Tag: sheep

Agriculture ‘pinnacle’ returns

It has been six long years but the pinnacle in Australian sheep, lamb and wool - LambEx - finally returns to the agricultural calendar...

Saleyard bill split

Mount Gambier City Council will meet today to discuss contributing $77,000 to the Grant District Council’s Saleyards Transformation Project. The matter has been listed for...

Livestock supply glut impacts prices

Downward pressure has been placed on South Australia’s cattle prices due to a number of farmers in Northern Australia destocking their properties of livestock...

Costs sharing to meet livestock ID regulations

As part of the national transition to electronic identification (eID) for sheep and farmed goats, the State Government has released details and guidelines of...

Lions roar to action

The Lions Club of Mount Gambier has launched an initiative to help put food on the table of people struggling with the increasing cost...

Meat sales ‘beef up’

Shoppers are increasingly putting red meat in their trolley as retail prices push back against the inflation trend being seen more generally at the...

Livestock sector beefed up

South Australia’s livestock industry is set to benefit from an injection of up to $6.2m of industry funds to support the sector. The funds collected...

Sheep sale changes to curb footrot spread

Changes to the marketing and inspection of sheep saleyards in the South East came into effect last week. Under the changes, endorsed by the Department...

Original online tag innovator continues to roll out new changes

AAA Tags became Australia’s first “online” retailer of Sheep and Goat tags in 2005, an exciting and indeed courageous move at that time! Now, of...

Exporter headlines expo

Founder of Fletcher International Exports, and a renowned face within the wool industry, Roger Fletcher is set to open Sheepvention Rural Expo on August...

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...

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...

Saleyards project gets ‘mooving’

The Mount Gambier and District Saleyards Transformation Project has hit another milestone, with the announcement of the successful tenderer for the projects concept design. The...

Sheep flock to reach new levels

The Australian sheepmeat industry is set for another bumper year in 2023 as the national sheep flock grows to its highest level since 2007...

Rain increases sheep disease risk

Sheep producers are being advised to monitor sheep for lameness following the exceptionally wet spring across large parts of South Australia, with 20 cases...