Cattle

Prime start to New Year

NEW year prime markets opened strongly with many sales quoted as up 2-10c/kg on pre-Christmas rates.

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Noel's keeping an eye on costs

EVEN without the freight costs of northern buyers, local restockers such as Noel Reeves were still having to look hard at their buy-in figures at Hamilton, in Victoria, on Monday.

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Pakenham yarding shines

THE market at Pakenham in Victoria was a big improvement in the number of cattle penned and the quality of the offering.

Report: 20090105_PakenhamCattleReport.pdf


Warrnambool vealer price fall

UNCERTAINTY in the domestic vealer market took the edge off prices at Warrnambool's first-cross heifer sale today. 

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Wheat prices higher

GLOBAL wheat prices have risen to their highest level in three months.

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NZ push on Aussie traceability

NEW Zealand's sheep industry "will look like the laggard for rural traceability" if it doesn't follow Australia's lead on livestock identification.

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Using GPS is on the level

MENTION GPS guidance in agricultural and horticultural circles and arrow straight furrows and hands-free steering spring to mind.


End excesses of MIS past

MANY farmers would argue the thousands of naive lawyers, miners and small business owners who poured money into managed investment schemes deserve little sympathy.

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North goes quiet on cattle

MARKET uncertainty and today's higher transport costs appear to have wiped out the "grass fever" bidding once evident from northern buyers.

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Back Paddock

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Les Kossatz shows Hard Slide

OH NO, not another case for some bleating from animal rights activists about the maltreatment of sheep.

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