23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
23/09/2004 | 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
11/09/2004 | THE extra two years given to graziers will help, but it is not the solution to implementing NLIS, says grazier and ABA member Rodger Jefferis, Elrose, Cloncurry. "It is better then nothing but I still can't see how it will work," he said. The
11/09/2004 | ALTHOUGH one of the smaller yardings to be seen at a Longreach sale for a while, Longreach Combined Agents still yarded 2200 head including 1700 prime, and the balance store, cattle last week. The reduced yarding was the result of much-needed rai
11/09/2004 | THE concession to phase-in the implementation of NLIS over a two-year period has eased a lot of concerns for North Queensland AgForce representative Norm Kippin, who said the implementation of the system would now run much more smoothly. "The
11/09/2004 | ERITREA, the small African country which came to Australia's aid to end the Cormo Express high seas incident last year, has agreed to further help Australia's live export industry with its trade in the Middle East. This follows a meeting on Tu
11/09/2004 | SOME welcome rain through last week pulled numbers at Gracemere Store Sale down to 2180 head on Friday, with cattle drawn from Nebo, Calen, Clermont, Alpha, Dingo, Baralaba, Monto and local areas. Buyers were keen to secure stock throughout the sa
11/09/2004 | SPENDING every Thursday working on a banana farm may not be everybody's cup of tea but for Damien Collins, East Palmerston, it is what he wants to make his career. A student of Good Counsel College, Innisfail, Damien is currently undertaking a tr
11/09/2004 | A REDUCED yarding was offered to a full panel of buyers at Mareeba sale last week. Quality was generally mixed with many small consignments of varied condition. Prices also fluctuated with grown steers easing slightly and cows improving. Grow
11/09/2004 | 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
11/09/2004 | Movement of all animals will also be recorded on a central database and, according to State Primary Industries and Fisheries Minister Henry Palaszczuk, no movement by any of Queensland's estimated 10 million head will be exempt. While last week's
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