Tag: Rural
Breed with a background
ACCORDING to the Australian Limousin Breeders’ Society website, the history of the breed goes back more than 15,000 years to an area surrounding the...
Numbers fall on dearer market
AT VLE Pakenham there were approximately 1000 export and 900 young cattle penned representing a decrease of 80 head week-on-week.
There was a full field...
Prices reward for effort
With demand still strong across the state, prices for the Wednesday Fat Sale at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, continued in an upward move....
Ploughing hits gold
THE West Gippsland Ploughing Association celebrated its 50th anniversary earlier this month with a Silver Share ploughing contest and celebration dinner.
The Silver...
Growing story of commitment
By MARY HUGHES
WOMEN on Farms West Gippsland members met in April to spend an afternoon with the Bramley family and share farmer...
Buyers put off by high prices
There were approximately 950 export and 1000 young cattle penned at VLE Pakenham.
There was an almost full field of buyers present, although not...
Demand lifts prices
The Fat Sale at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, contained 430 less head on the previous week and with demand still firm, buyers lifted...
A matter of taste
Heavy-handed health warnings are not the key to more organic fruit and vegetables making it onto dinner plates. Neale Gillespie and Andrew Morris tell...
Dealership knows the drill
GILTRAP in Australia has recently announced it has taken on the distribution of the Taege range of Seed Drills.
Business development manager Warren Grose said...
Prices ease on greater supply
A LARGER yarding of 1131 head sold at the fat cattle sale at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, last Wednesday, and with these larger...
Hearts set in stone
By KATHRYN BERMINGHAM
“I have great memories on this land."
AT the back of Peter and Mary-Anne Hams’ Tynong property lies a hidden piece of Australian...
Quest for perfection
The tractor driven rotary hoe was an integral part of cultivation practices throughout the world all through the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and it...