North West Farmer

Soaring sheep prices show no sign of slowing

RECORD-breaking spring lamb contracts and unprecedented rising prices at saleyards are delivering strong returns for producers, as supply tightens across Victoria and southern New South Wales. Elders Swan Hill-based livestock specialist Matt Rowlands...

26 Jul 2025

Dairy

Iced coffee definitely still coming

I WISH I had never opened my big mouth and said the iced coffee was close. I am an idiot – albeit in a loveable, innocent farm boy kind of way. But nevertheless, a complete nincompoop. What I should have said, probably what I meant to say but...

22 Jul 2025

North West Farmer

Wool org spots open

AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation (AWI) has announced the three director positions that will be vacated ahead of this November’s annual general meeting. Chairman Jock Laurie is retiring and not seeking re-election in line with the company’s 10-year...

22 Jul 2025

Livestock

Pricing indicators out

MLA’s National Livestock Reporting Service has released two new pricing indicators – the national feeder heifer indicator, and the online sheep indicator. Their release will broaden MLA’s indicator offering, filling coverage gaps across sales...

22 Jul 2025

Wine Grapes

A different kind of dry July

THERE will be a fair bit of fantasy in this report, which might also contain a fair bit of fortune telling at the same time, as our North West Farmer editor is supposedly doing the Kokoda Track and required this report to be compiled more than three...

22 Jul 2025

Opinion

The worker conundrum

I WELL remember the old man telling me about the good old days, when a bale of wool bought him a new car. Well, those days, I can assure you, are long gone. Nowadays the boffins at AWI suggest you would need at least 30 bales of wool – and with...

22 Jul 2025

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ULTRAWHITE SHINES BRIGHT AT ROSEDALE

Rosedale Stud UltraWhite ewe lambs 9-10 mths, ready to go out with some ram lambs. With an average weight at post weaning assessment of 67.2kg they also recorded an ASBV average PWWT 11.7, with a high of 12.9 and PEMD of 2.18, with a high of 2.74...

29 Aug 2023

News

Sea Lake service technician named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year

Haeusler’s John Deere Sea Lake service technician Lachlan Corridan was named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year at an awards ceremony in Brisbane last night. John Deere Australia and New Zealand managing director, Luke...

25 Aug 2023

Video

Ultra good results for Induro’s Ultra Whites

Guy Treweek’s Wakool, NSW, based Induro White Suffolk stud already had a blue-ribbon reputation for the quality of the rams it produced. But in the very short time it has also started breeding Ultra White sheep, it has raised the bar to new...

08 Aug 2023

Roughage still needed

WITH the escalating price of hay and the availability of other feed, supplements producers might be asking themselves if they really need to feed roughage this winter. Ag Victoria northern region senior veterinary officer Jeff Cave said there is no...

22 Jul 2025

North West Farmer

Seemingly never-ending farmer cost burdens must end

VICTORIA’S farmers are being squeezed from every direction. Drought conditions, soaring input costs and volatile global markets have already placed unprecedented pressure on agricultural producers...

21 Jul 2025

Education

Apprentice up for national nod

HENRY Barkley has been prepared to go a long way to realise his dream of becoming a John Deere service technician. What started as a fun time during school holidays, helping out on his uncle’s farm outside South Australia’s famed Barossa Valley...

21 Jul 2025

News

Veggie org adds to compliance conversation

AUSVEG, the peak industry body for Australia’s vegetable industry, has weighed into the compliance controversy which has targeted the Sunraysia as one of the worst agricultural regions in the country for ripping off mostly seasonal...

21 Jul 2025

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