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Record broken at North Cowie Ram Sale

NORTH Cowie’s annual ram sale, held at Warooka on Wednesday, July 30, fetched a record top price for the stud. The sale featured 79 Merino and Poll Merino rams in the main auction, with a further 50 offered in the mini auction. Additional rams...

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05 Aug 2025
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Wallaroo grain port a key asset as T-Ports goes to market

A UNIQUE grain-handling facility at Wallaroo is among key South Australian infrastructure assets now on the market as part of a sale by T-Ports — the first time the company has opened its doors to new investors. The business, which includes the...

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05 Aug 2025
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Bunge-Viterra merger finalised, creating global agribusiness giant

GLOBAL grain trader Viterra, a major player in South Australia’s grain supply chain, has officially merged with international agribusiness Bunge, in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest food and agriculture companies. The merger was...

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05 Aug 2025
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First Carbon Ready Ag Conference at Port Pirie

South Australia’s first-ever Carbon Ready Ag Conference is coming to the Northern and Yorke region on Wednesday, August 27. The event will be hosted by the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board at Port Pirie’s Northern Festival Theatre. Organisers...

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29 Jul 2025
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Fatigue culture costing lives

PUSHING through fatigue to get jobs done on the farm is one of the most under-recognised yet deadly risks in agriculture, according to Farmsafe Australia. As part of its Second Chances — Who Knows How Many You’ll Get campaign, Farmsafe is...

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Record broken at North Cowie Ram Sale

NORTH Cowie’s annual ram sale, held at Warooka on Wednesday, July 30, fetched a record top price for the stud. The sale featured 79 Merino and Poll Merino rams in the main auction, with a further 50 offered in the mini auction. Additional rams...

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05 Aug 2025
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Wallaroo grain port a key asset as T-Ports goes to market

A UNIQUE grain-handling facility at Wallaroo is among key South Australian infrastructure assets now on the market as part of a sale by T-Ports — the first time the company has opened its doors to new investors. The business, which includes the...

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05 Aug 2025
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Wallaroo grain port a key asset as T-Ports goes to market

A UNIQUE grain-handling facility at Wallaroo is among key South Australian infrastructure assets now on the market as part of a sale by T-Ports — the first time the company has opened its doors to new investors. The business, which includes the...

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05 Aug 2025
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Bunge-Viterra merger finalised, creating global agribusiness giant

GLOBAL grain trader Viterra, a major player in South Australia’s grain supply chain, has officially merged with international agribusiness Bunge, in a deal that creates one of the world’s largest food and agriculture companies. The merger was...

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05 Aug 2025
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National plan to boost soil health

A $10 MILLION project is set to transform how Australian agriculture manages soil health, creating a national framework to standardise monitoring and management across all sectors. Led by CSIRO, the five-year Soil Health Framework project will...

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24 Jun 2025
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Triple fungicide resistance detected in net form net blotch on Yorke Peninsula

BARLEY growers on Yorke Peninsula are being urged to review their disease management strategies following confirmation of triple fungicide resistance in the fungal disease, net form net blotch. Recent testing of barley samples from Corny Point...

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27 May 2025
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Record broken at North Cowie Ram Sale

NORTH Cowie’s annual ram sale, held at Warooka on Wednesday, July 30, fetched a record top price for the stud. The sale featured 79 Merino and Poll Merino rams in the main auction, with a further 50 offered in the mini auction. Additional rams...

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05 Aug 2025
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YP WELCOMES RAM BUYERS

YORKE Peninsula Merino Breeders extend a warm welcome to breeders and visitors to the 2025 ram auctions. YP stud breeders continue to produce early maturing, large-framed sheep with strong constitutions and excellent white, stylish, heavy-cutting...

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01 Jul 2025
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SA sheep producers are optimistic as confidence rebounds

SOUTH Australian sheep producers are entering the second half of 2025 with renewed optimism, following a sharp turnaround in rural confidence across the state, according to Rabobank’s latest Rural Confidence Survey. While drought and seasonal...

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01 Jul 2025
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Rams to thrive in any climate

Advertising Promotion NORTH Cowie stud at Warooka aims to breed plain-bodied structurally correct sheep, carrying wools in the 18.5 to 21-micron range, all making our clients’ surplus sheep in the saleyards extremely desirable. In 2024, North...

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01 Jul 2025
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Poll Merinos and Dohnes on offer at Babirra

Advertising Promotion THE Farrow family will hold their 64th annual on-property ram auction at Babirra Poll Merino and Dohne Stud, Stansbury, on Tuesday, August 12. “The 30 Poll Merino rams we will offer for auction this year will again have...

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01 Jul 2025
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Jandebrey rams for best prime lambs

Advertising Promotion JANDEBREY White Suffolk Stud, located in Sandilands and run by Geoff and Tania Stock, was founded in 1994. Since then, Geoff and Tania have gained a reputation for producing reliable flock rams that are sound in structure, have...

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01 Jul 2025