7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (666+ words) A strong contingent of loyal, long-time clients has encouraged the competition at Merryville's 27th annual on-property sale, as a buoyant wool market made its mark on the Merino ram-selling season. A total of 105 of 125 lots were sold at Boorowa on Friday,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (553+ words) Buyers chased heavy fleece cutting rams at the Meadow View Poll Merino stud's annual ram sale held on-property near Henty on Thursday, September 10. At the fall of the hammer, the Bahr family sold 49 of 56 rams on offer to a top-price…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (660+ words) Bidding needed no warming up at Overland's maiden auction at Bogan Gate on Wednesday, September 9, with buyers pushing hard from the first lots and the atmosphere remaining charged through to the closing gavel. The full catalogue of 60 Merino rams cleared…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (746+ words) A strong lamb market underpinned the Tullinga Dorper stud's annual sale as buyers chased balanced rams with frame and length. Held on-property at Condobolin on Wednesday, September 9, all 127 White Dorper and Dorper rams on offer were sold to a top-price…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (675+ words) Strong competition for the best of the yearling bulls has underpinned the top price for Wormbete Simmentals, in what was the stud's very first sale of fully Black Simmental and SimAngus sires. Of the 33 lots offered at Illabo on Wednesday,…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (805+ words) There's grazing opportunity this spring season - despite continued warnings about a super El Nino - with new restockers placing pressure on limited supply. The Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) has been steadily climbing in the past month, closing at 1012 cents a…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (420+ words) Resilient rams with the ability to deliver wool cut, quality and sirey attributes were high in demand at the Ballatherie Poll Merino ram sale at Hillston. The sale had 138 of 150 Merino rams sold to a top of $4600 and average of…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (882+ words) For the New England farming communities fighting high-voltage transmission lines and compulsory land acquisitions, the battle is headed for the Supreme Court. Legal advice obtained by three landholders in the Walcha and Gundy locales has identified a key costing requirement,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (568+ words) Heavyweight export lambs, finished on barley and lucerne, have won the champion pen of the Tamworth Livestock Agents' Spring Lamb Show and Sale on Monday, September 7. About 400 lambs were judged by local buyers at the annual event, held in memory…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (741+ words) In a barley paddock in County Cork, Ireland, Nuffield scholar Maggie Jarrett watched something she hadn't seen anywhere else in her research. It was a company representative on the ground, working alongside the farmer to figure out what was actually…...