Image sourced from GRDC With winter not so far away farmers will have to consider the frost impact on their crops. Frost occurs on clear nights throughout the winter season when the air … [Read more...]
Sowing Is Under Way For Central West Farmers
The recent rain saw farmers quick to be on the paddocks to begin sowing or preparation for the year with the soil finally having a bit of moisture in it. After chatting to a local farmer in between … [Read more...]
Bees Give Up Searching For Food
Drizzling honey into your morning tea or onto your toast in the morning may be no longer if the bee population continues to suffer. A new study done by the University of Western Australia into the … [Read more...]
Jemalong Wool Weekly Market Update
The NRI had a modest 3 cent rise this week to close at 1521 cents. The market was again led by the finer mi- crons with 18.0 micron and finer gaining a further 10-30 cents. 18.5 to 19.5 micron were … [Read more...]
Jemalong Wool Weekly Market Update
A strong start in Melbourne on Tues- day had the finer microns outperform- ing the rest of the market jumping by 40-50 cents, although cracks started to appear with the broader microns which eased … [Read more...]
Barber’s Pole Alert
Barber’s Pole is a harmful roundworm and can be fatal for all sheep and goats. Adult worms can be inhibited inside the sheep or goat for varying periods of time and can resume activity when the … [Read more...]
Jemalong Wool Market Report
Friday 13th January 2017 Click to enlarge … [Read more...]
Harvest 2016
Harvest for 2016, if the weather holds will hopefully be completed by Christmas. The rest of this week, weather wise looks fine, so many of our local farmers will be finished just on Christmas. Local … [Read more...]
Jemalong Wool Weekly Market Update
More than 55,000 bales were offered in the final sale of the year. Merino fleece generally finished the week 10 to 20 cents above levels recorded in the previous sale. The skirting market … [Read more...]
Harvest Is Here
With the paddocks slowly drying out tractors, trucks and headers have finally been able to get onto the paddocks to start the 2016 harvest. When talking about the yield of this years crops Manager Rob … [Read more...]