31 Dec 10 | BIDGEMIA station owners Lachlan and Jane McTaggart said the Gascoyne River is back within its banks where it ought to be, but it might take up to six months before they are able to live in their home again.
31 Dec 10 | WITH a sigh of relief WA growers are finishing off the last of their feed crops and cleaning down their headers for another year.
31 Dec 10 | THE ramp stretches about three metres from the back of the truck to the ground. Some sheep take their first few steps on to it tentatively, most scamper down as quickly as possible. All behave the same way at the halfway mark - leaping from the metal ramp on to Victorian soil for the first time.
31 Dec 10 | A developing tropical low is edging its way across the country's northwest, with a cyclone watch already in place for parts of Western Australia.
31 Dec 10 | IT'S been a record-breaking year for the red meat industry and while season-wise it's one many would prefer to forget, nobody complained when the prices started rising.
30 Dec 10 | WA research has shown that grain growers are sowing seed heavily contaminated by weed seeds.
30 Dec 10 | INSTITUTIONAL agriculture has been given a fair bit of attention in recent years according to Anthony Abraham.
30 Dec 10 | FLOOD waters in the Gascoyne area have subsided but it will be a while before things return to normal.
30 Dec 10 | WA pastoralists have had a bumpy ride this year, adjusting to the live cattle weight restrictions imposed by Indonesia and partnered with one of the worst droughts on record.
30 Dec 10 | IT WAS an exciting, brash and colourful time in a complex and boring industry. Even more fun than last year's fight over the national broadband network (NBN).
29 Dec 10 | The Department of Agriculture and Food has urged WA horse and other livestock owners to be aware of the risk of annual ryegrass toxicity (ARGT).
29 Dec 10 | THE doctor crisis in rural WA has hit an all-time high as shires throughout the State continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to attract a doctor.
29 Dec 10 | STAYING safe has paid off for two farming families, who each received a $200 shopping voucher for displaying outstanding safety awareness while delivering grain to the Merredin CBH receival point this harvest.
29 Dec 10 | Following a difficult year for grain growers battling crop disease pathogens, pulse pathologists from across Australia have gathered in Toowoomba to exchange information.
29 Dec 10 | The Australian dollar has continued to show strength over the Christmas break, maintaining parity-plus levels with its US counterpart and trading at a record against the European common currency.
28 Dec 10 | Generations of West Australians will reap the benefits of the State Government’s upgrades to health services and facilities undertaken in rural WA in 2010.
28 Dec 10 | A recent Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) board meeting in Western Australia discussed the implementation of a national strategy for grains research, development and extension (R,D&E).
28 Dec 10 | South Australia’s Agriculture Minister Michael O’Brien has announced that last week the one millionth sheep for 2010 passed through the Ceduna Roadblock.
28 Dec 10 | THERE are now segregations for canola downgraded by sprouting and low test weights caused by weather damage and at least one marketer is buying canola with a higher percentage of sprouted grain.
28 Dec 10 | Christmas day brought temperatures in the low to mid forties across Western Australia and for many areas the heat will stick around for the week, raising concerns for bushfires.
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