Satellite data helping predict and detect calving
CENTRAL Queensland University’s precision livestock management research team has moved one step closer to predicting and detect calving events in extensive grazing herds using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
Demand for top genetics sees another record fall
CLOVEN Hills Composite sheep stud, Nareen celebrated another highly successful sale last month with ram lambs selling to another stud record top of $4800.
Ready for wine harvest season
BY all accounts, 2022 is going to be another good year for wine lovers. At least, where Western Victorian grapes are concerned.
Grown steers the highlight
IT was another successful store sale at Mortlake on Thursday, February 17, with 4839 cattle yarded.
South-west food and fibre boost
A REPORT by Food and Fibre Great South Coast has revealed that south-west Victoria’s food and fibre sector could add $40 million worth of value to the local economy by increasing its agricultural water usage by 10 per cent.
Dangerous noxious
AGRICULTURE Victoria has launched an advertising campaign targeting the online sale of water hyacinth and salvinia, two of Victoria’s highest priority aquatic noxious weeds.
Job cuts in agriculture
AS if rural and Regional Victorians needed further evidence that the State Government has abandoned them.
HRLX breaks record
VICTORIAN producers, staff and agents at the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange created an Australian record – with 59,487 electronic National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) tags scanned on sheep sold at the sale on December 15, 2021.
Farmer’s expensive rams shot dead
A HOMERTON farmer is at a loss to know why three valuable rams at his sheep property were shot dead recently.
Tahara counting its blessings
TAHARA residents are counting their blessings after emergency services stopped an out-of-control grassfire that burned more than 380 hectares at the weekend.
New agricultural business for Heywood CBD
IT’S the end of an era but the start of a new adventure for one South West agriculture business as its founder retires before a new partnership is formed with a bricks and mortar business in the heart of Heywood.
Changes to grain trails program
GRAINS Research and Development Corporation’s National Variety Trials (NVT) program is undergoing a makeover, with the aim of ensuring the long-term, future availability of its product for Australian grain growers and their advisers.
Merino to host Lions auction
The annual Merino Digby Lions Club Auction is on again at the Merino Recreation Reserve on Sunday, March 16.
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