31/05/2007 | The find comes at a time when no surveillance is being done for the disease in WA. Random abattoir surveillance was carried out in the past on 1000 lines of sheep. Proposed changes to the national approach for managing OJD are set to be imple
31/05/2007 | The water-focussed committee will maintain a tight focus on research co-ordination in the area of precipitation enhancement, otherwise known as cloud seeding. Many weather experts doubt the effectiveness of cloud seeding on the basis it is near im
31/05/2007 | TWO long-standing members of WA¹s Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA) laboratory will retire at the end of June. AWTA Fremantle senior manager Paul Walsh and sampling operations manager Colin Biddiscombe collectively clocked up more than half
31/05/2007 | MERINOS that do not need to be surgically mulesed have existed for more than five years in WA and stud breeders and commercial growers are already snapping up their genetics. For more than two decades, Kojonup woolgrower Robert O¹Halloran has work
31/05/2007 | SENIOR executives from the Coles Group inspected WA abattoirs last week in the first positive step towards getting WA beef and lamb back onto the supermarket chain¹s shelves. The executives visited a number of abattoirs over three days and met wit
31/05/2007 | Recent rains could result in eastern states farmers keeping stock rather than de-stocking, which could further increase the need for hay in the short term. But patchy rain in WA and a slow start to the season in the Mid-West has meant hay supplies
31/05/2007 | CENTRAL WA Wheatbelt farmers won the lottery from an old-fashioned South-West frontal system that delivered breaking rain on Sunday. While most other parts of the state gained a virtual teasing from Mother Nature, areas such as Goomalling, Wongan
31/05/2007 | The Department¹s new premises are scheduled for construction during the next four years. WA Agriculture Minister Kim Chance announced last week that $126 million had been allocated to merge the Department¹s metropolitan research, policy and admini
31/05/2007 | AWB management will be quarantined from the farmer-based working group that has nine months to establish a new grower-owned and controlled single desk marketing company for wheat exports. The Federal Government amended wheat marketing legislation
31/05/2007 | Total number of sheep and lambs in Australia in 2005 was 101,125,000 which dropped significantly to 91.9 million as of June 30, 2006. WA Live Exporters Association chairman John Edwards said the situation had severely affected the supply of older,
31/05/2007 | PASTORALISTS and Graziers Association (PGA) Western Graingrowers chairman Leon Bradley has promised to continue waging his long running battle against AWB, in the wake of last week¹s government decision to extend the status quo on wheat export market
31/05/2007 | Even the State¹s DLS architects, Member for Kalgoorlie Matt Birney and Member for Ballajura John D¹Orazio, could not agree on the original workings of the Bill they created. Mr Birney centred his parliamentary attack last week on WA National Party
31/05/2007 | ³Is the minister making a decision for truckies, agents and Government and not the producers?² Mr Llewellyn said. ³I don¹t care how many agents and truckies you have. ³You won¹t have a saleyard if you can¹t get producers¹ sheep and we have a lo
31/05/2007 | Adding to the revolution in alternative harvesting techniques is the Elders initiative to sell Bioclip lambs wool still in the nets. Merino lamb¹s fleece wool less than 55mm in length and still in Bioclip nets has already been sent to China for pr
31/05/2007 | Australian Meat Industry Council WA executive director Merv Darcy said it was another indication both governments had no interest in regional WA. He said the saga had been ongoing since July 4 last year when initial talks were held with Agricultur
31/05/2007 | WA processors must find new labour sources after they rejected the latest agreement negotiated by State and Federal Governments. Harvey Beef chief executive officer Scott Henderson said the labour shortage was the biggest challenge the industry no
31/05/2007 | WAFARMERS general president Trevor De Landgrafft hopes the farm group¹s firm stance on the wheat single desk will attract more members than it might lose. Mr De Landgrafft made the statement in the wake of revelations that diminishing membership n
31/05/2007 | The eastern market indicator (EMI) broke through the 1000c/kg mark at the close of sales last week and wool stockpiles have been diminished as brokers and growers cash in on the healthy returns. The EMI was sitting at 1008c/kg clean last Friday an
24/05/2007 | The find comes at a time when no surveillance is being done for the disease in WA. Random abattoir surveillance was carried out in the past on 1000 lines of sheep. Proposed changes to the national approach for managing OJD are set to be imple
24/05/2007 | Australian Meat Industry Council WA executive director Merv Darcy said it was another indication both governments had no interest in regional WA. He said the saga had been ongoing since July 4 last year when initial talks were held with Agricultur
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