19/11/2008 | Locals purchasing Australian sheep in Bahrain during the Eid Al Adha festival will be told "no truck, no sheep" under an initiative being implemented by Bahrain Livestock Company.
| Trial targets better use of ... | Animals Australia launches ...
17/11/2008 | Breeding new perennial grasses varieties to boost productivity in the drier parts of southern Australia is the focus of a Future Farm Industries CRC workshop being held this week.
| Mt Gambier weaner steers up to ... | New data shows profitability of ...
14/11/2008 | The World Bank says Asian economic growth is creating an extra two million middle class consumers a month in the world’s developing countries. MLA chairman Don Heatley sees these as a potential extra two million ’first time’ consumers for animal protein suppliers.
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Comments (2) | Canada trying to regain beef ... | Muchea saleyards finally get ...
13/11/2008 | In a narrow victory, just 55pc of levy payers voted to increase the combined salary cap for Meat and Livestock Australia directors from $500,000 to $750,000.
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13/11/2008 | In a world first, Australian researchers at the CSIRO have used stem cells to develop surrogate rams and bulls - animals that produce the viable semen of another individual.
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Comments (2) | 2020 foresight with new sheep ... | Kate Joseph to lead Sheepmeat ... | SLIDESHOW: How stem cells will change ...
12/11/2008 | A young West Australian scientist has taken out this year’s prestigious International Meat Secretariat Prize for Meat Science and Technology.
| US beef exports are on the rise | $60,000 tops Brahman Classic sale
12/11/2008 | CONSTRUCTION of the Muchea Livestock Centre is finally set to begin after the State Government signed off on a $54.5 million funding package this week.
10/11/2008 | AgForce Cattle president Greg Brown has been elected president of the beef industry's peak body, the Cattle Council of Australia, at its annual general meeting in Orange today.
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9/11/2008 | After falling sharply in recent weeks, national cattle and lamb price indicators stabilised this week, Meat and Livestock Australia reports.
6/11/2008 | Days may be dark for many commodities but the future of the live sheep trade appears bright, in spite of the latest animal rights campaign to stop the trade.
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Comments (4) | Young lamb yardings spike later ... | Crossbred ewes to $128 at ...
6/11/2008 | The real hurt from the global financial crisis might just be starting to hit agribusiness, with reports beef and lamb exports are starting to pile up at some international ports because importers can’t afford to pay.
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3/11/2008 | A new vaccine being developed in the United States could diminish the threat of the deadly foot and mouth disease, which decimated the British livestock herd in 2001.
| Young cattle prices drop sharply | 24pc cut in numbers can't stop ...
29/10/2008 | Moves by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries to develop a new genetically modified pasture variety have been bagged as a "waste of public money" by anti-GM campaigners.
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Comments (6) | Financial crisis hits ag research | Toughen up GM food labelling, ...
29/10/2008 | PRIME lamb prices averaged $1-$2 a head easier at the major saleyards this week.
| Tough conditions on ... | New forage legume performs at Roma
29/10/2008 | Meat and Livestock Australia is countering the latest advertising campaign by Animals Australia, taking its own full page advertisements in a rural newspapers in support of the live export trade.
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Comments (24) | Females to 270c/kg at Wodonga | New forage legume performs at Roma
28/10/2008 | In its latest assault on the live export industry, Animals Australia is paying for a full-page 'open letter' to be published in three rural newspapers this week appealing to sheep producers not to send their animals to the Middle East.
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Comments (37) | Females to 270c/kg at Wodonga | APL and Pork CRC take Research ...
28/10/2008 | A non-bloating high quality winter legume is showing great growth potential in trials near Roma.
| SAMM Merino-cross ewes to $122 ... | $120,000 bull tops PB Fenech ...
24/10/2008 | National average prices for all descriptions of livestock fell this week as a seasonal flush in southern supply coincided with weaker export buying, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.
| Angus breeders take steps to ... | Dry brings both sheep and ...
24/10/2008 | To celebrate the third birthday of WormBoss as a valuable worm management tool, 12 lucky producers from across the country will win prizes, each valued at $1000.
| Rams to $3600 at BL Show and Sale | Angus breeders take steps to ...
24/10/2008 | A LIVE export dispute, which delayed the sale of about 160,000 sheep and a 'couple of thousand' dairy cows, has been resolved with Kuwaiti shipping company Livestock Transport and Trading winning their case against the Federal Government's Australian Marine Safety Authority.