Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER

Get the latest news to your email inbox FREE!

REGISTER
Friday, August 8, 2025
Home Rural Page 2

Rural

Weather no deterrent at Livestock Exchange

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 24 Wild weather over much of the supplying areas did not deter vendors as agents offered 18,850 lambs...

Sheepish view of Iceland

This week’s Over the Fence comes directly from Iceland where I have been examining the condition of Icelandic livestock, mainly sheep, which have recently lambed...

March shorn merinos set saleyards record

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 17 Numbers increased substantially as agents offered 10,000 lambs and 1500 sheep. Quality was generally fair to good...

Plovers and lapwings

WHAT BIRD IS THAT with Paul Taylor Occasionally, names of some birds are changed. Classification can be altered with recent advances in ornithology, resulting in...

Heavy lambs a highlight with new saleyard records

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep. -June 10 Numbers reduced significantly as agents offered 4304 lambs and 425 sheep. Quality was again extremely mixed, however some...

Vater Machinery Season Break Competition called!

I am going to call it, this years break is as dodgy as last years and I am calling it Sunday, June 8. There...

Rural Aid relief bound for Eudunda

With many communities across the Mid North continue to battle drought conditions, Rural Aid is delivering a Farm Recovery Event to Eudunda from from...

New record lamb prices at Dublin

SA LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE DUBLIN REPORT Sheep - June 3 Another mixed quality offering came forward as agents offered 7500 lambs and 1800 sheep. The usual trade...

Season break not called yet

Finally some rain, but still not enough to declare a break. But it would appear that hopefully the season is on the turn. There...

Blessings upon the farmers

Adrian Cook has provided an account from Arise a Farmer's Hope, held across four days on May 14-17 at his property north of Mintaro....

Roosters to begin tough run home

The North Clare Roosters have got a tough run home to stay in the four starting with the Eudunda-Robertstown Southern Saints at Clare this...