28 Sep 06 | Mr Edwards said the recent vote rigging scandal with Meat and Livestock Australia¹s (MLA) NLIS poll should make woolgrowers treat WoolPoll 2006 with extreme caution. Farm Weekly asked Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran, WoolPoll voting ad
28 Sep 06 | According to the judges, the presentation of all exhibits was outstanding given the harsh growing season, particularly in latter months, and were all to be congratulated. They said the Misty Hills exhibit was a stylish superfine fleece showing abo
28 Sep 06 | The net effect of a wholesale market should see more realistic values placed on trades in the future and remove uncertainty from the industry. Trade values always have been hit and miss based on the market atmosphere (good year, bad year) and a fa
28 Sep 06 | AWB Ltd is under increasing pressure to release details of a plan that will provide growers with enough confidence to deliver their wheat into the 2006 national wheat pool. AWB has until October 1 - the official starting date for the 2006 national
28 Sep 06 | The single Noongar applica-tion¹s boundaries start on the coast north of Jurien Bay, to north of Moora, then south-east to the southern coast between Bremer Bay and Esperance. This envelops the Perth metropolitan area and townships including Bunbu
28 Sep 06 | The marginal fall in averages across the board by $46 on last year and a selling shed chock-a-block full of large-bodied, heavy-cutting quality woolled rams averaging 20.6 micron and 98.5pc comfort factor proved testimony to the principals' continued
28 Sep 06 | Kevin has entered every invention and innovation competition at the expo since the event started 24 years ago and has either won or been placed runner-up almost every year. Everything he presents in the competitions provides a commonsense solution
28 Sep 06 | THE German Wool Federation (GWF) has warned Australia must increase its efforts in wool marketing or lose the industry forever. GWF president Gunther Beirer said the GWF believed strongly that Australian woolgrowers should be fully aware of what w
28 Sep 06 | Until they came into place, producers could not be prosecuted for failing to comply with NLIS. Agriculture Department animal biosecurity director Ashley Mercy said WA had the most effective sheep and goat tracing system in Australia. Dr Mercy
28 Sep 06 | The option was one of three provided in the form released to 11,000 sheep producers by the Agriculture Department¹s Foot-rot Eradication Campaign Advisory Committee (FECAC) regarding the management of footrot. WAFarmers meat section president Mik
28 Sep 06 | Ms Evans said stock management had been a major challenge this year with feed shortages, lice treatment breakdowns and now blowflies. "Reports have been received from throughout the northern, eastern and southern agricultural areas with strike occ
28 Sep 06 | The big issue is increasing duty of care compliance across almost all services provided by local government and the tie up of staff resources to not only maintain records but also to receive proper training in accordance with government legislation.
28 Sep 06 | Nationals Wagin MLA Terry Waldron said he was surprised by Mr Chance¹s turnaround, revealed exclusively in Farm Weekly two weeks ago, after previously indicating the government would support the yards¹ relocation. ³It was remarkable to hear the M
28 Sep 06 | WorkSafe identified several problems in the pig selling facilities including wet and slippery wooden platforms, holes in the concrete and deteriorating structural columns and beams. Poor traffic management was also a major problem that needed to b
28 Sep 06 | Nufab principal Peter Nunn said fabrication was an important skill on the farm where a lot of work was done to fit particular tasks. "It also is important that we promote fabrication as a career for local manufacturers," he said. Peter's comme
15 Sep 06 | WOOL will be revamped in the US this week as part of The Woolmark Company's (TWC) test marketing project (TMP) to capture a new generation of wool consumers. A new line of Australian extrafine Merino woollen garments has been revealed in the U
15 Sep 06 | WOOL exporters have meet with the House of Representatives Economics Committee to discuss the future of declining wool scouring and processing in Australia. Scoured wool exports from Australia have fallen 6.4pc over the past nine seasons and t
15 Sep 06 | THE Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has warned that dog hair in Merino wool could jeopardise growers' clips. Dog hair contamination may seem trivial when compared to exotic sheep breeds and foreign object contamination but AWEX is taking dogs
15 Sep 06 | THE State Government has committed more capital expenditure for programs to further develop and market the Harvey Beef brand. The main project seeking funding under the new expenditure is a rendering facility for abattoir waste. Agriculture
15 Sep 06 | BEEF producers could be required to satisfy new animal welfare standards under the Livestock Production Assurance (LPA1) scheme in a bid to maintain Australia's premier export markets. International markets are increasingly demanding meat prod
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