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Stockman keep bulls settled at the CQLX Gracemere Rockhampton Brahman Week Cattle Sale. Photo: Chris Ison / The Morning Bulletin

Impact of drought in west felt by breeders across CQ

THE Callide Valley is producing its own pasture, but a few hundred kilometres away, grazing land resembles ploughed ground.

Young steers in demand

NUMBERS increased by 435 to total 996 head at the sale.

Teys called for endorsement of ChAFTA “without delay”

AUSTRALIA'S second largest beef processor has thrown its support behind the China – Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA), signed in June.

Weaners top at $2.98 at Gympie cattle sale

A GOOD-quality yarding of 1605 cattle at Sullivan Livestock’s Gympie Cattle sale on August 3 saw the market dearer for all descriptions.

RODEO READY: CRCA’s Dale Bougoure and A Mile in Their Shoes president Jack Lumby ahead of this weekend’s Proserpine Lions Rodeo for Suicide Prevention.

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Rodeo for suicide prevention a chance to buck the blues

AS WITH so much else that is good in this world, the road to Friday’s Proserpine Lions Rodeo for Suicide Prevention began with a terrible tragedy.

Rural Fire Service Queensland Caloundra area officer Acting Inspector Andrew Allan said the season normally began in September.

Warning: Prepare your property as fire season heats up

WARWICK Selling Agents yarded 1492 lambs and hoggets, and 419 sheep at the weekly sale yesterday.

Cheaper market at weekly sheep sale

A WETTER than average winter this year has contributed to the rise of the toxic plant pimelea west of St George.

Toxic pimelea plant is on the rise west of St George

Horticulture

SUSTAINABLE MOVE: Andrea Maxwell at the Armstrong Street Community Garden in Berserker.

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Sustainability is key with new CQU permaculture courses

SUSTAINABILITY is being tackled head-on with world-leading courses in permaculture design being introduced by CQUniversity from next year.

NORTHERN Rivers beef and sugar farmers are both poised to benefit from a new international trade deal negotiated by the Federal Government.

Cattle farmers win with Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal

GOGANGO grazier Ann Kirk is “opposed 200%” to a mega dam at The Gap for a couple of reasons.

'They haven't done their homework': grazier opposes dam

PAPUA New Guinea has banned the importation of select Australian fruits and vegetables ahead of a plan to support their domestic growers.

Ban to impact on vegetable growers

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FARMSCAN AG AWARDED: Farmscan AG director Jason Stone with the Environmental Solutions Award won at the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards.

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Toowoomba agriculture company earns award for exports

A TOOWOOMBA business has been recognised among the state’s best exporters.

FORMER Gympie dairy farmers, the Anderson family were not alone in the crisis that followed national milk market de-regulation.

Dairy farmer's fight-back strategy pays off

DRINKING fresh milk will be a thing of the past if something is not done to help dairy farmers get a fair deal.

Dairy industry begs supermarkets to stop milking farmers

A CHINESE company has purchased a southern Queensland cattle property for $28 million from a United Kingdom-based group.

Chinese buy southern Queensland property for $28 million

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YOUNG CANEFARMERS: From left: Danny Lickiss of Riley's Hill and Martin Walsh of Woodburn are well below the average age of sugarcane farmers which is currently at 64 years old. Photo Samantha Elley / Rural Weekly

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Isis Sugar Crush Report

Isis Sugar Crush Report

Bundaberg Sugar Crush Report

Bundaberg sugar crush report

Maryborough Mill crushing

Maryborough mill crushing

THE Bundaberg Sugar mills processed 88,344 tonnes of cane during week 14, bringing the year to date total to 1,117,376 tonnes or 64% of the estimated 2015 crop.

Crush reaches 64%

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