Farm Weekly
Monday, December 11, 2023
Initial candidates unveiled for grain handler director elections
Gareth Rowe, Walkaway, is seeking re-election as a director of CBH.
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Full yarding for final store sale of 2023
Willarty Angus, Coolup, will offer four rising two-year-old Angus bulls at the Elders final store cattle sale of the year at Boyanup on Friday, December 15, commencing at 9am.
By Kyah Peeti & Kane Chatfield
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The 24 stars of Aussie agriculture to watch in 2024
Ed Gannon
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The 24 stars of Aussie agriculture to watch in 2024
Bushfires threatening farming communities
Andrea Hayward
Bushfires are threatening lives, farms and homes in WA's northern wheatbelt. (Aaron Bunch/AAP PHOTOS)
Summer sessions are back for the January school holidays
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GRDC grower relations managers Jo Wheeler, Luke Dawson (centre) and Berin Gibbons will host the National Grower Network (NGN) 'Summer Sesh' forums in Busselton, Bremer Bay and Dunsborough in January.

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Property
FarmBuy Real Estate
Little piece of paradise in Victoria's North-East sells for $1.45m
Chris McLennan
At almost $20,000 per acre, this lifestyle block near Wangaratta sold to expecations. Pictures from Nutrien Harcourts
Farm land sales continued strongly and unabated this spring
Mel Williams & Andrew Marshall
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Argyle Cattle Company, which is part of the Kimberley cattle portfolio, has invested heavily in irrigated sorghum production under the ownership of the Archstone Investment Group.

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Initial candidates unveiled for grain handler director elections
Gareth Rowe, Walkaway, is seeking re-election as a director of CBH.
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Summer sessions are back for the January school holidays
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GRDC grower relations managers Jo Wheeler, Luke Dawson (centre) and Berin Gibbons will host the National Grower Network (NGN) 'Summer Sesh' forums in Busselton, Bremer Bay and Dunsborough in January.
'Exceptional' cropping land north of Ballarat passed in at auction
Chris McLennan
'Exceptional' cropping land north of Ballarat passed in at auction
Machinery
Cosgrove family impressed with John Deere in different seasons
After saving an estimated 200 hours, Allanooka farmer Daniel Winter (right) said he wouldnt hesitate in recommending the John Deere X9 1100 Combine Harvester to other farmers. He is with son Jack.
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Telstra's 3G shutdown - what you need to know
Paula Thompson
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There will be no 3g network operating in Australia from June 30, 2024.
WA product in demand over east
Perri Polson
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Sales manager Martin Buggins (left) and director David Jackson with the truck which hauled 12 Commander Ag-Quip V-Express Sheep Handlers across the country.
Sheep & Goats
Middle East eyes alternatives to Australian live sheep trade
KLTT executive director Hussam O. Sarhan and National Farmers Federation president David Jochinke at the Trans Emirates Livestock Trading facility in Dubai.
Victoria Nugent
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Flood of cheap Aussie sheepmeat blamed for global trade upset
Chris McLennan
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Sheep prices have bounced back after widespread rains across eastern Australia. Here at Wagga Wagga this week lamb prices were up to $60 a head dearer.
One-year-old ewes top Maternal Ewe Sale with two different lines
Kyah Peeti
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The Bradford family, Hillcroft Farms UltraWhite stud, Popanyinning, saw two of its ewe lines reach a sale high of $218, both selling to a Mt Lawley account. The first line was made up of 186, 12-13mo ewes that had an average bodyweight of 66.2 kilograms and the second line comprised 187 one-year-old ewes weighing an average of 67.7kg.
Agribusiness
Gala Sydney gathering for Syngenta Growth Awards - photos
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Donna Schreurs, Middle Tarwin, in Victorias Gippsland, with Anna Sutton, Syngenta, Sydney, Chad Harper and 2020 growth awards winner, Alex Thomas, both from Nairn, South Australia at the 2023 Syngenta Growth Awards in Sydney.
Andrew Marshall
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GrainCorp assures growers on grain security following flood
Gregor Heard
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Water inundated GrainCorp's bunkers at Deniliquin last week. Photo courtesy of GrainCorp.
Mortgage holders get a welcome pre-Christmas reprieve
Adrian Rollins
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Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock. Picture by Elesa Kurtz
Politics
NFF signs up to global climate alliance
The new group represents farmers' associations across Australia, New Zealand and South America. Picture by Shutterstock.
Dakota Tait
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Supermarket inquiry given the green light
Dakota Tait
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The motion was unopposed in the Senate this week. Picture by Shutterstock.
Flood of cheap Aussie sheepmeat blamed for global trade upset
Chris McLennan
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Sheep prices have bounced back after widespread rains across eastern Australia. Here at Wagga Wagga this week lamb prices were up to $60 a head dearer.
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The Samsung Freestyle Portable Projector makes the cinematic experience mobile, indoors, outdoors or even the outback. Picture Samsung
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UBCO electric bikes reduce costs and carbon emissions on farm
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Ag pioneers recognised in this year's Syngenta Growth Awards
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The winners of the 2023 Syngenta Growth Awards night. Darren Best (not pictured) won second judges' choice. Picture supplied
Five reasons why the Zown app is a must-have for tweens and teens
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West Australian genetics make ABV history
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The Kitchen family's Carenda Holsteins has dominated the December release of Australian Breeding Values, including the top BPI Holstein, Carneda Jeronimo Vida. Picture supplied
Certainty and systems underpin business growth for Victorian dairy farm
Managing risk: Dairy farmer Jade Clymo with his son Fynn and their new Entegra barn. Picture: Supplied
Studstock
First gen seedstock producer awarded $10,000 scholarship
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Winner of the 2023 scholarship Jake Phillips, Naracoorte, South Australia (right), with ARCBA independent chair Thomas George. Picture by Kelly Butterworth.
Sale to cap off Braford NSW 50th anniversary
Matt Sherrington
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The 50th anniversary celebrations will also include the National Braford AGM, to be held at West Tamworth. Picture supplied
Special Features
Full yarding for final store sale of 2023
By Kyah Peeti & Kane Chatfield
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Willarty Angus, Coolup, will offer four rising two-year-old Angus bulls at the Elders final store cattle sale of the year at Boyanup on Friday, December 15, commencing at 9am.
700 top-quality beef breeders on offer
By Kyah Peeti
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As part of a genuine herd dispersal, the Estate of TS McIntosh, Youngs Siding, will offer 37 Lincoln Red rising first calvers in the Ray Norman Memorial Breeders Sale to be held on Tuesday, December 12 at the Mt Barker saleyards. In addition to the heifers, the entity will also offer 23 rising second calvers and 28 rising third and fourth calvers in the sale. All cattle have been mated to Tone Bridge Lincoln Red bulls.