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.
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.
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.
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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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.
Machine
more machine
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.
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.
Back Paddock
more back paddock
Les Kossatz shows Hard Slide
OH NO, not another case for some bleating from animal rights activists about the maltreatment of sheep.
