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Indonesia live cattle record
6:47 PM AEST | Increasing consumer demand for beef driven by a growing economy, combined with growth in feedlot infrastructure has contributed to record live cattle exports to Indonesia during the 2007-08 fiscal year just completed.  | Roma feeders top 193c/kg | Don’t take our stock routes
Why it’s a bull market
6:41 PM AEST | News on the prime markets continues to be positive. With the fall in our $A, and customers coming on board for manufacturing beef, processors have once again lifted over-the-hook prices for cows and bulls.  | CommentsComments (1) | Indonesia live cattle record | Roma feeders top 193c/kg
Roma feeders top 193c/kg
27/08/2008 | Roma agents yarded a mixed quality offering of 7500 head at Tuesday's store sale, where the market struggled to maintain the strong rates of recent weeks.  | Games are over ... let the wool ... | Games are over ... let the wool ... | VIDEO: Roma feeders top 193c/kg
Don’t take our stock routes
27/08/2008 | Drovers, farmers, the Wilderness Society and birdwatchers have united to voice outrage at plans to hand over Travelling Stock Routes to the State Government.  | Games are over ... let the wool ... | PrimeAg posts $1.9m profit
Santa bulls hit $40,000 high at Emerald
27/08/2008 | Santa bulls sold to a seasonal high of $40,000 at yesterdays annual Cardona Canowindra Santa Gertrudis Sale, Emerald.  | Brumby, ministers come under ... | Wool market slips a further 7c/kg
US feedlot numbers continue to shrink
26/08/2008 | The United States Department of Ariculture's new count on the number of cattle and calves in feedlots shows that the American cattle industry may be shrinking more than first thought.  | Rainfall draws property buyers ... | The big dry: it's not raining ...
$50,000 high for Palgrove Charolais bulls
25/08/2008 | Blue-ribbon Queensland Charolais stud, Palgrove, recorded a $50,000 top and an average of $7238 at its sale on Friday.  | Court decision a win for live ... | Nats Foods the front runner for ...
25/08/2008 | The growing use of animal dietary supplements is raising concerns in the United States, including fears about the safety of specific supplements and the approaches taken to determine their safeness.  | Third weed now glyphosate ... | Season's top price: $140 for ...
Season's top price: $140 for Vic sucker lambs
25/08/2008 | Prime young lambs met keen demand to fetch a season's top price so far, $140 a head, at Victoria’s Shepparton regional saleyards, on Friday.  | VIDEO: $140 for top Vic lambs
Swift investments drive Aust beef exports
23/08/2008 | A year after the biggest ownership shake-up in Australian red meat processing history, the business operations of JBS Friboi’s Swift Australia division have had some dramatic changes.  | Strong demand for quality prime ... | EU's added attraction in prime ...
Cattle breeders compete strongly for heifers
23/08/2008 | Northeast Victorian buyers, still gun-shy from a season needing rain, competed strongly, especially for young breeding females, at a 2000-head yarding of store cattle at Wodonga, Vic, on Thursday.  | VIDEO: Cattle breeders buy up heifers ...
Strong demand for quality prime cattle at Roma, Qld, sale
22/08/2008 | Heavy bullocks and steers were dearer than at last week's sale, in a larger yarding at Thursday’s Roma, Qld, prime cattle sale. Generally, cattlemen continued to enjoy strong demand for quality prime cattle.  | EU's added attraction in prime ... | Talking beef genetics on NSW ...
EU's added attraction in prime cattle market
22/08/2008 | A highlight of the prime market is the acceleration of prices for EU cattle. Southern Queensland works are now quoting up to 400c/kg dressed over-the-hook for suitable EU two and four-tooth steers.  | Canada confirms another case of ... | Roma cattle influx: 11,500 head
22/08/2008 | The latest improvements in beef genetics will be the focus of four mini-field days for beef producers on the NSW North Coast this month.
Small lamb feedlots may struggle under new regime
21/08/2008 | Small opportunity lamb feedlots on farm may struggle to survive without more support.  | WAMMCO posts its second biggest ... | Lamb prices ease, despite ...
WAMMCO posts its second biggest profit
21/08/2008 | WA meat processors could be in for a tough time next year, but sheep producers should benefit from a large reduction in WA's sheep flock, according to WA Meat Marketing Cooperative (WAMMCO) chief executive Des Griffiths.  | Saleyard system a major WA ... | Fickle season hits quality, but ...
Saleyard system a major WA state election issue
21/08/2008 | WA'S state election may finally spark some action on the state's regional saleyard system after the Liberal Party announced its agricultural policy in Miling on Monday.  | FMD model tracks cattle movements | Canada confirms another case of ...
20/08/2008 | Researchers have completed the first stage of development work on a comprehensive model of the spread of foot and mouth disease in cattle to evaluate policy surrounding the management of FMD and other exotic diseases should an outbreak occur in Australia.
CSIRO researchers win rural research awards
20/08/2008 | CSIRO’s Dr Anthony Keyburn and Chris Cowled were among the winners at the Smart Geelong Network’s Researcher of the Year Awards dinner last weekend.
20/08/2008 | A six-year-old cow in Alberta, Canada, was confirmed to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy at the weekend.  | FMD model tracks cattle movements | Roma cattle influx: 11,500 head
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Preference deals with the Greens - how will it play out in the Senate?

27/08/2008 | IF farmers are wondering what the new look Senate will mean for them, they should just take a look at politics in NSW and the behind-closed-doors relationship between Labor and the Greens for a taste of what might be in store Federally.
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