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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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King Rat

Some people run screaming into the night if they run into a rat, but Heath Verhey is seeing rodents in a whole new light – he has started farming them. You might have a few rats in your backyard, from time to time, but Heath has thousands and...

22 hours ago
Livestock

The need for correct feed is real

WHEN sourcing supplementary feed for your livestock, there are two key issues to consider before purchasing a seemingly cheaper feed: feed testing and commodity declarations. You need to know exactly what you are getting. This will ensure that the...

22 hours ago
North West Farmer

MLA says meat is safe

THE growing global controversy surrounding feed additive Bovaer has prompted Meat & Livestock Australia managing director Michael Crowley to publicly step into the debate. Growing consumer backlash here and overseas, fuelled by social media, has...

16 Dec 2024
North West Farmer

Nanotechnology’s big play in flystrike war

It’s summer in a fortnight – and it’s been hot in plenty of places already. And for sheep breeders and woolgrowers across northwest Victoria that means one thing – flystrike. Particularly if we end up with another wet spell through December...

25 Nov 2024
North West Farmer

Why Wyndham Station is no carbon copy of a pipedream

People are pretty pragmatic out in the pastoral country. It’s big country which can have big problems – but also big rewards. Where no day, season or year is ever the same. Right now at Wyndham Station, on the anabranch, north of Wentworth, it’s...

20 Nov 2024
Farming and Environment

Stubbles an important forage

WITH headers coming out of sheds across the Mallee in the next few weeks there are some big numbers involved which tend to escape people. Such as stubbles, and what they are truly worth to mixed operations and graziers. Across Australi...

22 Oct 2024
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Livestock

Kerang group dominates prime lamb competition

THE annual Swan Hill Show Prime Lamb Hoof & Hook competition has unveiled one championship success story, but the final results will not be available until next week. Kerang’s D.I. Gitsham grabbed the prizes in the Heavy Prime and...

20 Oct 2024
Livestock

Broad-ribbon bonanza for Tamaleuca

OUYEN-based Poll Merino stud Tamaleuca is on a roll. Coming off the back of a rock-solid annual on-property ram sale in August, it has now swept through the showring at the Adelaide Royal and come home with the reserve grand champion Poll Merino...

19 Oct 2024
Livestock

Get rams ready

WITH the ram selling season now in full swing across the Mallee and northwest Victoria and Elders’ Swan Hill livestock specialist Matt Rowlands explains how you can make sure your rams are in tip top condition ready for joining. The success of any...

19 Oct 2024
Livestock

Sheep farmers asked for input

WOOL growers are being urged to participate in a process seeking to help set the levy rate for the fiber during the coming three years. Participation in WoolPoll - a voluntary vote of wool levy payers who have paid at least $100 in levies over the...

19 Oct 2024
Livestock

Wean calves early to reduce feed requirements

AGRICULTURE Victoria livestock development officer Nick Linden believes that as a result of low feed availability, producers with autumn calving cows may be considering weaning calves earlier than normal. Mr Linden says early weaning is an immediate...

06 Sep 2024
Livestock

Ouyen stud ram sale bucks trend

OUYEN-based poll merino stud Tamaleuca defied tough industry conditions to record a total clearance at its annual on-property ram sale on Friday. With 60 rams offered and sold to a high of $3400 and average of $1599, Tamaleuca’s Danni...

06 Sep 2024
Farming and Environment

This weeks sheep sale at Ouyen Livestock Exchange

THIS week’s sheep sale at Ouyen Livestock Exchange defied a softening national market to see almost prices fully firm to stronger across the board. Meat and Livestock Australia market analysts report the mutton indicator dipping 11 per cent to...

31 Aug 2024
Livestock

Ram sales out of the gate

THE northern Victorian ram-selling season is under way and one of the first cabs off the rank was Kedleston Park Poll Merino. Its annual on-property sale launched with the privately negotiated sale of the outstanding KP 23.0059 just before the...

31 Aug 2024
Livestock

Wily Fox knows his sheep

Self-confessed “hobby sheep producer” Dylan Fox has surprised the industry professionals by taking out the strong Merino fleece class at the 2024 Victorian Agricultural Society’s state finals. Held during the prestigious annual Australian Sheep...

20 Aug 2024
North West Farmer

Tamaleuca gears up for on-property ram sale

TAMALEUCA Poll Merinos will stage its annual on-property ram sale on Friday August 30. It is the showcase event for the Ouyen stud, which also sells at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, the Adelaide Royal and the Hamilton ram sale, as...

19 Aug 2024
Livestock

Lamb prices keep rising

LAMB prices have surged across the country recently, driven by export demand and a protein deficit in the US, and the latest Ouyen sale has reflected that demand. Its offering of 10,712 head – with 7595 lambs – saw both heavy and trade lambs...

10 Aug 2024