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Old abattoir part of the tourist hook

Sweet time for Albany's Strawberry Farm

CBH delivers pass seven million tonnes

Cropping

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Dry season drives early harvest finish

With harvest having come to a close, the Bairstow and McDougall families of Arizona Farms, Lake Grace, are pleased with the outcome of this season's crop.

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Wheat futures reach seven-year high

CBOT wheat futures rallied at the end of last week, jumping nearly $A8/t.

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Good and bad news out of India on pulse front

There are some signs India may lower its pulse tariffs, but the flip side is tighter phytosanitary requirements.

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Australia's driest spring according to BOM

Australia has smashed a number of unwanted high temperature and low rainfall records this spring.

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Celebrating national soil health and sustainability R&D on World Soil Day

Check out local gains in soil health as global spotlight falls below-ground this week.

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Domestic grain users weigh up freight options

Domestic grain users in northern Australia are assessing where to get their supplies from this year - and closest isn't always cheapest.

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Frost does not take the gloss off results in southern Mallee

There has been a welcome change in fortune for farmers in the southern Mallee district of Quambatook this season.

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Farmers play the waiting game on new crop

The trade is unwilling to own large volumes of grain and farmers are unwilling sellers at current values, leading to a stalemate.

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Wheat futures reach seven-year high

CBOT wheat futures rallied at the end of last week, jumping nearly $A8/t.

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Australia's driest spring according to BOM

Australia has smashed a number of unwanted high temperature and low rainfall records this spring.

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Frost does not take the gloss off results in southern Mallee

There has been a welcome change in fortune for farmers in the southern Mallee district of Quambatook this season.

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SA set to remain a GM no-grow zone

A last minute disallowance motion has stopped the SA government passing regulations that wuld have allowed GM food crops to be grown.

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Drought not ready to let go - yet

The drought does not look set to let up this year, but a breakdown in the IOD positive event early next year means better hope next year.

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Celebrating national soil health and sustainability R&D on World Soil Day

Check out local gains in soil health as global spotlight falls below-ground this week.

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Domestic grain users weigh up freight options

Domestic grain users in northern Australia are assessing where to get their supplies from this year - and closest isn't always cheapest.

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Farmers play the waiting game on new crop

The trade is unwilling to own large volumes of grain and farmers are unwilling sellers at current values, leading to a stalemate.

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Unique fert campaign grows on farmers

Farmers may recognise the granules, but just in case you missed them, the eye-catching images in Summit Fertilizers' Partners in Growth advertising campaign are made from its own product - Summit fertilisers.

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Sheep

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Benchmarking cements Merino focus

WA woolgrower Andrew Scanlon has done the math and says his Merino gross margin beats that of meat sheep breeds.

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Merino sheep handlers get a dressing down from stud boss

Malcolm Kater, chairman of Egelabra stud, Warren, says too many sheep handlers at Merino shows look "daggy".

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Sheep Producers looking for new CEO after departure of Graham Smith

The inaugural CEO of Sheep Producers Australia, Graham Smith, has left the company.

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Exclusion fences boost processor confidence

Queensland's last small stock export processor is hoping western Queensland graziers are fair dinkum about using their exclusion fences to boost sheep numbers when the season recovers.

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Merino sheep handlers get a dressing down from stud boss

Malcolm Kater, chairman of Egelabra stud, Warren, says too many sheep handlers at Merino shows look "daggy".

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Demand shift adding plenty of value to mutton

The Stock Take: Mecardo's Angus Brown writes about mutton values.

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Old-fashioned with European flavour

Personalised service and high-quality meat products have been the recipe for success for traditional artisan butchers Torre & Mordini, Duncraig.

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Aussie producers leading the way in on-farm welfare practices despite unfair criticism

Aussie sheep farmers leading the world in animal welfare practices in the face of criticism from animal rights groups.

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Trade lamb indicator dips towards 700c on back of big early summer yardings

Big yardings early this week have put pressure on both sheep and lambs prices.

