Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIA’S Sheep Sustainability Framework is looking for business professionals with experience in wool processing and retail to join its steering group. The independent steering group guides the Framework in its..Read More
Sheep Central, June 12, 2024MEN’S Australian middleweight boxing champion Mitch Leek handled his first working dog auction at Casterton with aplomb and persistence at the weekend…Read More
Terry Sim, June 11, 2024Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ENVIRONMENTAL management was again the strongest driver of social license for rural industries in 2023, a new report has found…Read More
Sheep Central, March 25, 2024Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A ONE-STOP shop for livestock transport information has been launched by Meat & Livestock Australia at the combined Queensland and Australian Livestock Transporters’ Associations’ National Conference in Toowoomba this week…Read More
Sheep Central, March 22, 2024Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
FEDERAL, state, and territory agriculture ministers have today confirmed a commitment to jointly lead the renewal of the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy and to develop a National Statement on Animal Welfare…Read More
Sheep Central, March 8, 2024Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
A WESTERN Australian sheep farmer has been hit with a fine and legal costs exceeding $40,000 after pleading guilty to four counts of animal cruelty, in the Narrogin Magistrates Court last week…Read More
Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been withholding a key survey report on market mulesed/non-mulesed wool sentiments from the nation’s peak grower body, WoolProducers Australia…Read More
Sheep Central, November 13, 2023Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
ITALY’S wool trade has told Australia’s superfine growers it is facing a crisis with customers soon to cease accepting products originating from mulesed Merino sheep…Read More
Terry Sim, July 26, 2023Stock Handling & Animal Welfare
THE Wools of New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team is closing in on the last stages of its 2023 UK tour with hopes of scoring its first win in the last two tests against Wales…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, July 26, 2023NEW South Wales Police’s Rural Crime Prevention Team is investigating the theft of almost 300 sheep near Harden recently…Read More
Sheep Central, December 12, 2022AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation has been called out on its lack of targets on mulesing, non-mulesed wool production and sheep welfare, in an animal welfare group submission to the Australian National Audit Office…Read More
Terry Sim, November 30, 2022A VACCINATION in early spring with a booster soon after is looking like the delivery method for a vaccine to counter flystrike being developed by CSIRO…Read More
Liz Wells, August 18, 2022