HAMILTON agents yarded 11,840 lambs this week, a decrease of 7660 units.

NUMBERS increased slightly in Hamilton last week, with 239 cattle put forward, including 172 cows, 52 trade and 15 bulls and the usual buyers were present and operated to good competition.

GRAIN growers have been urged to consider their disease management plans for their winter crops, using Agriculture Victoria’s 2022 Cereal Disease Guide.

VOTING for the 2022 Dairy Poll opened earlier this week to all dairy service levy payers.

CENTRAL Queensland University’s precision livestock management research team has moved one step closer to predicting and detect calving events in extensive grazing herds using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).

CLOVEN Hills Composite sheep stud, Nareen celebrated another highly successful sale last month with ram lambs selling to another stud record top of $4800.

BY all accounts, 2022 is going to be another good year for wine lovers. At least, where Western Victorian grapes are concerned.

MASSIVE competition for Boonaroo Angus’ beef genetics saw all previous records out the window, as the top price of $34,000 was reached twice at the stud’s annual bull sale.

IT was another successful store sale at Mortlake on Thursday, February 17, with 4839 cattle yarded.

A REPORT by Food and Fibre Great South Coast has revealed that south-west Victoria’s food and fibre sector could add $40 million worth of value to the local economy by increasing its agricultural water usage by 10 per cent.