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6 days ago · MLA estimates $74.3 million benefit from adoption programs. MEAT & Livestock Australia adoption programs delivered $74.3 million in annual net benefits to more than 10,000 sheep, beef and goat producers in 2023-24, the research, development and marketing body has estimated…. Read More. Sheep Central, October 4, 2024. Weekly Property Reports.
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6 days ago · KEY wool industry services organisation the Australian Wool Exchange has announced the upcoming retirement of its chief executive officer Mark Grave effective June 2025…. Read More. 1. Sheep Central, October 9, 2024. Sheep meat.
Feb 1, 2021 · Shearing Contractors Association of Australia. www.scaa.org.au Enquiries: call 0412 600 586 email: scaa@scaa.org.au. +15%. SCAA Recommended Pay Rate Schedule as at 1 Feb 2020 based on Pastoral Award +15%. print edition 20210127. ( See PASTORAL Award for Actual Award rates )Ba. ed on Award Rates below Effective from 1 Nov.
New National Vendor Declarations now available - Sheep Central
Sheep Central July 2, 2020. SHEEP, cattle and goat producers and other value chain stakeholders are reminded that new versions of the Livestock Production Assurance National Vendor Declarations for all species are now available, identified by version number 0720. The LPA NVD communicates the food safety and treatment status of every animal ...
Most shearing contractors back 15pc pay rate increase
Feb 3, 2021 · Most members of the Shearing Contractors Association of Australia have adopted a 15pc pay rate increases to help them attract and retain staff from 1 February to 30 March this year. The increase means the pay rates with participating SCAA members would rise to a flock shearing rate of $3.73 a head, to $70.60 per two-hour run for an experienced ...
Australia’s average wool cut and production to increase
Apr 28, 2023 · The AWPFC’s first forecast of shorn wool production for the 2023/24 season is 332 Mkg greasy, a 1.4pc increase on the 2022-23 forecast as a result of modest increases in the number of sheep shorn (up 1.7pc). The Committee expects the average cut per head to remain at 4.58 kg greasy which is at an historically high level – in the 87th ...
Should Australia expand wool scouring to limit FMD impacts?
Terry Sim November 2, 2022. AUSTRALIA needs to be able to scour more than half its annual wool clip to ensure market access is not compromised if Foot and Mouth Disease breaks out, two analysts have concluded. Global AgriTrends analyst Simon Quilty and Merino International principal Grant Hutchins believe the cost of increasing scouring ...
SkinTraction alternative to sheep mulesing passes muster with …
Jun 17, 2015 · The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority on May 27 registered Cobbett Technologies’ SkinTraction as a one-off treatment for sheep kept for fibre production that are one-year-old or older and with a liveweight of 30kg-plus. But the APVMA has not registered SkinTraction for use on wet or daggy sheep.
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Kilcoy Global Foods buys VIC lamb and beef processor Hardwicks
Jon Condon July 2, 2021. QUEENSLAND grain-fed beef export processor Kilcoy Global Foods has finalised its purchase of Victorian beef and lamb processor Hardwicks Meats. Rumours of the deal have been widespread across the industry for the past week and staff at Hardwick’s Kyneton plant were informed of the change of ownership this morning.