3/07/2008 | THE Great Northern Railway team has used the experience from continually repairing the Townsville-Mt Isa rail line to win the Silver Spike tracklaying competition at the Townsville Show.
3/07/2008 | IT'S something you'd expect to be used in a time of war or in a Hollywood spy movie, but not in rural Australia as a weed buster.
3/07/2008 | THE sugar crush has kicked into gear in the Mackay region, and Marian district grower Albert DeBoni is bracing himself for the toughest season in memory.
3/07/2008 | AG-GROW QMIX in Emerald July 11-13 is shaping up to be one of the most successful marketing events available to businesses across Queensland.
3/07/2008 | NUMBERS were reduced from last sale in a yarding of 1650 head and demand was stronger. The yarding included seven cow and calf units which averaged $502.50/unit, along with five cow and calf units selling for $457.50.
3/07/2008 | THE Queensland Farmers Federation (QFF) has welcomed an announcement by the Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries, Tim Mulherin (pictured) , relating to the department's 'Fresh Approach' initiative to address some of the problems and opportunities facing primary industries.
3/07/2008 | LOCAL abattoirs and saleyards have noticed a sharp increase in the number of animals with two National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) devices, sparking renewed warnings from Biosecurity Queensland to ensure tracing devices are used correctly.
1/07/2008 | Sugarcane has been reported as a preferred feedstock for the production of bio-products, in an environmental life cycle assessment comparing Australian sugarcane with US corn and UK sugar beet.
30/06/2008 | Members of Queensland Sugar have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a restructure proposal that will result in an independent Board being appointed to oversee the company's $1.5 billion of sugar exports.
30/06/2008 | North Queensland irrigators from Mackay to Mareeba are expected to receive high to very high water allocations for the 2008/09 water year, which begins tomorrow.
26/06/2008 | Last week's collapse of a clarifier at the CSR Sugar's Pioneer Mill near Brandon has stopped the operation of the mill for an estimated 10-14 weeks, and caused a major disruption to the Queensland crush.
26/06/2008 | Experiments that found flaws in marbling and feed efficiency gene markers also produced good news - at least two tenderness markers work as expected.
26/06/2008 | During May, 58 percent of Australian butchers surveyed by Millward Brown, on behalf of MLA, described their business performance as "doing okay", while a further 35pc said their business was "thriving...
26/06/2008 | WITH $35,000 in prize money, most of which was earmarked for trade cattle, Mackay Show maintained its tradition as the richest competition of its type in Australia.
26/06/2008 | CHARTERS TOWERS Combined Agents yarded a total of 1522 cattle consisting of 326 prime cattle and 1196 store cattle with the prime contingent made up of 39 bullocks, 70 heifers, 193 cows and 25 bulls.
26/06/2008 | THE annual country music talent quest held in conjunction with the Poddy Dodgers festival proved that the country music genre was alive and well in North Queensland.
26/06/2008 | THE grand dame of Karumba Children's Centre, Bridget Findley, is calling it a day after 17 years of service to the children of this vibrant and remote fishing community.
20/06/2008 | The rupture and collapse of a boiling tank of sugar, and its subsequent collision with a second tank, has forced a full evacuation of North Queensland's Pioneer Sugar Mill, with three employees taken to Ayr Hospital for treatment.
20/06/2008 | An engineering team has been sent to CSR Sugar's Pioneer Mill in North Queensland to work on restoring crushing operations as soon as possible.
17/06/2008 | The Pioneer Valley Show has broken its record for attendance, mostly due to being an old-style rural agricultural show.