27/02/2008 | WA FARMERS will need to place orders for new machinery by next month to secure their requirements for the 2009 season in the face of a world-wide supply shortage of agricultural machinery. This warning came from Farm Machinery Dealers Association
27/02/2008 | WA wool producers will have a unique opportunity to view one of the latest innovations in wool harvesting technologies when the Hecton Highlander shearing sys-tem is demonstrated at Wagin Woolorama for the first time next month. Unlike convention
19/02/2008 | A SHOW of force among WA’s wool industry organisations has supported retaining the Spearwood-based wool selling centre. Fourteen organisations — inclu-ding Primaries of WA, West Coast Wools, Stawool Brokers, Dyson Jones and Wool Agency — relea-se
6/02/2008 | THE annual Monterey Murray Grey and Angus sale is renowned for the exceptional offering of quality bulls put forward to buyers, making it one of the State’s most prestigious fixtures on the sale calendar. This year was no exception. An outstand
6/02/2008 | HARVEY Beef has bought the business assets of meat processing facility Fremantle City Processors, doubling its carcase boning capacity. Operating as the Harvey Industries Processing Centre (HIPC), the Fremantle facility will continue to run as a
6/02/2008 | FORMER Pastoralists and Graziers Association president and Elders chairman Barry Court has nominated to become the next president of the WA Liberal Party and is confident his lay party duties will help the party win at the next State election due in
6/02/2008 | AUSTRALIAN Customs has supported a request from WA chemical manufacturer Nufarm for an anti-dumping duty on imports of 2,4-D acid from China to be continued. The decision was slammed by WA farm chemical company 4Farmers chairman Phil Patter-son,
6/02/2008 | MEAT and Livestock Australia’s 2008 Sheep Industry Projections have underestimated the decline in lamb production this year, according to Q Lamb Alliance chief executive officer Reg Crabb. The projections were released in Brisbane earlier this wee
6/02/2008 | TELSTRA will monitor the call qualities of its mobile phones as it irons out problems with the Next-G network. Roving teams in the bush will be used to detect and tally dropouts during calls on Next-G handsets across the nation. Telstra also pl
6/02/2008 | CRUSADING by some groups to end the live export trade took another twist this week when the RSPCA claimed the industry was not operating to world best practice. The claim attacks a two-year-old report by Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) which co
6/02/2008 | NOT only is Perth Australia’s most unaffordable city when it comes to housing — Perth shoppers are also paying the highest prices in Australia for lamb and bacon. In its latest national look at the average retail prices of selected items in the ei