15/12/2004 | A RECORD yarding, spirited bidding and quality first-cross heifers were the key ingredients to making last Friday's scorching Elders Boyanup Supreme Springing Heifer Sale a roaring success. When the final hammer fell, after close to five hours of
15/12/2004 | HAYDEN, Delma and Devin Sprigg bowed out of the Merino industry on a strong note when fellow stud breeders paid a $5500 top price for a young sire at the Strathglen West dispersal at Kojonup on Friday. Elders auctioneer Dennis Roberts said it
15/12/2004 | THE Federal Government should set up a transparent audit process to ensure Telstra services throughout Australia are at an acceptable level before the remaining 51pc of public ownership in the company is sold off. According to WA Local Governm
15/12/2004 | WITH the large number of canola varieties on the market and the breakdown of the Sylvestris gene for blackleg resistance, the decision of which canola variety to grow is a daunting one. Several varieties were trialled by the Mingenew-Irwin Gr
15/12/2004 | IN the chaos of the Kukerin fire, farmer Michael Mitchell hurried into his house to get a cold water bottle just as the phone started ringing. He answered it and it was a lady thanking him for his donation to the Kidney Foundation and asking i
15/12/2004 | THE National Competition Council (NCC) report outlining the health of the Australian dairy industry post deregulation was outdated, misleading and bad news for WA dairy farmers, according to WAFarmers dairy section president Tony Pratico. NCC
15/12/2004 | WA fared well among the list company's allocated shares in the new quota to export 27,000t of dairy products to the US during 2005 under the free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States. Challenge Dairy Co-operative, Harvey Fresh, Peters and
15/12/2004 | THE SRS Company is developing a strain of Merino that does not need mulesing, tail docking or crutching. According to SRS managing director Jim Watts six of the 60 studs that have adopted SRS breeding programs have stopped mulesing, five in t
15/12/2004 | THE propaganda war surrounding the Grain Licensing Authority (GLA) has intensified, with the Grain Pool accusing the authority of misleading growers about the benefits of the controversial marketing system. In a brochure distributed to growers
15/12/2004 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association (PGA) has expressed concern about the detail of the State Government's 40-year rolling lease model announced on the weekend. At a PGA pastoral committee meeting in Port Hedland, Planning and Infrastruc
15/12/2004 | PRODUCERS are angry about reports the Great Southern Cattle Saleyards is going to be put up for sale. The yards, barely three years old, are run at an estimated loss of $120,000 per year. The deficit is borne equally between co-owners the C
15/12/2004 | WHAT could have been a moderately severe Australian Plague Locust outbreak has been successfully nipped in the bud by an Agriculture Department aerial chemical control program completed this month. Predictions of a moderate to severe outbreak
15/12/2004 | THE State Government will spend an additional $300,000 on wild dog control, taking the total to $1.9 million for this financial year. Agriculture Minister Kim Chance said the new, additional funding would be available to locally-run Zone Control A
15/12/2004 | EVERY Australian has been raised on the myth of the bush, yet many have forgotten the primitive conditions and the adversity which sculpted the characters who settled our rugged outback frontier. One Man's Story by Colin Price is a novel that give
15/12/2004 | THE Australia dollar's rise over the past two months hit farmers in the hip pocket as commodity prices were dragged down 2.3pc in November on top of the 2pc drop in commodity prices in October. The Westpac NFF Rural Commodity Index showed prices f
15/12/2004 | THE cattle yards became a classroom in Kojonup last week when a number of livestock agents undertook further cattle training in preparation for the upcoming bull selling season. Organised by Elders Breeding Services manager Kim McDougall the field
15/12/2004 | MOORA Chamber of Commerce president Richard Murray reckons Telstra's got a lot of work to do to just get the mobile phone network up to scratch. Mr Murray, who uses his CDMA mobile phone constantly in his trucking business, said services around Mo
15/12/2004 | THERE¹S one thing you learn very quickly in Esperance at harvest time. The odds are that it will rain so getting the crop off quickly is an absolute focus. For Wittenoom Hills, Esperance farmers John and Ann Hull, who crop 2800ha (7000ac),
15/12/2004 | THE ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances characterises Australian farmers. Young married couple Jim and Bev Gilbert are a good example - in 1985 they left Perth, where they were domiciled, to return to the Gilbert family farm at
8/12/2004 | WHILE the increase in up and back spraying, particularly with big rigs, is seen as more beneficial and easier for operators, it has produced problems. According to Narembeen boomspray manufacturer Max Hebbermann, rigid tandem axle sprayers are pro
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