Catherine Miller

A pen of Merinos has upstaged the crossbred entries as the winners of the Mundulla prime lamb competition.

STONEY Point Performance Angus stud's stage one dispersal reached extraordinary heights with two embryo transfer donor females from one of the stud's best cow families, the Yankee Queen line, selling for $46,000 and $41,000 on Wednesday and Thursday last week at the stud's Naracoorte sale complex.

The 2021 Naracoorte Shorthorn bull sale soared to all new heights in both average and top price with buyer support from across the country.

Jovial character Ross Waller has called it a day after nearly 50 years as an animal nutritionist advising farmers on how to supplementary feed their animals and lift their production.

Representatives from the Limestone Coast's forestry, dairy, winegrape and potato industries have come together to see if they can find more irrigation water to expand their industries, or at least minimise cuts in the next review of the region's water allocation plan.

The inaugural Lucindale Working Dog Auction will be held at Yakka Park on Sunday, September 26 and is expected to draw people from far and wide looking for their next four-legged workmate.

Processor feedback to lamb producers has greatly improved in the past decade according to JBS Farm Assurance and supply chain manager Mark Inglis but he accepts there is still a way to go.

Livestock carriers are spending big dollars on safety features on their trucks and crates but Australian Trucking Association chair David Smith says many producers' on-farm loading and unloading facilities are decades old.

BlazeAid volunteers are making big inroads in helping bushfire-hit farmers at Lucindale and Avenue Range get back on their feet with their contribution already worth an estimated $152,000.

Mundulla Show -one of the first SA country shows for the year- was a great success with strongly supported livestock sections and record entries for the horses-in-action classes.