CASTERTON’S annual premier working dog auction is paying dividends once again for the community, with 20 local organisations presented with their ‘thank you’ cheques at the Kelpie Association’s annual general meeting.
LOVERS of all things vintage will be in their element at the Hotspur Recreation Reserve tomorrow and Sunday, when the Southern Vintage Engine & Tractor Pull Association, along with the Hotspur community, hold the (Hotspur) Smoky River Vintage Rally.
THE saying that Australia was built on the sheep’s back will be familiar to many of us. This was true not only in pioneer times but also until the 1950s.
THE final Young Dairy Network event of 2022 saw attendees head to the Newton family farm at Princetown, where the topic of the evening was succession planning, and ‘Stepping Up’ into the dairy industry.
THE importance of working dogs to Australian farmers and property owners cannot be underestimated with more than 270,000 stock-herding dogs across rural Australia, and Frank Finger has shared his top tips for training working dogs.
A DIGITISED version of a greenhouse gas (GHG) web-based calculator for sheep and beef producers was launched by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) on Tuesday.
LIVE animal exports are back in the headlines after the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry minister, Murray Watt, announced consultation was underway to end live sheep exports.
JUST two years after their parents were named champions at the Wando Vale Sheepdog Trials, the next generation of Celtic Kelpies breeders is making its mark on the time-honoured event.
BOSTOCKS Creek farmer Jack Hutt learnt a lot about how New Zealand farmers deal with rain and high stocking rates – but he returned from a study tour with a better appreciation of how Australians farm.
