Dairy producers across Australia are bracing for a season with little wiggle room for error as input costs continue to soar and supply constraints persist.
Georgia Campion
Prominent agribusiness Craig Mostyn has bought out a Cuballing-based livestock feed manufacturer to secure its pelletised feed supply for an undisclosed amount.
Trade relations between Australia and Indonesia have been strengthened in the latest livestock importer-exporter annual meeting in Jakarta, an industry worth more than $450 million last year.
Thirteen of the State’s biosecurity groups have responded to drastic cuts to the WA wild dog action plan, which resulted in rangeland organisations having their funding slashed by 50 per cent.
Rebecca Nadge
After learning his craft while working for the WA Government Railway Workshops, blacksmith David Moir now captivates crowds of young and old as he works around the forge.
Calls are mounting from Australian dairy farmers for fairer price increases on the supermarket shelf to support sustainable and fresh production.
Fallen Ravensthorpe farmer Mark Mudie has been permanently memorialised for his service to firefighting after he died fighting to save his farm from a bushfire last December.
A WA producer who founded one of Australia’s leading fullblood Wagyu herds has been recognised with an honourary life membership.
After stumbling across French cow breeds in a farming magazine more than two decades ago, Phillip and Suzanne Hall are the proud award-winning owners of WA’s largest Normande herd.
A five-year project has found the optimal combination of forage species to establish a year-round feed supply for sheep and cattle.
According to some international frameworks, wool is up to 33 times worse for the environmental than acrylic, nylon and polyester combined
Farmland prices across the country are expected to increase at a modest rate this year, with the median price per hectare forecast to grow by about 2 per cent.
Agents say WA’s sheep producers are finally being rewarded after a tumultuous few years in the sector, with grower confidence increasing over the past three months and many operators buying back into sheep
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Danielle Marsland
The Meekatharra Rangelands Biosecurity Association has been left reeling after a long-term program to manage the impacts of wild dogs had its funding slashed by half.
Just 2 per cent of Australia’s teachers work in remote schools and after 25 years teaching in a tiny farming community north-east of Geraldton, Gemma Healy-Maver said current incentives are not enough
Two WA agriculture figures have been appointed leaders of the national sheep sustainability framework steering group to navigate the evolving sheep and wool sectors.
With frontline funding protecting Australia’s farms and nature due to expire, the government has been warned the Iran war is “no excuse”.
Nathan Schmidt
A young woman was airlifted to Royal Perth Hospital after a head-on two-vehicle collision on Albany Highway in Williams on Saturday morning.
Hannah Whitehead
The Dongara-based Henderson Shearing team were filling the bales at the O’Brien and Gillam family’s historical Irwin House shearing shed as the wool market lifted 70¢ to close at 1895¢/kg.
Bob Garnant
As riders competed against the clock to guide cattle around the pegs in the annual Williams Campdraft, there were plenty of volunteers working behind the scenes to keep the event running smoothly
It’s mid-morning at the Muchea Livestock Centre store cattle sale and Michael Kaufman has spoken to dozens of people about a simple message: before it all gets too much, talk to a mate.
Brownes workers are gearing up for a second round of strikes after negotiations with the Transport Workers Union turned hostile after last month’s strike over wages and job security
Retired RAAF serviceman, WO Ian Hugh Griffiths (1980-2017), continues his family’s generational contributions through his role as the Gingin Anzac Day Dawn Service co-ordinator.
