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10 Mar 10 | After a modestly firmer market in all selling centres on Wednesday, the market retreated during Thursday’s sales.
03 Mar 10 | Fine wools made some good gains this week with Newcastle fine and superfine wools supporting the price rise throughout the finer micron categories.
03 Mar 10 | Stock owners are advised to keep a close eye on their live stock as an increase of the virus 3-day sickness (Bovine Ephemeral Fever) is striking local farms. It is a viral disease effecting cattle and buffalo.
25 Feb 10 | Wool REPORT: The steady gains of last week failed to continue, with each day of wool sales recording generally softer prices across the majority of micron categories.
11 Feb 10 | The wool market experienced high volatility last week with good gains recorded during Wednesday followed by disappointing losses during Thursday.
11 Feb 10 | Landholders and property managers in the Macquarie Marshes area are invited to attend a free grazing information day hosted by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water at Carinda on Thursday February 25.
04 Feb 10 | The Eastern Market Indicator eased 22 cents last week as the wool market gave back some of the gains accumulated during the past two weeks of sales.
04 Feb 10 | One machine doesn’t fit all farming systems and with that in mind visitors to the 2010 NSW Conservation Agriculture Field Day on Thursday, February 18 will be able to experience new active demonstrations at the Trangie Agricultural Research Centre.
27 Jan 10 | Wool prices continued to increase last week.
Week-on-week prices were generally firmer, although the market did record softer levels on the last day of trade. The EMI gained six cents, then 15 cents over the first two sale days, before easing five cents to close the week at 942 cents.
20 Jan 10 | Wool sales resumed last week with impressive gains across the whole market, providing a great start to the year.
03 Dec 09 | Two leading integrated professional service firms for family-owned farms and commercial businesses have merged this week and a strengthened PrincipleFocus has established its new NSW head office at Dubbo.
03 Dec 09 | Livestock owners are reminded to take special care of their stock during heatwave conditions.
18 Nov 09 | Graziers are being encouraged to attend two free field days on the management of wetland plants to be held in the Gwydir Wetlands and Macquarie Marshes in early December.
18 Nov 09 | Hot dry weather over the past fortnight has meant a hive of activity as contract header and truck drivers scramble to complete the season’s wheat harvest.
14 Oct 09 | With the annual ram-selling season well under way it is pleasing to note good clearances and satisfactory prices are being obtained at the local on-property sales.
14 Oct 09 | Last week the wool market did not show the same resilience to the rising Australian dollar that we have seen in previous weeks.
07 Oct 09 | The wool market continued its run of higher prices last week.
07 Oct 09 | Warren farmers who want to maximise the productive capacity of their pastures and crops can now avail themselves of proven science and practical experience in a free workshop on soil health.
07 Oct 09 | The Dohne momentum continued last Wednesday with stud rams selling to $8000 and flock rams selling to $4500 at the sixth annual Macquarie Dohne Stud on-property ram sale.
01 Oct 09 | While the Australian dollar maintained its strength against the US dollar, this was seemingly no deterrent for the wool market.
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