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Perth butchers find quality at Woolorama
19 Mar 10 | BACK to purchase the finest cuts of meat at Wagin Woolorama trade cattle sale were Meat the Butcher owners Glen and Louise Fuchsbichler, when they brought the heavyweight champion and mediumweight grand champion winning steers for the second consecutive year.
Rockdale stud wins its third carcase trophy
19 Mar 10 | FOR the third time in the past four years, the WAMMCO State Carcase Competition trophy has been won by the Rockdale Prime SAMM stud, Dumbleyung, whose line of 104 ewe and wether lambs scored the top of 2714 points.
19 Mar 10 | THE WA Lot Feeders' Association will take its biannual Better Beef show to the WA College of Agriculture, Cunderdin, next month, with the two day event exploring optimal pathways to market for the grainfed carcase.
WA processor warns of unsustainable industry
18 Mar 10 | WA needs to increase its lambing percentages and get more lambs on the ground if WAMMCO is going to survive the tough times ahead, according to its chief executive officer Coll MacRury.   | CommentsComments (2)
WA Santa genetics to receive a boost
16 Mar 10 | NEW Santa Gertrudis genetics are on their way to WA following the purchase of a 17-month-old sire from South Australia recently.
Schultes Meat Tavern brings home the bacon
15 Mar 10 | WINNERS in the inaugural Bacon Week Awards For Excellence were announced today by Australian Pork Limited.  | Producer calls for united beef ...
15 Mar 10 | THE Shire of Capel is welcoming the prospect of retaining saleyards in the region, as it looks set to be the favoured area for the relocation of the Boyanup saleyards. Shire president
Floods force stud sale reshuffle
13 Mar 10 | BOONAH stud Brahman breeder Chris McCarthy is a young man in the industry going places - but not this week.   | Wanted: 8000 steersVisit Stock JournalJR uses creative accounting to ...Visit Queensland Country Life
Moora Merino ewes sell to $97 top price
13 Mar 10 | A GOOD turn out of buyers, both in person at Moora and ringing in on mobile phones, gathered to take advantage of the quality sheep that were available at a dispersal sale offered by local farmers, RL & AF Joyce, with two lines of mated ewes being knocked down by Landmark auctioneer Grant Lupton for $97.
13 Mar 10 | FIVE breeds, 54 bulls, one Knutsford selling complex and 38 keen bidders all came together at the Kojonup Invitation Bull sale last Wednesday, resulting in a very respectable gross of $113,250.
13 Mar 10 | THE 22nd annual multi-breed bull sale at Gingin last Thursday saw buyers scramble to get their hands on a selection of new Angus genetics ensuring strong competition and an impressive top price of $9500 posted twice on the day.
12 Mar 10 | THE opening of the Muchea Saleyards has been delayed, with the WA Meat Industry Authority (WAMIA) facility now due to open just after Easter.
Merino ewes sell to $113
12 Mar 10 | IT was a very strong result throughout for the 12 lines of ewes and wethers offered by Lex and Diana Hardie and sons at their clearing sale on-property, west of Narrogin last week.
Sheep are back
11 Mar 10 | FOUR generations of hard work breeding sheep is finally starting to pay off for the Stratford family, Wyalkatchem.
Producer calls for united beef industry
11 Mar 10 | IT was not the news that cattle producers wanted to hear, but few were surprised when Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) projected another year of subdued prices and lacklustre export demand for the industry.  | CommentsComments (1)
R&D winner helps keep tabs on cattle
09 Mar 10 | A PROJECT to track the whereabouts of cattle is among five winners selected by Telstra from an R&D Idol competition it launched about six months ago, and will now receive access to its platforms, infrastructure and advice in order to build its operation.  | CommentsComments (1) | Middle East demanding wider ...Hiscock to head Beef Council
China to become major pork importer
08 Mar 10 | CHINA will become a major importer of pork, according to Dr Dermot Hayes, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University.
Industry shuns footrot control program
06 Mar 10 | THE debate on whether to shift the footrot management program from control to eradicate is back in the spotlight again after industry representatives of the Footrot Management Committee met with the Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) last week.   | Middle East demanding wider ...Animals Australia attacks Egypt ...
05 Mar 10 | LIVE export company Wellard has defended the shipping of cattle to Egypt after Animals Australia expressed its outrage at the move.  | CommentsComments (9)
Middle East demanding wider range of Aussie red meat cuts: MLA
03 Mar 10 | Middle East demand for Australian red meat was reinforced last week with a record contingent of Australian red meat exporters participating in the region’s largest food tradeshow – Gulfood.   | US beef cattle expansion not ...Merino tops sheep profit test
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