30 Nov 01 | WHILE most of us work under the assumption that we aren't going to live forever, most of us do not actually put a time frame on our own life expectancy or consider how much money we realistically need to have at retirement to see us through to th
22 Nov 01 | WHILE most of us work under the assumption that we aren't going to live forever, most of us do not actually put a time frame on our own life expectancy or consider how much money we realistically need to have at retirement to see us through to th
15 Nov 01 | MOVE over Tamworth. A small Gulf country community is poised to become the country music capital of at least north west Queensland. The organisers of the Crodon Poddy Dodgers country music festival are celebrating another win following
15 Nov 01 | AN excellent opportunity to purchase a going concern property with prime position and tenure will present itself when Mount Garnet district holding Barwidgi is offered at auction later this month. Situated just 80 kilometres west of Mount Garnet a
15 Nov 01 | A NEW saleyards record of 236.2c/kg for bullocks was set when the Charters Towers combined agents offered a substantially larger yarding of 1004 cattle for last week's prime and store sale. The yarding was of good quality and overall better condit
15 Nov 01 | POLITICAL experts have outlined the Coalition's reliance on conservative politics as the key to their comprehensive win in the North at this year's Federal election. Coalition members Warren Entsch, DeAnn Kelly and Peter Lindsay retained thei
15 Nov 01 | A GEOLOGICAL process started in the Jurassic era more than 160 million years ago has helped diversify a Gulf station into an award-winning eco tourism attraction. Cobbold Gorge, operated south of Forsayth on Howlong Station by Simon and Gay Terry,
15 Nov 01 | AT the inauguration of the inland rail corridor at Goondiwindi, deputy Prime Minister John Anderson and a crowd of 500 watched Australian Transport and Energy Corridor chief Everald Compton take a hammer and drive a standard gauge iron spike into
15 Nov 01 | Buyers were very selective and local fires and widespread dry conditions prevented many past supporters of the sale from attending. Top-priced bull of the day was presented by the Hazelton Pastoral Co of Middlemount. This 30-month-old red sire
15 Nov 01 | LIGHTWEIGHT steers, heavy bullocks and most categories of cows sold to dearer trends when Mareeba's combined agents penned a larger yarding of 1124 head for last week's sale. Steers up to 400kg were from 10-25c dearer with D1s and D2s making betwe
15 Nov 01 | THE 2001 Wilangi Beef Brahmans Invitation Sale, to be held at Charters Towers on Thursday and Friday November 29 and 30, has catered to the full Grey Brahman stud and commercial cattle market by broadening its quantity and selection of industry-leadi
08 Nov 01 | BATTLING Tully banana growers have been caught in a funding impasse after the New South Wales State Government withdrew $2 million in funding for the black sigatoka eradication program. With the Commonwealth Government in caretaker mode until
08 Nov 01 | A PEN of 12 Brahman bullocks sold to a record-breaking top of 227.6c/kg - 10c above the previous record set earlier this year - when Mareeba's combined agents penned 851 head for last week's sale. The bullocks were presented by Wesfarmers Landmark
08 Nov 01 | A PEN of five Brahman bullocks presented by GW Carrick of Maitland Station, Einasleigh, set a new Charters Towers saleyards record when they sold to Thos Borthwick and Sons for 235.2c/kg last week. At an average weight of 612kg, these returned $14
08 Nov 01 | NORTHERN cattle producers should have no concerns about the doing ability of the lots on offer at the forthcoming Wilangi Beef Brahmans Invitation Sale at Charters Towers. All three vendor studs, Wilangi, Apis Creek and FBC are located in the co
08 Nov 01 | A FIVE-PERSON independent board is to take the reins from the Queensland Principal Club and run racing in Queensland. Racing Minister Merri Rose said the ultimate control body for thoroughbred racing in Queensland however would be a company limit
08 Nov 01 | THE Cramsie saleyards complex will be back bigger and better in the new year with the Longreach Shire Council planning to undertake major refurbishing works at the yards during the end-of-year break in sales. Saleyards manager Malcolm Smith said t
08 Nov 01 | A PROTEST rally has achieved a major breakthrough in a long running campaign for increased representation and fairer water charges for North Queensland irrigators. More than 200 Mackay and Proserpine canegrowers took part in the rally, organi
08 Nov 01 | AUSTRALIA'S rangelands take up more than three-quarters of our continent. They are rich in natural resources, dazzling landscapes and contain some of the country's rarest flora and fauna. But this vast area lacks a management program that strikes
08 Nov 01 | LAST week's Tartrus Lancefield Brahman Sale at Gracemere, Rockhampton, through a succession of sale records and buyer bidding fireworks, took the Australian stud cattle industry to the top of world achievements with a $1.9 million result. In its
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