State News

Numbers light-on at Mareeba

10 Feb 12 | NUMBERS were tight with a yarding of 234 for the first Mareeba prime sale of the new year, held on January 31. The yarding included five cows and calves that were sold at open auction, topping a

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Kasey Chambers headlines Beef Australia 2012 live entertainment

09 Feb 12 | AUSTRALIAN country music legend, Kasey Chambers, and Rockhampton’s own chart successes, Busby Marou, will headline the Beef Australia 2012 Country Collaboration Concert.

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Big Country Brahman sales blast past 2011 high

07 Feb 12 | HILLTOPS Pastoral Company has paid top price for $55000 for a 28 month old Red Brahman Bull at the Big Country Brahman sale at Charters Towers today G.I. Brahmans.

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Cattle exporters, lot feeders copping brunt of uncertainty

01 Feb 12 | LIVE cattle exporters and lot feeders are faced with a bleak outlook in 2012, when compared with other sectors of the industry.

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Blackall sale washed out

31 Jan 12 | BLACKALL is the third sale in central Queensland this week to be cancelled due to widespread rain.

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Research cherry-picks beef

30 Jan 12 | MUSCULAR cattle are more likely to produce the cherry-red coloured steaks preferred by consumers, according to new Beef CRC research conducted at Murdoch University.

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Chance find sheds light on woolly past

28 Jan 12 | THE expression "one person's trash is another person's treasure" was apt when Tully resident Debbie Watt rang the North Queensland Register office recently with the news she had found something she thought might be of great interest to the paper.

Livestock - Sheep

Palgrove sale offers top line-up

27 Jan 12 | CENTRAL and northern cattle producers and Charolais studmasters from across the state will welcome the opportunity that the third Palgrove Charolais Northern Cattle Country Sale presents to them in its offering of 40 high-quality bulls at Charters Towers on Tuesday, February 7.

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Prices down as new year kicks off

26 Jan 12 | CATTLE prices have registered a cheaper trend during the first few weeks of 2012, with all major indicators back from the 2011 close.

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NT pain remains over live cattle export ban

25 Jan 12 | NORTHERN Territory Opposition Leader Terry Mills says the impacts of the Gillard Government's blanket ban on live beef exports are still being felt in both Indonesia and Australia. |

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Rain cancels Emerald sale

24 Jan 12 | DUE to widespread rain in central Queensland, Emerald, one of the regions premier selling centres, has been forced to cancel its sale on Wednesday, January 25.

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NLIS, room for improvement

24 Jan 12 | A RECENT producer demonstration site (PDS) is pointing to ways that the National Livestock Identification System can be used to improve production efficiency before your livestock step off the property. |

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