FIXED-TIME artificial insemination programs are making it easier for beef producers to use some of the highest genetic merit bulls available, and wean heavier calves at the same time.

SA growers have until April 27 April to book unwanted chemicals for a statewide ChemClear collection in June 2018.

Concerned Adelaide Hills landholders are ramping up their fight against the proposed re-opening of a 130-year-old gold mine.

Younger Merino breeding ewes were in demand and attracted plenty of attention from competitive buyers at the Jamestown store sale on Thursday last week and helped pushed the sale’s top price to $200.