Buyers on the ground and plenty of online bidders supported the annual sale at Etiwanda White Doper stud’s Cobar property last Friday. Even the Mars-like landscape that was the 20,200 hectare Mosley family property did not detract buyers and supporters from witnessing the stud’s highest ever on-property price of $6000. A 20-year...
The Amarula Dorpers 16th annual production sale reached $14,000 on-property at Glenavon, Gravesend, on Friday, just shy of the stud’s $15,000 record. Justin and Lorroi Kirkby and family sold 81 of 112 Dorper rams offered at auction achieving a $14,000 top and $1699 average. All 27 White Dorper rams offered were sold, to a top of $4000...
WHITE Dorper genetics from the Annalara stud at Dubbo will soon be bound for China after the top price ram at its annual sale on Wednesday was secured for a new export deal. Having increased their offering for the second time in two years, the Cresswell family saw a top...
It seems a long way from the middle of 2018 when lamb prices were hitting highs never seen before. But although lamb and mutton prices have hit a slippery slide in the last few weeks, all forecasts point to price rises again, and not that far away. Last week, lamb...
SHEEP industry projections look very good for those who still have their flock intact. But the figures released by Meat and Livestock Australia suggest that many flocks are in fact not intact. MLA have forecast 2019 lamb slaughter to fall 7 per cent. These projections are based on the results...
Three Western Australian farming women who took their case to parliament this week believe the live sheep export industry has a sustainable future, beyond whichever major party forms government. Wongan Hills wheatbelt farmer Sue Middleton, Woodanilling sheep producer, Bindi Murray, and mixed farmer from Kendenup, Lyn Slade, made up the all-female delegation that opened...
THE snow-covered fields of Minnesota, North America, are a far cry from the rolling hills of West Gippsland where Kristie and Mick Connors run their livestock operation. However, a bad feed of lamb during their four-year term abroad was the catalyst for their “farm to fork” business, Tennessee Tasty. “When...
One of Australia’s biggest agribusiness companies, Webster Limited, has bounced back from the closure of its cotton venture, using funds from the $78 million sale of its water entitlements to diversify. Tandou Station, near Menindee in western New South Wales, will be turned into one of the biggest feedlots in the...
THE live sheep trade had one of its most unsettling and uncertain years in its history during 2018. The impact has been felt among exporters, sheep producers, transport operators, regional towns and feed mill operators – with the issue becoming a potential political timebomb in the lead-up to next year’s...
Asia’s salivating appetite for quality red meat is firming as a lucrative opportunity for WA producers, with the State’s small businesses tapping into burgeoning demand for high-end foods. Dorper Lamb owner Graeme Howie is expecting to double annual turnover in gross sales to $6 million within two years, citing mounting...
