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Auction of Josef Chromy vineyard equipment coming up

Powranna and Smithton sales plus winery supplies and vineyard equipment among Tassie sales.

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Stock numbers a key factor for spring outlook

LAST week agents yarded 1,217 cattle at the Powranna monthly store sale which are good numbers for this time of the year.

Powranna sale

State’s big divide

MORE widespread rains throughout South Australia, Victoria and Southern NSW. has gone a long way to setting up a very good early spring with many falls of between 20 and 60mm across many regions.

Pen of sheep

Good prices bring cattle to saleyards

IT HAS been an interesting couple of weeks in the livestock industry with prices either moving sideways or easing as some pressures appear to arrive.

Cattle in the saleyard

Here's your easy check-in on what's for sale around the state

Powranna sales, fodder, dairy cows and more

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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

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