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31 Jul 2006 | Food prices up
Food prices jumped 8.3 per cent in the year to June according to Rabobank. ...... FULL STORY
31 Jul 2006 | WA pastures under pressure
Pasture yield rates in the south west areas of Western Australia will be down by as much as 60 per cent this year according to CSIRO satellite research. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jul 2006 | US beef returns to Japan
Japan has lifted its six month ban on US beef imports. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jul 2006 | Queensland cattle empire to change hands
Queensland cattle baron Peter Hughes is rumoured to be buying big beef producer Colonial Agricultural Company. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jul 2006 | NLIS funding to cut tag prices
The cost of cattle ear tags is set to fall as $5.3 million in Australian Government funding begins to flow for rollout of the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) in Queensland. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jul 2006 | Goat exports to continue to rise
Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Peter McGauran said today the volume and value of goat meat exports had tripled in seven years to 20,000 tonnes valued at $74 million in 2005. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jul 2006 | Dog owners must be prosecuted
Eighty per cent of dog attacks occur on family properties or on the properties of friends or neighbours who own the dogs – said the national president of the RSPCA. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jul 2006 | Consumers believe chicken is health hazard
66 per cent of Australians mistakenly believe hormones were used to boost chicken growth says the Australian Chicken Meat Federation. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jul 2006 | Battery chicken plan released
The Victorian government has released a battery chicken reform plan outlining a number of proposals to improve living conditions for the birds and is inviting comment. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jul 2006 | BJD found near Albany
Bovine Johne's Disease has been detected at a cattle property near Albany in Western Australia. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jul 2006 | Farmers split on quarantine
The NSW Farmers Federation wants radical changes to the quarantine system to make it more conservative and beef up Biosecurity Australia to a statutory authority. ...... FULL STORY
10 Jul 2006 | T&R buys meatworks, sacks meatworkers
T&R Pastoral has bought the Port Pirie abbatoir and sacked its eighty meatworkers. ...... FULL STORY
5 Jul 2006 | Competition coming from China and Brazil
Farmers in developing nations are expected to win market share from the big agricultural producers over the next 15 years. ...... FULL STORY
5 Jul 2006 | No BSE in cattle in NSW
The NSW government has revealed that a cattle herd near Inverell in the state’s north has been quarantined and tested for BJD. ...... FULL STORY
4 Jul 2006 | Queensland allows trade of NSW beef cattle
The Queensland government said it would allow transport of beef cattle from NSW bovine johne’s disease control zones. ...... FULL STORY
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