Kate Dowler

A member of one of Australia’s best-known meat industry families is leading a global push to get more women employed in roles in the food value chain.

A study examining the benefits of multispecies pastures to ryegrass dominant pastures has found no difference between the two in soil carbon levels or soil biota.

A wool grower who has created a market for sustainable garden products from her 5500 crossbreds has been named as a state finalist in a major award, recognising the impact rural woman have.

A Poll Dorset ram sold in Tasmania on Monday for $25,200, a season topper for rams so far this spring.

Leading South Australian cattle producer and conservationist James Darling has died aged 77.

Nine years after the devastating Pinery fire destroyed all 900 of their sheep on the Mattschoss family’s property, Alex and Georgia and their four children brought a sample of their new stud’s genetics to Australia’s biggest sheep and wool show.

A Poll Merino ram sold for $25,000 at Bendigo’s multi-vendor Merino ram sale. 

A Poll Dorset sire that is a “great example of the breed’s ability to provide the early growth the industry needs to keep costs low” took out the prestigious Interbreed Short Wool Supreme Exhibit at Bendigo today. 

The Locke family at Holbrook in NSW are not afraid to change their enterprise mix to suit the market and climate.

Wool prices continue to disappoint growers and brokers and now sit at their lowest level in four years.