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Dry season drives early harvest finish

Twin-tier live-ex vessels remain afloat

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Cropping

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Agchem regrouping after decade of depressed sales growth

A sustained run of lower commodity prices has subdued farm input demand and challenged crop protection sector achievements

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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GrainGrowers develops sustainability plan

Genetic gain and improvements in farming systems, as well as soil improvements over the past 10 years has meant Western Australian farmers have still been able to get their crops up, even in a below-average rainfall season.

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Sheep

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Lamb supply and prices down

The Stock Take: Mecardo's Angus Brown analyses the lamb market.

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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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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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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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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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'The money is in protein'

Victorian Merino breeder Ricky Luhrs says the consistent money for sheep producers is in protein, rather than exclusive wool production.

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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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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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Demand shift adding plenty of value to mutton

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

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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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'The money is in protein'

Victorian Merino breeder Ricky Luhrs says the consistent money for sheep producers is in protein, rather than exclusive wool production.

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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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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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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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Old-fashioned with European flavour

Another week, another record at Edenhope

Joyces hit WAMMCO sweet spot

Lamb price drives land price

Cattle

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Resurgence in demand from Vietnam for cattle

The Stock Take: Mecardo's Matt Dalgleish crunches the numbers on live cattle exports.

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Producer reaction to damning footage under fire

Is beef under-estimating activist influence?

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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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Property

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Investors eye off sustainable ag assets

Investment in sustainable agriculture looks to be on the rise as WA Super recently launched the WA Impact Fund, which will use impact investing in different spaces, with one being agriculture.

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Commercial property in the heart of Moora

This is a very workable commercial property in the busy regional centre of Moora.

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Small South West farm a cut above the rest

This property is zoned special rural and has plans for 11 lots for future subdivision to be approved,

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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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37 photos of hope from across the country

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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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WA pastoralists seek urgent financial support

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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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