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WEB3 days ago · Australian Food & Agriculture sells vast NSW portfolio. THE privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million…. Emma Alsop and Linda Rowley, September 2, 2024.
Merino crossbred crowned Australia's best lamb - Sheep Central
WEBTerry Sim July 16, 2014. Proud Australia’s Best Lamb Competition winners at Lambex, from left, Alex, Paul and John McGowan. IT’S official – Australia’s best lamb this year is a grain-fed Merino crossbred. South Australian branded lamb producers, the McGowan family, have produced the best rack in the inaugural Australia’s Best Lamb ...
Kilcoy Global Foods buys VIC lamb and beef processor Hardwicks
WEBJon Condon July 2, 2021. QUEENSLAND grain-fed beef export processor Kilcoy Global Foods has finalised its purchase of Victorian beef and lamb processor Hardwicks Meats. Rumours of the deal have been widespread across the industry for the past week and staff at Hardwick’s Kyneton plant were informed of the change of ownership this morning.
Welcome to Sheep Central!
WEBSheep Central July 9, 2014. WELCOME to Sheep Central, the first and only online daily news service dedicated solely to Australia’s wool, lamb and sheepmeat industries. Sheep Central is a sister publication to Beef Central, launched …
Sheep lot-feeding and confinement systems gain traction
WEBNov 13, 2019 · State-wide interest in lot-feeding. Sheep and lambs in a confinement area. Sheep Solutions consultant Geoff Duddy said these systems were increasingly being used on-farm to reduce pasture and topsoil loss in four main windows: during dry times, including the lead-up to the traditional autumn break; to manage ewes prior to and during joining;
Tattykeel Australian White lamb results highlight research needs
WEBJul 17, 2017 · Malau-Aduli said the Tattykeel Australian White lamb he tested had a minimum melting point of 35.5 degrees, averaged 37 degrees and had a range of 35.5-41 degrees. Most other Australian sheep meat he has tested had fat melting points of 42-48 degrees Celsius. After 27 years of research, he considered the Australian White meat to …
Live export value to WA sheep industry highlighted in report
WEBSheep Central September 18, 2019. Sheep being loaded for live export from Western Australia. LIVE sheep exports generate about $100 million a year for Australia’s producers, underpinned by about 30 percent of Western Australia’s flock turn-off going into the trade in the past five years, a recent analysis has found.
Woolworths restructures red meat business across Australia
WEBJon Condon February 26, 2021. AUSTRALIA’s largest supermarket retailer, Woolworths, is restructuring its red meat business, forming a stand-alone business called GreenStock. The move is designed to better organise the company’s end-to-end meat supply chain, it said. GreenStock will bring together team members involved in Woolworths Group ...
New Zealand to ban mulesing as Australian option is commercialised
WEBSep 10, 2018 · The process involving applying liquid nitrogen to the breech area of sheep is in a pre-commercialisation stage, and comes as New Zealand regulates to ban mulesing and tail-stripping from October 1 this year. Dr Steinfort said his newly-developed cryogenic process is being refined for initial commercialisation to start in 2019.
Victorian sheep vet raises scabby mouth outbreak alert
WEBNov 24, 2021 · Scabby mouth, or orf, is a condition caused by a virus that usually affects sheep around their mouths, but can, in the right conditions, seriously affect the hooves of unvaccinated lambs and sheep. Bendigo sheep veterinarian Tristan Jubb said he is seeing mobs of young sheep, this year’s and last year’s lambs, with 3-30 percent of animals ...