It was an emotional day at the office for Steve and Deb Reid at their Talbalba Herefords sale at Millmerran on Thursday, with the $102,000 sale of Talbalba Kingswood T011 (PP).
Alkira Riley loves helping people. The Nutrien Ag Solutions agent from Leongatha was always keen to get stuck in on the dairy farm run by her parents and grandmother, and that helping-hand attitude continues to motivate her today.
Farming is nothing if not a game of margins. Being successful comes down to managing those margins, being able to seize even the smallest of opportunities, and finding the best way to optimise production.
The ability to make timely and accurate decisions about livestock performance and pasture management without the associated labour costs is proving to be a worthwhile investment for beef producers.
Following three record-breaking years in the agriculture sector, value of production is expected to contract in 2023-24 on the back of forecast drier conditions.
The national winter crop planting is expected to remain historically high in 2023-24, however overall production looks set to fall from record highs, should below-average rainfall for winter and spring eventuate.
AuctionsPlus, Australia’s most trusted online agriculture platform, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Jackson Hewett into a newly-created Head of Content role within the organisation.
Hancock Agriculture has purchased two blue-ribbon properties from Packhorse Pastoral Company for a reported $80 million.
Finding productivity gains is high on the priority list for all cattle producers, but sometimes it’s not a big-ticket management decision that has the greatest impact.
AuctionsPlus chief executive officer Angus Street will depart the business on July 28, following nearly five years at the helm.
Producers looking to optimise cashflow and manage tax implications associated with their rural products purchases can once again do so thanks to Elders, and receive rewards along the way.
When one pictures the Antarctic, the image is generally made up of ice, snow and maybe a colony of penguins.
Doing the right thing at the right time has long been a key driver of success in agriculture, but often putting this into practice isn’t as simple as the theory suggests.
S. Kidman & Co has confirmed the sale of four of its property holdings in northern Australia is now complete.
A new mobile phone app is set to change the habits of livestock producers, transporters and others in the supply chain because it does what most apps can’t – it works without internet connectivity.
Carbon accounting will now be easier for Australian sheep and beef producers, with the launch of an online, web-based greenhouse gas calculator by Meat & Livestock Australia.
Farmers from around the world are banding together to support their peers in the cyclone-affected East Coast region of New Zealand.
Flexibility with cashflow is something most farmers would traditionally only have dreamed of, but a revolution is taking place across the agricultural landscape.
The reopening of China following the recent removal of Covid restrictions is expected to offer business opportunities for beef exporters, however volatility in the global market is also on the cards.
After 135 years, Cliff and Bunting machines are still some of the highest quality agricultural implements in Australia; an attestation to their founding fathers.
From Australia’s wheatfields to the rolling hills of Wales, almost every tractor in use today has Irish inventor Harry Ferguson (1884-1960) to thank for its design.
The agricultural sector is no stranger to labour supply issues and the dream tractor was designed to overcome these challenges.
Four properties totalling 2.4 million hectares in Northern Australia are being sold.
A collectable water tank that was left lying in a paddock for decades has sold for a record price.
No-one’s immune to a good YouTube session. You start with the best intentions and next minute you’re whiling away the time watching a cat play the keyboard. But for Anthony Warr, one video had him falling head over heels in love – with a black tractor.
Less than 30 kilometres to Wagga Wagga, the 1691 acre property ‘Dropshot’ has been sold to an out of area farming family.
Three delightfully quirky items you could have bought on AuctionsPlus.
A third consecutive La Nina caused headaches in the eastern states, creating logistics and grain quality issues. How can silo preparation help mitigate the impact of the wet?
The ‘Wondaree’ aggregation, which is made up of three properties totalling almost 5000 acres, sold prior to auction.
Located 25km from Theodore and 32km from Banana in Queensland, ‘Bimbadeen’ sold at auction.
These quirky and fascinating items are available on AuctionsPlus right now. Check it out for yourself.
Not even record flooding in the region could stop the sale of ‘Avalon’ in the Vermont Hill district.
For some, Christmas holidays imprint fond memories and maybe a few extra kilograms. For 13-year-old Matt Cooney, it showed him the future he wanted.
