Tag: farming

Water plan information flows

The Limestone Coast Landscape Board is conducting a series of stakeholder information sessions to support the review of the Lower Limestone Coast Water Allocation...

Prices reflect market challenges

After mid April’s national cattle yarding of 55,444 head (54% or 19,000 head above the 2023 weekly average), cattle numbers tightened substantially last week,...

Australian lamb exports reach record levels

Last year was a record year for lamb exports, with the 284,257 tonnes exported the highest on record, as was the $3.4b in revenue...

Millicent saleyards support

AMillicent lobby group has again called on Wattle Range Council to retain the local cattle saleyards. The Millicent and Surrounds Health Support Group has repeatedly...

Ag hub launch

The new Agriculture Hub at Mount Gambier’s TAFE SA campus has been officially opened by Minister for Education, Training and Skills Blair Boyer with...

Company grows farm holdings

Almost 200 acres of prime grazing land at Mount McIntyre has been bought by one of the state’s largest family-owned companies for an undisclosed...

Scholarship grows next-gen rural leaders

Mount Gambier student Alice Alexander was recently awarded a 2023 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship. Miss Alexander, who is studying a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the...

Farmers expected in droves

Hamilton’s annual Sheepvention Rural Expo will return for another year this August. Following a number of years trialling a three-day format, this year the event...

Carbon farming grows resilience

More than $600,000 will be awarded to projects helping to build the carbon farming market in South Australia, including several in the South East. Part...

Water allocation consultation

Following three years of review and consultation the draft Padthaway Water Allocation Plan is now open for a two-month public and community consultation period. Community...

Livestock future focus

Six years since the inception of the world-leading Australian Beef Sustainability Framework (ABSF) to track key indicators of sustainability across the beef industry, a...

Farmers hoof sheep interstate

Acrossbench MP has aired concerns that sheep are not being sold in Mount Gambier and other South East saleyards but instead going straight to...

Emissions tracking tool

Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has launched an online, web-based greenhouse gas (GHG) calculator based on the Sheep and Beef Greenhouse Accounting Framework (SB-GAF)...

Weather impacts on summer lamb sales

The latest survey data from sheep and wool producers shows that floods and weather hampered lamb selling in the final months of 2022, but...