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Prices go on hold

3:00 AM | A PERIOD of consolidation following the record trading highs in early 2011 seems apparent for the lamb industry in 2012.

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Sheep on track to meet export deadline

11 Feb 12 | IMPLEMENTATION of the new supply chain regulations for Australian live animal exports to the Middle East are on track to meet a critical upcoming deadline, according to members of a high level delegation that toured the region last week.

Livestock - Sheep

Merino buyers spoilt for choice at GSSM

10 Feb 12 | MERINO buyers still rolling in confidence from the buoyant sheep and lamb prices and regular spikes in the wool market in the past 12 months came armed with the cash to buy quality stud rams at last week’s Great Southern Supreme Merino ram sale at Canberra.

Livestock - Sheep

Crook concerned over trade future

10 Feb 12 | FEDERAL member for O'Connor Tony Crook said he has major concerns over the future of the live export trade.

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Mungadal takes out Peppin Shaw

09 Feb 12 | A TWO man show has snagged the top gong in the prestigious Riverina Peppin Shaw ewe competition.

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Growing lamb’s share of the meat pie

08 Feb 12 | THE question of how the Australian lamb industry will grow its share in the red meat market pie is the focus of a 12-month research project by WA sheep producer and Sheep CRC scientist Kelly Manton-Pearce.

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Peppin-Shaw finally comes of age

08 Feb 12 | THE annual Peppin-Shaw Riverina ewe flock competition has finally reached its 21st birthday, a milestone that had eluded the world class event for five extra years since its inception due to a checkered history of droughts and flooding rains.

Livestock - Sheep

Tara Park impresses at GSSM

08 Feb 12 | AFTER a couple of years out of the showring, the Evans family’s Tara Park Merino stud, Boorowa, burst back on the scene with a bang by taking out the supreme exhibit title at the Great Southern Supreme Merino (GSSM) Show on January 21 and 22.

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Good season, prices to drive sheep industry

08 Feb 12 | A COMBINATION of all-time high lamb prices in 2011, favourable seasons and strong global demand will drive producer optimism in 2012, according to Meat & Livestock Australia’s newly released 2012 sheep industry projections. | Cattle numbers start to impact ... | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt

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Restocking demand down at Bendigo

07 Feb 12 | SLIGHTLY more lambs were available at Bendigo on Monday although agents penned less than the original draw.

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Lamb tenderness research questioned

06 Feb 12 | A BINDI Bindi lamb producer has raised concerns over research into lamb tenderness saying producers are not getting financially rewarded for implementing new technology. |

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Livestock - Sheep

WAMMCO Select bonuses for Kojonup breeder

05 Feb 12 | A HIGH WAMMCO Select score for 65 of the 113 cull ewe hoggets processed for Kojonup stud breeders Tim and Steph Stevenson in December did more than assist the couple to win their first WAMMCO Producer of the Month title.

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Full flush produces record embryo haul

05 Feb 12 | A DOHNE ewe from the Capercup stud, Kojonup, has returned 50 live embryos to set a new record at Breedtech for the amount of live embryos flushed from a single ewe.

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Lock-up your young ewes

03 Feb 12 | OPERATION Poach has halved sheep theft in parts of the Murray Mallee and lower Yorke Peninsula since it was launched in July last year, according to the South Australian Police. |

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MacRury reinstated as WAMMCO chief

02 Feb 12 | WAMMCO has made a management restructure which has resulted in its chief executive Scott Weir being made redundant.

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UK chief to speak at LambEx

02 Feb 12 | JBS UK managing director Marcus O’Sullivan is one of three international guests invited to speak at LambEx 2012.

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OJD management plan out now

01 Feb 12 | THE Sheepmeat Council of Australia & Woolproducers Australia have put out a What You Need To Know factsheet on The National OJD Management Plan 2012-17. |

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Barber's pole worm answers at Stanthorpe

01 Feb 12 | SHEEP and goat producers across Southern Queensland and Northern NSW, looking for better management solutions to barber's pole worm, are urged to attend a training workshop in Stanthorpe on February 6.

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Genetics the key to Merino profit

01 Feb 12 | THOSE that breed Merinos are in no doubt it is a profitable enterprise, but now there is also plenty of trial data to prove it. |

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Warialda ram sets record

01 Feb 12 | THE announcement late last year for the dispersal of the Terraweena Dorper and White Dorper Stud, based in Warialda, NSW, caused surprise and speculation among Dorper circles, both nationally and internationally.

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