23 Sep 04 | COUNTLESS happy nibblers who spoon up fruit hidden in the bottom of the yoghurt, munch breakfast muesli or challenge the waistline with a blueberry muffin wouldn't have the slightest idea where that beaut fruity stuff comes from. But an innovative
23 Sep 04 | RURAL confidence has improved dramatically in North Queensland and is significantly higher than the national average, according to results of the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey. The survey shows 42 percent of North Queensland primary prod
23 Sep 04 | RECENT warnings of leptospirosis, an acute infectious disease, are forcing bush people to take precautionary measures against infection by the leptospira bacteria. Although people have been infected with leptospirosis in the Northern Territory
23 Sep 04 | NORTH Queensland property Lava Plains sold for $7.1 million at an auction at Jupiters in Townsville last week. The property sold under the hammer for $7.1 million to Lock and Kate Harrington, of Ashdon. Vendors were well-known cane growers Geoff
23 Sep 04 | WITH a handy water allocation under its belt, Dululu grazing and irrigation property Melrose is set for a good start in its run into spring and summer. Featuring an allocation of 370ML with no water charges or metres, there is the water to cater f
23 Sep 04 | MUNDUBBERA citrus properties Toulon and Golden Mile Farms are coming up for auction and are already attracting strong interest. The farms join another major citrus operation of the area going to auction this month, being the Meyer family's Ventnor
23 Sep 04 | PAPAW farming is like riding a roller-coaster - one minute you are up, the next you are down. But Joe Zappala, of Mena Creek, reckons there needs to be a reduction in compliance costs before the whole industry derails. The Zappala family, like
23 Sep 04 | THE State Government has announced changes to the Duty Relief Scheme it claims will increase access to funds designed to encourage amalgamation and more efficient sugarcane production. Under the first version of the program, the Government offered
23 Sep 04 | WHILE the Northern rural property market has maintained a sweet song for some time now, property valuers Herron Todd Whiten (HTW) have urged buyers to consider the "inevitable commodity price cycles". Rising world beef exports, particularly fr
23 Sep 04 | FROM fear to frenzy - that's the progression that Topex sales manager Jack Slane says the Queensland cattle and property markets have gone through in 2004. Mr Slaney delivered this message to those who attended the Topex/Raine and Horne infor
23 Sep 04 | JAMBIN property Tullin Tulla sold under the hammer last week for $1.03 million to Steve and Theresa Taylor, of Clukan, Meandarra. The Taylors are no strangers to the Callide Valley and have previously owned property in the Jambin area before relo
11 Sep 04 | SEVENTY-NINE vendors will stage the nation's largest multi vendor Droughtmaster Sale, the National Droughtmaster Bull and Female Sale, at Gracemere on September 23 and 24. This year's offering involves studs from two states and comprises 529 r
11 Sep 04 | The majority of the Balcara sale bulls are by Billabong Jalepeno(P) and display excellent toplines, tidy sheaths and the extra length of body which delivers their impressive weight figures. The balance of the draft is by their home-bred poll sire
11 Sep 04 | CONCERNS over the state of the season have been replaced by anxiety over Crusader Stud's lot numbers at the end of this year's Rocky sale. Possibly three of the best bulls on offer will appear as lots 538 to 540, only five bulls from the end of th
11 Sep 04 | Of the registered bulls, three are by Wingfield Road-Runner and four by Jasanda Comanche while five of the herd bulls are by Billabong G/5/1 283(P). Principal Peter Barton believes they are typical of the Huntly weight for age types they consisten
11 Sep 04 | CHOICE and the opportunities it provides is something Con Iacutone of Emerald Creek believes was removed from farmers with the decision to phase out tobacco on the Tablelands. A second-generation farmer at Emerald Creek, Con said an apprenticeship
11 Sep 04 | WITH a splash of fresh mud being kicked up by cattle in the yards from overnight rain, the Charters Towers sale had a fresh kick as well. There were 1958 cattle, consisting of 1205 prime and 753 store cattle yarded at last week's sale. It was
11 Sep 04 | ROMA had 5500 cattle, 30 points of rain and a dearer market with heavy steers to 208c and $1026, medium steers to 223c, weaner steers to 256c, feeder heifers to 216c and lightweight backgrounder heifers to 211c/kg at the store sale last week. Stee
11 Sep 04 | THE little bit of rain earlier in the week was enough to reduce numbers to 900 head at Roma Prime Sale last week where bullocks reached 195c, heifers sold to 183c, cows topped at 171c, and bulls reached 170c, but some categories could not measure up
11 Sep 04 | THE Spann family will have their high-quality line of cattle going to the National Droughtmaster Sale in Charters Towers this year. The Spann family, from Minlacowie and Wingfield, Goovigen, are offering 40 bulls along with one donated to Childho
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