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  • Biosecurity fears sparks Indonesia border call

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    Opposition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Karen Andrews called on the government to consider shutting the border to one of the nation’s biggest trading partners. “Let’s not run the risk of foot and mouth disease coming into Australia,” Andrews said on Thursday. Agriculture Minister Murray Watt on Wednesday announced further biosecurity measures after viral fragments of…

  • Virus could cripple our $80b livestock industry overnight, says minister

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    Murray Watt on Wednesday announced further biosecurity measures after viral fragments of the disease and African swine fever were detected in pork products, believed to be imported from China, at a Melbourne retailer. While Australia remains free of foot and mouth disease, it has recently been detected in popular tourist destination Bali as Indonesia grapples…

  • What’s your beef? Qld’s own cattle breed steaks its claim on the menu

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    It’s as Queensland as Bundaberg Rum and the Great Barrier Reef. Yet outside cattle industry circles, the Droughtmaster breed is little known among red meat consumers. That’s hardly surprising. For more than 60 years, proponents of the breed have been content to let it play more of a background role as a crossbreeding option or…

  • Could this flappy-armed figure hold key to protecting livestock?

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    A study led by CQ University psychologist Dr Bradley Smith has found large inflatable people could be used to keep dingoes away from farms in a non-lethal manner. “‘Because we don’t look after our livestock using shepherds, so humans out there in the paddock,” Smith said. “We’re missing this kind of human-like figure. “So we…

  • Raising the steaks: Bull market means $325,000 record more than Justified

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    And according to the experts, not even COVID-19 is expected to stifle buyer confidence in a buoyant market. Queensland still holds the record for the highest-priced stud bull sold at auction in Australia. Three years ago, a three-year-old Grey Brahman bull by the name of Justified sold to Cloncurry cattleman Rodger Jefferis for $325,000, thrusting his…

  • “Immense” dead sheep financial toll for KI farmers

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    As of this afternoon, more than 36,000 livestock losses had been reported to Primary Industries and Regions SA, including mostly sheep but also alpacas, cattle and horses. The livestock toll could still rise as animal heath officers continue to inspect and assess injured animals and more than 200 fire-damaged properties. Kangaroo Island mayor Michael Pengilly…

  • Army to help bury livestock killed in fires

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    Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie confirmed Defence personnel would dig the pits required to bury livestock over the coming days and weeks. “Bearing in mind, though, it’s about getting access to those still live fire grounds,” she told the ABC on Monday. “Where it’s safe to do so we need to be getting in within a…