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Forests NSW wild dog trapper featured at PestSmart

4:00 AM | FORESTS NSW wild dog trapper Mark Goldspink’s skills were featured in Albury at the first-ever Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre’s PestSmart roadshow.

Livestock - Cattle

Sewing his way to success

4:00 AM | GUNNEDAH isn’t the only town able to boast a fashion icon in model Miranda Kerr, with the spotlight recently turned on Moree’s up-and-coming fashion designer Dylan Cooper.

Agribusiness and General - General

‘We need farmers’

4:00 AM | GOVERNOR-General Quentin Bryce used her Australia Day address to highlight the importance of careers in agriculture and the vitality of farmers for all Australians.

Agribusiness and General - General

Force gets old horses back on course

11 Feb 12 | MORE THAN 20,000 Thoroughbred foals were born in Australia last spring - 6737 of them in NSW - and the reality is that not all of them will be racetrack stars.

Agribusiness and General - General

11 Feb 12 | NEW research indicating oil from the Australian native tea tree is effective in treating flystrike and lice infestations in sheep could provide wool producers with a natural insecticide to which lice are unlikely to be able to develop any immunity.

Agribusiness and General - General

Diversity at Glen Innes

11 Feb 12 | MINIMAL tillage and a focus on enhancing soil condition while consecutively reducing inputs and increasing yields, has been part of a diversity improvement program critical to the long-term sustainability of the Burridge family’s Northern Tablelands mixed enterprise.

Agribusiness and General - General

Merino ewes to $216 at Urana

10 Feb 12 | GENUINE Riverina-bred sheep commanded the top money at the 77th annual special sheep sale at Urana today.

Livestock - Sheep

Heaviest rain in 15 years floods Penrith

10 Feb 12 | PENRITH experienced flooding overnight as more than 100mm of rain fell, its heaviest in 15 years.

Agribusiness and General - General

Merino buyers spoilt for choice at GSSM

10 Feb 12 | MERINO buyers still rolling in confidence from the buoyant sheep and lamb prices and regular spikes in the wool market in the past 12 months came armed with the cash to buy quality stud rams at last week’s Great Southern Supreme Merino ram sale at Canberra.

Livestock - Sheep

Santos confirms Narrabri CSG leaks

10 Feb 12 | FOUR separate leaks of polluted water have now taken place at a coal seam gas drilling site near Narrabri in northern NSW since June, the resources company Santos confirmed. | Govt investigates CSG saline ... | CSG under the microscope

Agribusiness and General - General

Sticking to Merinos pays off

10 Feb 12 | THE challenge of breeding good Merinos has always stuck with Barry Carruthers, who enjoys producing sheep that consistently grow “good genuine medium wool fleeces”, soft handling and plenty of it.

Livestock - Sheep

Avocados’ catch-22

10 Feb 12 | WHILE avocado growers on the NSW North Coast and in South East Queensland take a break from production, consumers can look forward to adding fruit from northern Qld to their trolleys and baskets, depending on supply. |

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Horticulture - Vegetables

Farmers’ grain stoush

10 Feb 12 | A PUSH from within the State’s peak farmer body to dump its own grains committee has failed. |

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Agribusiness and General - General

Mungadal takes out Peppin Shaw

09 Feb 12 | A TWO man show has snagged the top gong in the prestigious Riverina Peppin Shaw ewe competition.

Livestock - Sheep

Floods dampen horticulture outlook

09 Feb 12 | HORTICULTURE industries have copped rainy weather setbacks as disease pressures have escalated, the early wine grape harvest has bogged down and an estimated $20 million has been wiped from Queensland's table grape crop yield.

Horticulture - Fruit

Flooding rains headed for SE NSW

09 Feb 12 | FLOODING rain is likely in southeastern New South Wales, the ACT and eastern Victoria in the next few days, starting as early as today, which has prompted the issue of a flood watch.

Agribusiness and General - General

Flood warnings set to continue

09 Feb 12 | More heavy rain stretching to the south-east of NSW is predicted until Saturday, prompting new flood warnings and hampering efforts to clean up areas already washed out.

Agribusiness and General - General

Untested mare tops Tamworth at $54,000

09 Feb 12 | A FOUR-year-old mare yet to compete in a campdraft achieved the top price of $54,000 at this years' Landmark Classic Campdraft Sale at Tamworth.

Livestock - Other

Down came the rain and washed the spiders out

09 Feb 12 | IF you thought that white blanket across this road east of Moree was fog, think again. |

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Agribusiness and General - General

Balonne’s bank buster

09 Feb 12 | FARMERS along the Narran, Culgoa, Bokhara and Birrie river systems in the State’s far north are preparing for what are expected to be among the biggest flows since European settlement. |

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Agribusiness and General - General