Queensland students are learning to muster cattle, drive a tractor and plant crops from their classroom.
Hancock Agriculture has purchased a 6856-hectare Wee Waa aggregation from the Findley family for a reported $150 million.
The almost 4500-acre Vaucluse Estate is a mixed livestock and cropping property in Tasmania's northern midlands.
An Australian family with rural interests has purchased the historic Plumthorpe Aggregation in one of the biggest sales of the year.
With two young children and a full-time career in the building industry, Troy and Hannah McNally’s life in Sydney was comfortable, and yet the yearning for something else lingered.
North of West Wyalong in the tightly held Ungarie Ungarie-district, ‘Ripponlea’ has sold for over $5.6 million.
Laden with mangoes, the banks of the Ord River, near Kununurra, Western Australia are a far cry from the hospital corridors familiar to nurse Bec McMullin. With former police officer husband Luke by her side, the young couple has traded their government careers for a long-held dream in farming.
Despite the flooding rain, the property still went to auction in Shepparton, selling for $8.8 million.
Owned by the Dwyer family, ‘Aloma and Shamrock Hill’ near Bathurst in the central west of New South Wales has been sold.
One of Australia's oldest motor racing tracks has roared back to life with thousands of spectators flocking to Lake Perkolilli for the Red Dust Revival.
Plough disc fire pits are becoming increasingly popular, so how can you build one yourself?
Artist, agronomist and agricultural communicator – Warren’s Penny Heuston is a woman of many talents as the success of her art business, the Heuston Herd, only goes to show.
An almost 68,000 hectare station 80 kilometres west of Tibooburra has been sold to a local farmer.
A premier farmland holding in Bombala has been sold via the AuctionsPlus platform for above expectations, and a record price.
The spectacular beachfront cattle property in Cape Palmerston in central Queensland has been sold at auction to a private conservationist.
A Riverina farm, spanning more than 43,300 hectares, has been sold for the first time in 20 years.
If you are fortunate enough to be farming with some beautiful scenery as your backdrop, what better way to give the broader community a taste of agriculture than offering camping on your property where they can get a taste of the scenery and a sniff of farm life.
As a young boy, Jerome Increase Case (1819-1891) read an article in the Genessee Farmer magazine about a machine that could cut wheat without anyone needing to use their own hands.
In the midst of the dust storms and drought of 2019, Buy From the Bush founder Grace Brennan had an idea that would bring the creativity and resilience of rural Australia to the fore.
Car enthusiasts rolled into the Forbes Motor Show for the 44th anniversary of the Vintage and Veteran Chevrolet Association of Australia.
Whether it’s cattle or chickens, coastline or the Clarence River, these New South Wales farm stays offer wide open spaces and activities aplenty.
The price of Australian farmland is set to record another year of “double digit growth” in 2022, agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank says in its annual Australian Agricultural Land Price Outlook.
The 27.52 hectare property, owned by veteran broadcaster Alan Jones, was on the market for $17.5 million.
The almost 4500-acre Vaucluse Estate is a mixed livestock and cropping property in Tasmania's northern midlands.
From full sheep processing to weddings, the heritage listed Jondaryan Woolshed in Queensland has plenty of stories to tell.
He was an innovative man, but it’s hard to imagine even John Deere himself could have envisaged the business he created in 1837, would be the powerhouse it is in agriculture almost 200 years later.
It’s been a journey two years in the making, but three tractors are preparing to embark for a unique new home, far from the Australian paddocks in which they’re usually seen.
A local landholder has purchased the 2400 hectare ‘East Glen East’ in Billa Billa north of Goondiwindi.
Despite some electric farm vehicles landing in Australia next month the NSW Farmers said it will be some time yet before primary producers make the switch.
After more than 50 years in the hands of the same owner, ‘Rosewood’ on Stoney Creek Road near Narrabri has been sold to a local farming family.
Often coined the ‘heart of the home’ a local Blayney welder is restoring old cast iron stoves back to their former glory.
A local buyer has Milton Downs East, the final piece of Moree farmer Ron Greentree’s holdings in the area.
