 | NINE engineering projects are to receive salinity funding worth $2 million in WA. The National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality funding will provide for several engineering projects under the Engineering Evaluation Initiative, a $4m
17/12/2003 | 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
17/12/2003 | 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
17/12/2003 | 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
17/12/2003 | CHRISTMAS shopping should be a breeze for Dumbleyung folk this year. Three local women have produced a 530 page pictorial book, Dumbleyung and Districts Pictorial, which gives a fabulous overview of the district's history. Local women, Bet
17/12/2003 | 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.
17/12/2003 | 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
17/12/2003 | MORE than 150 Great Southern farmers flocked to Napier last Wednesday to show their concern for the erosion of their property rights. The meeting organised by the Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) was chaired by its president Barry C
17/12/2003 | Export capretto DELIVERIES have been finalised for this season and the future of this market looks uncertain with numbers well down on past years. We are looking at a new marketing system, which may be of a benefit to those growers who have su
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