31 Jan 10 | DESPITE the current El Nino, promising rainfall continues to make its way to inland parts of Queensland and NSW, with widespread and heavy falls expected within the next week.
31 Jan 10 | NORTH Queensland rodeo competitors attending the Australian Bushmen's Campdraft and Rodeo Association National Finals have had great success.
31 Jan 10 | ONE Balfes Creek beef producer has created new business utilising fertile red soil and water to grow hay.
30 Jan 10 | A NEWLY declared moratorium on water licence applications and construction works including the sinking of irrigation bores in the Wet Tropics has put Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Trade Minister Stephen Robertson back in the political hot seat.
30 Jan 10 | PAUL and Jane Stone are hanging up their hats after almost 21 years of managing Heytesbury Beef-owned Mt Sanford Station in the Victoria River District (VRD).
29 Jan 10 | AS Olga gradually re-intensifies over the southern fringes of the Gulf of Carpentaria, she is delivering relentless rain to the tropics.
29 Jan 10 | TO manage the feral pig problem in the Herbert River District on a professional basis, last year the local cane industry through Herbert Cane Productivity Services, the Hinchinbrook Regional Council, the Department of Natural Resources and other interested parties got together to formulate a community based feral pig control program.
29 Jan 10 | FERTILISER supplier Ravensdown is this week launching a new soil test service to help cane growers determine input requirements.
28 Jan 10 | CONSUMERS can enjoy a steak or lamb chop with confidence of its small carbon hoof-print thanks to today’s release of research highlighting the environmental efficiency of Australia’s red meat industry.
28 Jan 10 | EX-Tropical Cyclone Olga is predicted to cross the Gulf of Carpentaria after achieving category 2 intensity and strike at Karumba.
28 Jan 10 | AUSTRALIAN beef exporters are hoping to get a large chunk of the new European Union beef export quota, announced last week, which opens the door for duty-free global access to a new specialty market for high quality grain-fed beef up to 20,000 tonnes.
28 Jan 10 | CHINA'S Bright Food has warned it will not make a revised bid for CSR's sugar business, indicating that hopes of a $1.5 billion sale are dead.
28 Jan 10 | CSR has warmed to the $1.5 billion offer by Bright Food Group to buy CSR's local sugar and renewable energy assets, but advised the Chinese predator to get serious.
28 Jan 10 | AUSTRALIA'S economic recovery this year will be ''mild not wild'', as rising inflation and interest rates keep household spending in check, according to Access Economics.
28 Jan 10 | THE Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) is warning farmers not to attempt to cut costs by reducing herbicide application rates below recommended label rates.
27 Jan 10 | IT has taken one horrendous season without any worthwhile rainfall for nine months for Bororen district cattle producers Phil and Louise Smallcombe to appreciate the value of an early weaning management strategy.
27 Jan 10 | FOR one Ayr cane farmer, singing Italian opera while toiling in the cane fields is a daily task.
27 Jan 10 | CREATIVE value adding methods have helped preserve the family-run Gallo dairy farm, which has been in operation on the Atherton Tableland for more than 70 years.
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27 Jan 10 | AFTER an eventful couple of weeks in the cyclone world, it looks as though more action is on it's way as Olga gets set to re-intensify into a category one.
27 Jan 10 | THE December quarter Australian Lot Feeders Association (ALFA) and Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) survey has indicated that while cattle numbers on feed increased slightly to 770,000 head, market conditions remained extremely tough for lotfeeders.
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