Farmers urge for common sense approach to wild dog and dingo control
Farmers have urged the state government to take a common sense approach to wild dog and dingo control as changes to Victorian measures put livestock at increasing risk of attack.
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Accident rate rises as 14 crashes involving livestock transports in first four months of 2024
The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) is urging all parties in the Livestock supply chain across the country to follow safer transport practices, following 14 crashes involving livestock in the first four months of 2024.
Australia facing significant shortage of veterinarians in rural and regional areas
The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) welcomes the release of the NSW Parliamentary Committee report from its Inquiry into the veterinary workforce shortage in NSW.
Watch for the signs of hypothermia in livestock during cold weather
As we head into the colder months, it pays to remember that livestock can experience cold stress and hypothermia that can cause death if not managed and treated.
Sugar hit a slap in the face for regional communities in Murray-Darling Basin
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) says the Albanese Labor Government’s plan to take water from food production in the Murray Darling Basin Plan in exchange for a $300 million sugar hit is yet another slap in the face for regional communities.
Mixed seasonal conditions see farm sector confidence take a U-turn
Mixed seasonal conditions across the country – coupled with economic pressures – have seen the nation’s farm sector confidence take a U-turn in the latest quarter, declining after a resurgence in optimism at the start of the year.
Farmers expected to plant 23.55 million hectares of winter crops this year
Australia’s farmers are expected to plant 23.55 million hectares to winter crops this year – up more than three per cent on 2023 – despite a mixed start to the season across the country, Rabobank says in its 2024/25 Australian Winter Crop Outlook.
Golden opportunity to secure proven working Kelpie genetics at Kirkcaldy stud dispersal
One of the nation’s foremost Kelpie breeders and trainers, Peter Austin, is stepping into retirement, opening a golden and rare opportunity to secure young dogs from proven bloodlines over generations and fully trained on sheep, cattle and goats.
China reinstates export approvals for five beef export processing plants
Cattle Australia has welcomed China’s reinstatement of export approvals for five out of seven Australian beef export processing plants, which have been suspended from supplying product to China since 2020.
New funding released to improve greenhouse gas accounting in agriculture
Farmers have urged the federal government to continue its efforts to better understand the net emissions of the agricultural industry as new funding is released to improve greenhouse gas accounting.
Australian Livestock Exporters Council announces fight to beat “deeply unjust plan”
The Australian Livestock Exporters Council is sending a clear message to farmers in Western Australia as well as to the Albanese Government – We’re not going anywhere!
Live sheep export ban sends warning to cattle industry and entire farm sector
Australian agriculture, including its more than 52,000 grass-fed cattle producers, is fed up with being used as political currency to buy fringe votes and appalled by the Animal Justice Party’s (AJP) confirmation it secured a preference deal with the Albanese Government to hasten the end of live sheep exports by sea.
