Good jobs aplenty in agriculture while city unemployment rises
While Australia’s coronavirus pandemic problems push national unemployment numbers above 1 million, the rural sector is frantically trying to fill job vacancies across a wide spectrum of trades and professions. Not only are farmers worried about finding enough seasonal labour to fill harvest roles in the horticulture and grain sectors this summer, a host of.
Biddeston property Foxdale on the market
Claire and Stephen Schmidt’s 161 hectare (400 acre) Biddeston property Foxdale is on the market for $2.1 million. Located 23km west of Toowoomba, Foxdale is about half cultivation and half pasture, with a creek dissecting the productive property. The pasture country is lightly timbered with coolibah and box with the occasional ironbark, running up into.
Coronavirus sees Queensland university students work on outback cattle stations
University students have been taking up jobs on outback cattle stations, with coronavirus forcing them to study remotely or defer their courses. The ABC spoke to two who ended up on Viola Station, north of Julia Creek, which has been busy mustering and de-stocking cattle this year. Townsville university student Axel Licari first started coming.
Smart Farms Small Grants – Round four now open
The Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment is now accepting applications for Round 4 of the Smart Farms Small Grants program. Applications close at 11.00am on Friday, 9 October 2020. Smart Farms Small Grants is an open, competitive, grant opportunity to support projects to increase farming, forestry and fishing communities’ awareness, knowledge, skills and.
Race to rebuild sends cattle market skyward
Fevered restocking has shifted into a race to rebuild that is pushing young cattle prices skyward, with heifers leading the charge. Heifers are now worth as much as steers, sometimes more, as the reality sets in of shrinking supply against a backdrop of paddocks already full of feed and one of the most favourable spring.
Queensland’s last School of the Air hosts mini school in Cloncurry for remote students
When new teacher Jess Somes took a job with the Mount Isa School of the Air she did not expect her first classroom to have a bar in it. Last week, students from the Cloncurry region attended their first ‘mini school’ for the year at the Cloncurry Race Club after COVID-19 restrictions had kept them.
66 Station Mated Cows & 69 Calves, Quilpie
66 Station Mated Cows & 69 Calves 66 x 69 station mated Brahman and Brahman X cow and calves ranging from 2-11yrs old. These cows are best described as medium frame cows with the odd larger and smaller frame in the lot. Cows have been continuously joined to bulls and were preg tested at assessment.
43 PTIC Cows, Quilpie
43 PTIC Cows A light 2 decks of Brahman and Brahmans X PTIC predominately young cows being 2-11 years. These cows are best described as medium frame cows and based on CBV bloodlines for a number of years and only introducing Rangeland Brangus bulls in over the past 2 years. Cows are PTIC by a.