31 Jan 10 | Photos from Thursday's Carpenter Beef "Paddock to plate - via your office" promotion in Perth.
30 Jan 10 | MAJOR Chinese earthmoving manufacturer Shandong Lingong Machinery Company (SDLG) has appointed CJD Equipment Pty Ltd exclusive distributor for SDLG products in Australia and Papua New Guinea, effective from March this year.
30 Jan 10 | AS Peter Maisey watched the last of his Calingiri wheat fill up the bins on his farm last week, the Dowerin farmer must have been wishing it was his beloved durum wheat that was being taken off instead.
30 Jan 10 | THE Agriculture and Food Department has awarded the licence for the production and manufacture of Twist Fungus to Becker Underwood, an international developer of bio-agronomic and specialty products.
30 Jan 10 | WHAT is happening in the Australian Merino and wool industry? And why have flock numbers declined?
These were some of the questions constantly asked of World Federation of Merino Breeders president Glen Keamy when he visited New Zealand and South America recently.
29 Jan 10 | IT HAS recently been announced that Australia now holds the world record for the strongest wind gust ever recorded on the Earth's surface.
29 Jan 10 | A LITTLE known ancient seed has emerged as the most lucrative crop option for Stage 2 of the State and Federal Government's $415 million investment in the Ord River Irrigation Development project, now strongly supported by a major national supply partnership.
29 Jan 10 | WA’S biggest beef processor is alive and kicking and well poised to take advantage of any recovery in the beef markets.
29 Jan 10 | DURING a brief tour of Australia recently, Japanese flour millers delivered a strong message about the noodle wheat varieties they want WA growers to produce.
29 Jan 10 | McINTOSH Distribution will showcase two 2010 model Miller self-propelled boomsprayers at a series of Ride and Drive events in WA and SA next month.
29 Jan 10 | A NSW processor has called a meeting next month to discuss the dismal state of the beef industry, similar to the producer-driven meeting held in WA in November 2007.
29 Jan 10 | WA's most unwanted newcomer is inching closer to taking over its first town, with two adult cane toads discovered near Kununurra.
29 Jan 10 | WA dairy breeders Lou, Maria, Leon and Kerry Giglia, Ponderosa Holstein stud, Dardanup, sold the second top price female at the Semex Spectacular Holstein sale during the International Dairy Week in Victoria last week, with their red and white Holstein heifer Ponderosa SS Jodie-Imp-ET-R fetching $33,000.
28 Jan 10 | AUSTRALIAN beef exporters are hoping to get a large chunk of the new European Union beef export quota, announced last week, which opens the door for duty-free global access to a new specialty market for high quality grain-fed beef up to 20,000 tonnes.
28 Jan 10 | WESTERN Meat Packers has reportedly begun buying and processing cattle again.
28 Jan 10 | Perth has equalled its worst dry spell in 35 years, and with no rain in sight, history could be in the making.
28 Jan 10 | MEAT and Livestock Australia's (MLA's) release of a new LAMBPLAN Maternal Index is just the start of several exciting new genetic developments in Australian Sheep Breeding Values to be released over 2010.
28 Jan 10 | THERE'S a moody cow on the horizon, but don't be alarmed - this is one you're going to want to keep an eye on for all the right reasons.
28 Jan 10 | MEETINGS between the State Government and the Red Meat Action Group (RMAG) have continued in the New Year with a view to fast tracking discussions around the Beef Precinct concept.
28 Jan 10 | MECKERING woolgrower and Australian Merino Society president Robert Beard believes wool prices have to average at least 900c/kg greasy to stem the tide of woolgrowers leaving the industry.