A Wedgecarrup family has been left with little more than the clothes on their backs after their 100-year-old home was destroyed in a terrifying bushfire.
Jessica Evensen and Joe Spagnolo
Conditions remain ‘challenging’ in the farm machinery industry but dealers are expecting more sales and an expansion of the workforce in all States except SA, according to the latest nationwide survey.
Adam Poulsen
Albany Police are appealing for public assistance after multiple railway track signal devices, that have the potential to detonate, were stolen from a train line near Elleker on Thursday.
Georgia Campion
Aussie farmers have plenty to celebrate this Australia Day, with fresh figures revealing a stunning boom in red meat exports.
Duncan Evans
Residents were told to shelter inside as a raging bushfire put lives and homes at risk.
Caleb Runciman
Advanced Wagyu genetics produced in the Great Southern and aimed at a vertically integrated supply chain, including stud seedstock and boxed beef production, is leading the way for the breed in Australia.
Bob Garnant
WA’s progressive cattle producers are urged to mark Monday, March 10 as a day they can secure premium genetics able to advance their beef breeding program into the black.
The WA Nationals have launched a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign in the lead up to Australia Day, declaring Federal Labor’s live sheep export ban is ‘bad news for your barbecue’.
The Cowcher family of Williams-based Willandra Simmental and Red-Black Angus stud will host their 37th Annual On-property Bull Sale on Tuesday February 18 at 12.30pm.
Angus stud principals Paul and Lydia Torrisi of Boyanup and Donnybrook-based Black Market will offer 52 bulls at their Annual Bull Sale on February 26 at the Boyanup Sale Complex.
Vasse-based Blackrock Angus stud’s line up of 77 bulls combines the important traits of fertility, growth, carcase quality, and temperament, desirable in any profitable beef herd.
Munglinup-based Arkle Angus stud principal Siobhan Cowan and her team will host their 5th Annual Bull Sale February 7.
A tax bill believed to be more than $1 million and missing cash reserves have plunged a powerful farming lobby group into crisis.
Matt Mckenzie, Adam Poulsen, Jessica Page & Jake Dietsch
Katanning-based Carenda Angus stud co-principal Matt Kitchen and his team will offer 35 quality Angus bulls in their 7th annual on- property sale on January 20, at Katanning.
The Gandy Angus Yearling Bull Sale will offer 70 ready to work, “herd improving” bulls on Monday April 14 at Boyanup Saleyards, and through AuctionsPlus.
The Davis family, of Coonamble Angus stud in Bremer Bay, will offer a catalogue of 111 grass-fed Angus bulls at their annual on-property sale on Tuesday February 25, starting at 12pm.
Nationals leader Shane Love will claim that the Labor Government’s failure on fishing, four-wheel driving and firearms are an attack on ‘hardworking families who just want to enjoy their time off’.
Dylan Caporn
The past 12 months have marked a productive period for the WA cattle market, with beef exports hitting record highs and analysts forecasting another positive year for the industry.
Olivia Ford
A bid to buy back WA’s regional rail network has been labelled ‘hollow’ by the Nationals, as the Liberal party predicted taxpayers could be forced to fork out a staggering amount.
Jessica Page
An ongoing campaign to eradicate skeleton weed is ramping up, with surveillance efforts expanding into parts of WA’s Wheatbelt where the crop pest has yet to be recorded.
It has been a tale of two extremes over the last week, with a tropical cyclone drenching the State’s north, and a record-breaking heatwave sending the mercury soaring along WA’s more southerly coasts.
Olivia Ford and Matthew Paddick
If you had asked Mark Grave 30 years ago if he would see himself as the CEO of the Australian Wool Exchange, he would have told you “absolutely not”.
The Australian wool market has made a “very strong” start to 2025 thanks to a weaker Australian dollar, with buyers stepping up to a relatively large catalogue.
More funding is needed to help protect the South West region’s critically endangered hairy marron, an environmental management group says.
Ezra Kaye
