GRAZING varieties were under the spotlight at an oats demonstration site field day held on Clay and Peter Smith’s Nobby property Hurston Downs last Tuesday.
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WITH talk of shooting cattle in the north, Warwick region producers are faring better than their northern and western counterparts, due to a number of factors.
GLENGALLAN cattleman Barry Turner has lived a lifetime on the black soil flood plain and he reckons you’d be “hard pushed to find sweeter country anywhere”.
THEY are chefs, marketing experts, student architects and everything in between, and for the past six months have been honorary residents of the Southern Downs.
UPDATE: Five-year-old Patrick O’Sullivan began breathing under his own steam in hospital overnight, but his family maintains a bedside vigil.
Good to hear the little fella is breathing on his own again . Hopefully the rest of the recovery continues as rapidly aswell.
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AUSTRALIAN grain markets are riding higher – with sorghum and barley bids at close to A$300/MT NTP Brisbane and Newcastle at their best levels since 2007/08.
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AUSVEG has launched a 1800-AGRONOMIST hotline for vegetable growers.
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IT IS understandable why Wyreema’s Kath and Barry Pearce are so fond of clydesdales.
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THE State Government will cut red tape to ensure a major CQ stock route remains open to assist drought-affected cattle producers from the state’s north west.
A TOTAL of 8100 head of cattle were penned at Roma’s Store Sale on Tuesday.
THE much larger yarding contained mainly young cattle and only a small sample of heavy grown steers and bullocks and a relatively small selection of cows.
TESTING of Bovine Johne’s disease (BJD) samples from Bajool stud Rockley Brahman’s have indicated it is a strain never found before in Australia.
NAMBUCCA Valley Landcare has just completed a study and control of willows in the Nambucca Shire funded by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority.
COFFS Harbour Regional Landcare has added another feather to their cap: the local weeds identification booklet.
CENTRAL Queensland was well represented at the inaugural Reef Rescue Awards, with two awards won by local farmers.
A WWF report identified nearly 40,000 hectares of bushland could be at risk in and around Toowoomba if the State Government relaxes tree clearing laws.
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