Nov 22, 2024
Do you think it’s time?
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Do you think it’s time? - I see where the right-to-repair argument is coming back into the spotlight.…
Nov 20, 2024
Mutton lift at Ballarat.
Yarding: 61,692 Another big yarding at Ballarat with 43,119 lambs penned. Quality slipped over the yarding, a large portion were dry in the skins and lacked shape and finish. Limited numbers of heavy trade and export lambs were on…
Nov 20, 2024
AWE Richards the Butcher
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast AWE Richards the Butcher - There’s a Butcher shop out Bordertown (SA) way that has been going for 80…
Nov 19, 2024
Record wheat imports forecast for Morocco…
By Peter McMeekin Severe drought decimated cereal production in Morocco this year with the final numbers proving even worse than the dire pre-harvest government expectations. This will increase the quantity of wheat that Moroccan…
Nov 19, 2024
Very good signs at Bendigo
Yarding - 34,630 Dearer market across all the main grades of stock today. Price rises of $10 to $15/head were recorded for most lamb and mutton categories, some grades improving $20/head compared to a week ago. Demand was the driver,…
Nov 18, 2024
Ballasting your Agricultural Tyres
By Phil Rowntree - Farm Tender - 0428 659 056 How often do you change ballasting and or tyre pressures on your Tractor? IF, VF, LSW, rag, radial, 4, 6, 8, and 10 ply tyres. Width, profile and size: what do I need, and what's…
Nov 17, 2024
Scammers strike
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Scammers strike - We keep hearing about these Farm Machinery scams and I can't work out why people…
Nov 16, 2024
The great Chickpea race
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast The great Chickpea race - Something big is going on in Southern Queensland and Northern NSW that's…
Nov 15, 2024
Rises all round at Wagga Wagga
Yarding - 59,800 Severe storms swept through key regions yesterday, leading to a notable decrease in lamb and sheep supplies. Agents reported a shortfall of 10,000 lambs and 5,000 sheep to what was anticipated. This reduction in supply…
Nov 14, 2024
10 chances to win a new John Deere Tractor
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast 10 chances to win a new John Deere Tractor - I am giving away 10 tickets ($100 per ticket) for the Active Farmers…
Nov 14, 2024
Cancellation of FarmTender2025
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Cancellation of FarmTender2025 - It’s with great regret that we have decided to cancel FarmTender2025…
Nov 14, 2024
Impeccable timing
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Impeccable timing - There's an interesting article floating around about what's happened post-deal…
Nov 13, 2024
Hay Report - Do we have enough now?
For the fortnight up to the 13th of November 2024. By Dwain Duxson I went on a trip from Central Victoria up the Calder and Sturt Hwy to the Riverland of SA (Berri) and then back down to Pinnaroo to Ouyen and down the…
Nov 13, 2024
We might be the ghosts one day
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast We might be the ghosts one day - I had many replies to the story about ghost jobs. Take a read here. There…
Nov 13, 2024
Heavy Lambs the shining light at Ballarat
Yarding: 62,279 Lamb numbers jumped again this week to 43,589 penned. The quality was patchy with the heavy and extra heavy lambs presenting in excellent condition with limited numbers yarded. Quality dropped away over the trade weights…
Nov 12, 2024
Australian Grain exports suffer at the hand of drought…
By Peter McMeekinThe grain marketing season in Australia concluded at the end of September, and with last week’s release of that month’s export data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics came the twelfth and final chapter…
Nov 12, 2024
Two speed market at Bendigo
Yarding - 38,870 Lift in numbers to nearly 30,000 lambs or about 6000 more than a week ago. Quality was very mixed and there was a lot of young lambs which showed signs of dryness and having slipped in condition. The bulk of the young…
Nov 09, 2024
Ghost jobs
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Ghost jobs - As Farmers, our costs have risen over the years. Things like rates, insurance, taxes, electricity,…
Nov 09, 2024
For all the tea in China, no Kenya....
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast For all the tea in China Kenya... - I found this article (in dark below, take a read first) last night and…
Nov 08, 2024
Levelling out?
To receive this newsletter in your inbox each day, just register with Farm Tender here. By Dwain Duxson - An Ag Enthusiast Levelling out? - I was thinking the other day about how we have made dramatic gains in the number of Lambs…
