28 Jan 04 | RURAL groups have praised the Federal Government's extension of its succesful Roads to Recovery program and pressured the State Government to ensure its effectiveness. Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson announced last week that an extra $1.2
28 Jan 04 | IT was a modest Lew Smit, Koojan Hills, Kojonup, who accepted the 2003 Strathtay trophy at the Angus Society's AGM last Friday. Prior to the announcement, Angus Society of WA president Greg Petricevich explained that finding a winner each year
28 Jan 04 | A REVIEW of the National Animal Welfare Strategy (NAWS) is currently under way to clarify Australia's position on animal welfare at home and abroad. National Farmers Federation quarantine and animal health task force chairman Keith Adams said
28 Jan 04 | THE Water and Rivers Commission (WRC) is using "rules of thumb" to determine criteria for a Water Corporation application to pump 45 gigalitres of water a year from the South West Yarragadee aquifer to Perth's integrated water supply system. T
28 Jan 04 | WHILE an Australian delegation discusses a free trade agreement in Washington this week, WAFarmers has warned Australian farmers to take heed of the problems that Canada faced under such a regime. WAFarmers grains spokesman Peter Wahlsten
28 Jan 04 | RECORDS tumbled at Landmark's Blue Ribbon Female sale, Mt Barker, last Tuesday. Its record price of $1600 for PTIC Angus heifers was booked twice. Overall, the sale of the 1465 females, ranging from unmated heifers to sixth calvers, averaged a
28 Jan 04 | THE Sydney lawyer who helped set up Harvey Water has been recruited to the drive for a WA dairy single desk. WAFarmers dairy section president Tony Pratico said Jenni Mattila was helping develop a marketing model that would be useful for the e
28 Jan 04 | THE WA Liberal Party will review the recently introduced environmental legislation if it won government at the next state election. Shadow agriculture minister Paul Omodei said the controversial Environmental Protection Amendment Bill 2002, wh
28 Jan 04 | THE recent discovery of false meat labelling in Korea would not damage the Australian beef industry, according to ating Federal Agriculture Minister Ian McFarlane. His statement was in response to shadow Agriculture Minister Gavan O'Connor's r
28 Jan 04 | THE Pastoralists and Growers Association Grains has rejected Mr Wahlsten's claims that a free trade agreement between the US and Canada had devastated Canadian graingrowers. PGA grains spokesman Leon Bradley said the Canadian Wheat Board would be
28 Jan 04 | NUTRITION problems - as a result of annual ryegrass toxicity and a bumper 2003 cropping season - are causing concern for some WA feedlot prime lamb producers and abattoirs. In the southern wheatbelt regions, the level of ARGT is so high that l
28 Jan 04 | CHANGES at WA's biggest pig abattoir Linley Valley Pork (LVP) will improve its service to export markets. Agriculture Department meat scientist Darryl D'Souza has been appointed as a technical manager at the facility, which is run by processor
28 Jan 04 | AN informal survey will be carried out among growers in southern regions to try and find out what caused mould damage to wheat crops. The survey, being prepared by Albany-based Agriculture Department agronomists Ron McTaggart and Wal Anderson, wil
28 Jan 04 | A MEETING scheduled this week between the two shires affected by the Tenterden fire may clear the way for legal action to be taken against Western Power. Hostility towards the utility has been exacerbated by its managing director Stephen van d
22 Jan 04 | A WORLD record price of 180,000c/kg greasy was paid for a bale of 12.2 micron wool sold by Landmark-Jackson of Geelong in Melbourne last week. The bale was presented by Horsham-based company The Wool Factory, and sold by tender to Associated Wool
22 Jan 04 | FAVOURABLE trial results last season are translating into sales of Grain Biotech Australia's three new wheat varieties, Sapphire, Ruby and Shenton. Orders received so far for Sapphire and Ruby exceed supplies of available seed, but there are still
22 Jan 04 | TWO of Australia's prominent agricultural livestock players will combine forces this week to release a report on annual ryegrass toxicity issues, in particular the highly debated vaccine. A meeting at Geelong, Victoria, last month saw Australian W
22 Jan 04 | WA'S Ovine Johne's Disease-free status has received a blow after another case of OJD was detected in the state's Upper Great Southern region, the second in two months. The first instance of OJD in the area was detected by abattoir surveillance
22 Jan 04 | WA WOOL industry representatives have rejected a proposal to build a network of super shearing sheds around the nation to provide savings for farmers and a safe and comfortable work environment for shearers. The proposal, following hot on the
22 Jan 04 | EASTERN states wool prices hit a nine-month high of 827c/kg clean last week while WA growers missed out on the action after no sales were held locally. But local brokers expect prices to rise in WA this week, following the 36c/kg gain in the e
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