Amelia Bernasconi

"Spirited bidding" sees a pen of lambs sell for $479.50/head at a regional New South Wales saleyard, but agents say this still may not be the top of the market.

An English businessman, on his first trip to Australia, has paid $2.8 million for a thoroughbred yearling, setting a new record.

Farmer and agronomist Ashlee Johnston had to juggle early mornings, late nights and 300km of travel each day if she wanted child care for her daughter. Then locals took action.

Safety fears and conspiracy theories about the feed additive Bovaer have been circulating on social media, but the maker and Australia's peak livestock body are defending its use.

Legendary race mare Winx gave birth to a "healthy and happy" foal in the early hours of this morning. The mare's first foal, a Pierro filly, sold for $10 million but experts say it is hard to put a value on her half-brother.

With an epicentre near BHP's Mount Arthur mine site, it is the fourth earthquake above a magnitude of 4 to hit the region in recent months.

Hundreds of GrainCorp workers in the state may refuse to load or unload grain trucks and trains during the approaching harvest unless they are given a pay rise.

The company operating this soon-to-be-closed coal mine says it's bound by outdated rules that hamper plans to leave a diverse and "positive legacy".

Being paid to get rid of weeds sounds like a farmer's ultimate dream, and it may just become reality for a group of graziers in rural Australia.

The first living foal of one Australian racing's all-time greats, sired by champion stallion Pierro, went under the hammer at the Inglis Easter yearling sale in Sydney.