West Wyalong’s Daniel Draper has taken out the Greater Hume Council Award for the best Australian designed and manufactured machine with his innovative feeder trailer.
We’ve been dropping into the homes of our machinery catalogue pursuers to find out what’s in their backyards: vintage vehicles, antique trinkets, multifarious machinery and curious curios.
We’ve found your next beautiful spots to stay in Tasmania, a fishing cottage, a spa cottage and a luxury coastal home.
An Australian family with rural interests has purchased the historic Plumthorpe Aggregation in one of the biggest sales of the year.
‘Abercrombie’ in the renowned and tightly held Kernot district in regional Victoria has sold for $4 million.
Players in the global agricultural equipment market are all expanding their global reach through various strategies. Here are their latest plays.
Simon Southwell celebrates a 30 year career with Ray White Rural this month; a journey that started in south west Queensland and continues on in the capital region near Canberra.
The spectacular ‘Dunrobin’ on Central Queensland’s Fitzroy River has sold prior to auction for an undisclosed price.
Eight years after it was purchased for $2.95 million the former Arding CSIRO station has sold.
Rural properties in western New South Wales continue to improve in value with ‘Multagoona’ selling for $5.3million.
After almost 20 years Roma’s “Bellevue Feedlot” has sold.
A premier farmland holding in Bombala has been sold via the AuctionsPlus platform for above expectations, and a record price. Following six generations of family ownership, a 1919ha farm located in the NSW Monaro region has sold today via AuctionsPlus for $16.05million.
With more than 80 years of combined farming experience Pat and Mick Cronin have sold Cronin Pastoral Aggregation in the central west of New South Wales.
Did you know tractors will constitute 30% of the global agricultural equipment market demand this year?
A local farmer has purchased 782 acres at ‘Redbank’ near Cowra in NSW’s central west for over $4 million
Perfectly located between Orange and Bathurst, ‘Glendowner’ sold this morning, less than a year after it last changed hands for $22.5 million.
Stephen Hogan is an artist from Bathurst, New South Wales who takes most of his inspiration for his works from his grandfather’s farm.
Explore the gorges and grazing country, the panoramas and the pastoral activities of stations and farms that also offer accommodation across South Australia.
We’ve been dropping into the homes of our machinery catalogue pursuers to find out what’s in their backyards: vintage vehicles, antique trinkets, multifarious machinery and curious curios.
With humble beginnings in Scotland it is Australia’s own HV McKay who is known for heading the company that developed the Sunshine Harvester, arguably the first commercially viable combine harvester in the world.
Just minutes to the inland city of Toowoomba, ‘Mountain Glen’ has sold including a bonus oats crop.
Rural properties in western New South Wales continue to improve in value with ‘Multagoona’ selling for $5.3million.
‘Washpool Lodge’ has been sold for the first time since 2015. The farm has played host to many racing greats since its inception 30 years ago.
A 1904 Ivel Agricultural Motors tractor – one of only nine known to still exist – sold for an astonishing $375,000 at auction on September 28.
Avocado farm in Kaloorup, Western Australia, sells for $3.45 million.
The Bay to Birdwood is recognised as one of the world’s great historic motoring events and has been a fixture on the South Australian events calendar since its inception in 1980.
The town of Glenrowan, made famous as the town where bushranger Ned Kelly was finally captured, will soon be home to a new tourist attraction telling the story of the final siege.
The rural property market is so strong in the New England region that properties are being sold before they go to market.
‘Sunnyhill’ is a lifestyle property that mixes horses, wine, food, architecture and is only an hour's drive from Melbourne.
Mount Doreen Station has been held by the same family for 90 years and is one of the largest certified organic cattle stations in Central Australia.
‘Creek Heights’ in Wallabadah, 30 kilometres from Quirindi has sold for $6.85 million.
For the first time since 2018 dozens of exhibitors turned out in soggy conditions for the Dubbo vintage truck, tractor and quilt show.
Imagine waiting 20 years for neighbouring farming country to come up only for two properties next door to go on sale at the same time. That’s what happened in Monong recently.
A 1913 Case 30-60 has sold for a record breaking USD$1.47 million, making it not only the most expensive antique tractor in history but the world’s most expensive tractor.
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