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Old-fashioned with European flavour

Personalised service and high-quality meat products have been the recipe for success for traditional artisan butchers Torre & Mordini, Duncraig.

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Another week, another record at Edenhope

It was another record breaking week at the Edenhope saleyards, with the highest price ever, $174, paid for first cross wether lambs.

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Exclusion fences boost processor confidence

Queensland's last small stock export processor is hoping western Queensland graziers are fair dinkum about using their exclusion fences to boost sheep numbers when the season recovers.

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Aussie producers leading the way in on-farm welfare practices despite unfair criticism

Aussie sheep farmers leading the world in animal welfare practices in the face of criticism from animal rights groups.

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Sheep Producers looking for new CEO after departure of Graham Smith

The inaugural CEO of Sheep Producers Australia, Graham Smith, has left the company.

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Trade lamb indicator dips towards 700c on back of big early summer yardings

Big yardings early this week have put pressure on both sheep and lambs prices.

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Another week, another record at Edenhope

It was another record breaking week at the Edenhope saleyards, with the highest price ever, $174, paid for first cross wether lambs.

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Joyces hit WAMMCO sweet spot

Putting their money on prime lamb, good farmland and family continues to pay handsome dividends for Kukerin/Tarin Rock farmers Colin and Ronni Joyce.

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Joyces hit WAMMCO sweet spot

Lamb price drives land price

A favourable wether pattern

What's driving the store sheep boom?

Cattle

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Anti live-ex activists take the fight on-farm

Claims 'standard practices' have been taken out of context.

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Beef industry reacts with horror to latest covert footage

Latest animal abuse footage taken on cattle stations.

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Red meat moves to embed adoption in research spends

No more throwing science findings up in the air and hoping someone catches it.

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Beef industry business training available: MLA

The MLA Business Edge courses will run be run at a number of locations in 2020.

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Angus Australia 2020 leadership program open for applications

Angus Australia is calling for application to its leadership program for 2020.

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Producers investigate South American grazing

Leucaena learnings from global counterparts.

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Phalaris grass set to get DNA boost

A research team has found the genetic reference for phalaris grass which they hope will help improve its performance as a pasture crop.

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Property

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Industry weighs in on foreign investment

Debate on foreign investment of Australian farmland is ignited every time an overseas buyer purchases agricultural land, particularly if it is a property of scale or for a substantial price.

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Make the most of a coastal lifestyle

This 5.8 hectare property that has all the elements you could want in a coastal lifestyle property.

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Award-winning vineyard known for flavour

The Zarephath vineyard is on the eastern end of the Porongurup Ranges in the Great Southern wine region.

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Productive property a beautiful landscape

In the heart of the Wheatbelt regional centre of Northam, this home will delight you.

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Photos and Video

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37 photos of hope from across the country

Readers have shared their photos of hope with us for the chance to win $5000 cash

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Hort Innovation holds AGM in Sydney | PHOTOS

Folk from throughout the horticulture landscape attended the 2019 Hort Innovation AGM.

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Irrigators get result from "Can the Plan" protest

Organisers say Minister committed to push investigation into changing inflows in Southern Basin.

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See the Peterson Farm Bros take on Ozzy Osbourne

The Peterson Farm Brothers are back with another parody tune - Crazy Grain.

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Irrigators demand Littleproud "Can the Plan"

Irrigators take protest against Basin Plan to Canberra.

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Weather

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Australia's driest spring according to BOM

Australia has smashed a number of unwanted high temperature and low rainfall records this spring.

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Drought not ready to let go - yet

The drought does not look set to let up this year, but a breakdown in the IOD positive event early next year means better hope next year.

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Monsoon running late

The Bureau of Meteorology predicts a dry December

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Time for adult conversation on climate change

A climate scientist has said that one cool spring or a hot spell 100 years are not proof climate change is not happening.

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