INDONESIA’S status as a powerhouse market for Australian export cattle has risen to even greater heights in 2025, taking almost three quarters of shipped stock this calendar year. From January to November cattle exports to Indonesia totalled 510,565 head,... See more
The 2025 rural property sales year has ended with a bang, with the sale of Northern Territory cattle station Beetaloo for a price believed to be more than $300 million, ranking as one of Australia’s largest single cattle property transactions on record. T... See more
The once-a-week barbecue that has Perth queuing for hours AS an 18-year-old, Donovan MacDonald travelled halfway around the world from his native Canada to Australia, where he proceeded to fall in love three times. First with Perth, second with his now-wi... See more
A big question facing WA farmers is whether to “keep the sheep” now the live export trade, which has provided a key market for older sheep, wethers, and light lambs for more than 50 years, will no longer exist into the future. One segment of the WA indust... See more
FOR years, Australian agriculture has repeated the same mantra at conferences and forums around the country: “We have to get better at telling our story”. The problem is, we keep saying it – and then leaving the job largely to a handful of passionate volu... See more
