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Interstate markets seeing early lambs

IT IS that time of the year when we start to look out for the start of the new lamb selling season in the early markets in NSW and Victoria.

Early spring lambs are coming on interstate

Farming’s quiet innovators

ACROSS Australian agriculture, innovation often happens quietly.

Simon Burgess, Trailblazer Supreme Award Winner 2022

One-pass pipe layer a ripper

HOW many passes does it take you to lay poly pipe? Did you know there’s an easier way?

Delmade hydraulic deep digger ripper pipe layer

Nutrien Ag Solutions

Pump for all tasks

THE team at Brierley’s – well known for supplying quality Aussie fire pumps, high pressure water blasters and trash pump – now include spraying equipment as part of their range of farm equipment.

Spraymaster Kappa

Recess is time to reset and make plans

A RATHER lacklustre close to the auction season last week with some buyers absent, some tentative and only the largest topmakers really showing any desire to pick up quantity, although some of the Italian fraternity did step up and accumulate quite a few bales of their better types.

Italian buyers are still active

Good numbers of quality store cattle

Last week agents yarded 1,504 store cattle at Powranna in the July store sale.

Cattle sales

Nutrien Ag Solutions

Holding firm but are we at the peak?

THE Australian wool market was slightly firmer again in USD, but the vagaries of the currency market meant that prices were down slightly in local currency terms as the Aussie Dollar firmed against the Greenback.

Colourful wools

Cattle prices hold despite quotas

ALTHOUGH there has been some commentary around filling beef quotas to China and South Korea, cattle markets right up and down the East Coast have been resilient with prices holding at high levels.

Aussie steak

Wool market finds its base

10th July 2026 AS expected, the Australian wool market found a base this week and firmed up slightly.

Processing wool tops

Nutrien Ag Solutions

EID: it’s all about performance

FOR most producers, EID started as something that simply had to be done. It was about getting tags in, meeting requirements, and making sure everything lined up properly. Once that was sorted, the expectation was that the system would just take care of itself.

Tagging sheep