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Dohne ewes av $780 at Potari dispersal
19 Mar 10 | Dohne stud ewes sold for an average price of $780 at the Potari dispersal at the Adelaide Showground on Wednesday.  | Double goes to DeloshandaPhotos from the Mount Gambier ...Visit Stock Journal
Double goes to Deloshanda
18 Mar 10 | IT WAS third time lucky for Dusty and Lorraine Macgowan, Deloshanda, Mount Pleasant, who made a clean sweep of all the major prizes at the Elders South Australian Stud Merino Expo at Burra on Monday.  | Mob based movement recording ...Calves $2.12/kg at Compass
Mob based movement recording for sheep and goats
17 Mar 10 | PRIMARY Industries and Resources South Australia is informing producers that new rules will apply to the movement of sheep and goats in South Australia starting 1 July 2010.  | Comet stars in showringPrices keep processors in check
Prices keep processors in check
15 Mar 10 | HIGH lamb and mutton prices, and short supply, have forced most sheep processors to re-think their business strategies in the past few months.
Ewes top $216 at Kongorong dispersal
03 Mar 10 | FIRST cross ewes sold to $216 at the on-property dispersal sale of Kevin Mullan, Roylin Park, Kongorong, on Monday.  | T&R Pastoral purchases Country ...Farm export earnings to rise ...
Stud pioneer touts sheep of the future
01 Mar 10 | LEADING South African sheep stud stock producer Clynton Collett, who pioneered the introduction of several dual purpose sheep breeds into Australia, has made possible a new meat breed for Australian producers that he said is the “low cost sheep of the future”.  | CommentsComments (1) | Pathfinder shows dedicationCurtain falls on final ...
Lamb leaps
25 Feb 10 | LAMB prices and profitability are expected to soar during the next 12 months, according to Meat & Livestock Australia sheepmeat analyst Kara Tighe.  | CommentsComments (1) | Designers bring Romance back to ...US beef cattle expansion not ...
Cleanskins shortage caps growth
24 Feb 10 | THEY WERE cautious of the response in Australia's Merino-dominated State. But what the coordinators of the first Australian shedding sheep, or cleanskin organisation, did not bank on was packing out an Adelaide showground's exhibition room with 230 people - 90 per cent producers - from six states of Australia and the United States, South Africa and New Zealand at its first Australian symposium.  | Designers bring Romance back to ...Selling lamb over-hooks ...
Selling lamb over-hooks complements crops in Mid North
20 Feb 10 | WHEN a Mid North property at Lochiel came up for lease a little over a year ago, a hurriedly-convened family conference reached the unanimous decision that its acquisition could be the answer to long-term plans of focusing more on meat production.  | Sizzling summer prices at ...Sheep keep options open
Lamb’s strong performance to continue: MLA
18 Feb 10 | Another year of high prices and profitability is forecast for Australia’s lamb producers, underpinned by strong overseas and domestic demand for the product.  | Sizzling summer prices at ...Sheep keep options open
Sheep keep options open
13 Feb 10 | MERINOS are an important part of the mix at the Jacka family's farm at Mannanarie in the Mid North.  | Bar raised for quality at 2010 ...Red-hot Naracoorte sale blasts ...
Sizzling summer prices at Dublin, Naracoorte lamb sales
11 Feb 10 | LAMB producers are getting a much-needed leg-up, thanks to tight supplies that may keep prices high - much stronger than last year - for months to come.  | Aussies stand by their lambRed-hot Naracoorte sale blasts ...
Galaxy emphasises quality
30 Jan 10 | WITH reports of lambs selling in excess of $5 a kilogram in Bendigo pre-sale, confidence was high at Geoff and Jill Gale's Galaxy Park White Suffolk Spring lambing ram sale at Reedy Creek on Monday, last week.
28 Jan 10 | PRICES matched the scorching weather at Jamestown market on Thursday last week, with young ewes topping the sale at $136.
Portable electric units boost feed utilisation
23 Jan 10 | A ROTATIONAL grazing system using portable electric fencing allows Wudinna producer Chris Lymn to double his feed utilisation.  | CommentsComments (1) | Ruralco ready to fill Viterra ...Mountains of debt but water cap ...
Heavy lambs to $133 at Dublin
20 Jan 10 | Altogether 19,500 sheep and lambs were yarded at Tuesday's Dublin sale, where heavy lambs sold to $133, Merino lambs sold to $107 and trade wethers at $100.
Shedding sheep easy care: Good demand for 'saleable' meat quality
16 Jan 10 | RUNNING shedding sheep helps Callington farmer Bill Filmer maximise the land use of properties he leases across the Fleurieu Peninsula and southern Adelaide Hills.  | Kekovich UN peace talks to ...Weaners attract premium at ...
Invasion of the Mega Merinos
15 Jan 10 | SOUTH Africa has become well known in recent years for its new strains of Merino type sheep – and now we have another.  | Kekovich UN peace talks to ...Strath steers up $15-$20
Rosebank kicks production goals
31 Dec 09 | EVERYTHING about the picture-perfect, magnificently-maintained Rosebank property, just a few kilometres east of Mount Pleasant, has that unmistakeable aura of a well coordinated strategy of astute management.
Age before beauty in Adelaide Hills
29 Dec 09 | TO keep replacement costs to a minimum, Adelaide Hills producer Roger Carman buys older ewes for his prime lamb operation.
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