WA livestock producers are urged to carefully manage stock for potential chemical residues and help safeguard the State’s reputation as a producer of high-quality animal products exported around the world.  DAFWA veterinary officer Jenny Cotter said producers had a critical role to ensure their animals sent for slaughter did not contain unacceptable residues that could impact on market access.  “The community, along with our international trading partners expect that our meat, milk, eggs and fibre

Western Australian grain growers have access to a new reference guide to assist in decision making about which barley variety they should grow to deliver the best economic return. The Department of Agriculture and Food’s Barley Variety Sowing Guide for WA 2015 has been delivered in hard copy to about 7000 growers and industry members, and is also available on the department’s website. Barley is an important crop in WA, with an industry is worth

Below is a reminder from Rob Sands, Chairman of the Rural Business Development Corporation about the Drought Concessional Loans Scheme for Western Australia. “Obtaining a valid ‘BoM Rainfall Deficiency Report’ is the first step before completing an Application form. Data on the Bureau of Meteorology weblink is updated each 22nd or 23rd of each month.  This means that the area that is defined as having been impacted by a 1 in 20 or a 1

Western Australia’s leading agricultural advocacy group welcomes yesterday’s announcement that mandatory electronic tagging of sheep and goats will not be adopted. WAFarmers’ Livestock Section made a submission to the Consultation Regulation Impact Statement for the implementation of improvements to the National Livestock Identification System late last year in which it opposed the adoption of mandatory electronic identification. “The existing system of identification and traceability is well accepted and the introduction of mandatory electronic identification is

Members are encouraged to complete the 2014 Regional Wellbeing Survey, which is now live and will close at midnight on November 30. The survey is an important piece of social research that NFF and others draw on to understand people’s views on and the social impacts of a range of issues.  This year’s survey covers issues such as drought, water reform, green tape, CSG and mining, sustainable farming practices, markets, farm finance, and innovation. The

South-West farmers are encouraged to register their interest in farm planning workshops which focus on succession planning and marketing. Department of Agriculture and Food project manager Jason Moynihan said the free, one-day workshops were part of the successful Farm Planning Workshop series. “The new workshops have been designed to deliver a half-day Refresher workshop, for those who have previously completed the Plan, Prepare Prosper workshop, with succession planning or marketing the other key focus of

WAFarmers welcomes the tabling in Parliament today of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee’s report on the Management of Western Australia’s Freight Rail Network. The report supports the position which WAFarmers has long advocated – that there was no need for Tier 3 lines to be closed and all efforts should be made to reopen them, according to WAFarmers President Dale Park. “WAFarmers agrees wholeheartedly with the recommendation of the Committee that the government should