Livestock

Riverland abattoir remains in local hands

WELL known Riverland butcher Nigel Rollbusch has demonstrated his passion and commitment to the region’s livestock and meat industry by purchasing the Loxton Abattoir. The abattoir will be known as the ‘Riverland Abattoir’ and was previously...

Christine Webster

September 2025

Livestock

Lee’s best mates

LOXTON’S Lee Mickan has been teaching young dogs new tricks for the past two decades, with his team of working dogs one of the most valuable assets across many Riverland livestock properties. Originally from Pinnaroo, Mr Mickan and his pack of...

Madison Eastmond

August 2025

Livestock

The buck stops here with livestock health

MALLEE farmers in charge of livestock have a responsibility for ensuring the health and welfare needs of their livestock and animals are met. Agriculture Victoria program manager of livestock and welfare compliance Veronica Campbell said this...

SA Farmer

May 2025

Livestock

No stoppin’ the Barossa’s Dairyman

ON an 80-acre property near Lyndoch, in the southern Barossa Valley, you will find The Dairyman Barossa, a business that is out of this world and unlike most seen in the state. The award-winning operation is run by Michael Wohlstadt, a passionate...

Bevan Jones

May 2025

Ag News

Monitoring best for early intervention during calving season

REGULARLY monitoring cows is one of the best ways to reduce “unavoidable” tricky births during calving season, according to Agriculture Victoria (AgVic). AgVic livestock development officer Hannah Manning said monitoring can help farmers pick up...

SA Farmer

December 2024

Ag News

A must-have tool for cattle farmers

Producers can request a copy of the guide from PIRSA or download a digital version online

SA Farmer

September 2023

Livestock

Newbold keeping up with the world

IN an ever-changing climate of increasing cost of living, quickly evolving technology and labour shortages, the livestock breeding industry is no different when it comes to feeling those impacts. Covid-19 in particular has brought on changes, such...

Ashlea Miller-Pickersgill

August 2023

Ag News

Vaccine created to protect pigs from JEV

SCIENTISTS at an Australian university have developed a novel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in pigs to help stop the spread of the disease. The mosquito-borne disease can severely affect humans, but cannot be passed from pigs to...

SA Farmer

June 2023

Agriculture

Teaching Ag for the future

SUE Pratt and Carolyn Johnson have a few things in common, but a shared passion for teaching agriculture would probably top the list. Sue is South Australia’s lead agriculture teacher – a role appointed last year to help boost agriculture...

Deirdre Graham

May 2023

Livestock

EAD Bill strengthening our defences

AN amendment passed by State Parliament late last year has increased South Australia’s ability to respond to emergency animal disease incursions. The Livestock (Emergency Animal Disease) Amendment Bill was passed late last year, allowing...

SA Farmer

April 2023

Ag News

Livestock app takes top prize in Australian eChallenge

A SMARTPHONE app that allows farmers to better select livestock at auctions won top prize in the University of Adelaide Australian eChallenge late last year. The app – dubbed an “ingenious idea” by the university – will allow farmers to...

SA Farmer

March 2023

Livestock

Goats abound at Lameroo

ABOUT 10 years ago Lameroo’s Amy Eatts fell in love with goats. Now, seven years after moving to Lameroo with husband John and her three boys to a 90-acre farm Amy has a collection of 20 Boer goats, plus about 80 miniature and pygmy breeds. “...

Deirdre Graham

January 2023

Ag News

Pig biosecurity in focus

PIG owners are being urged to be biosecurity aware when feeding pigs, with foot and mouth disease (FMD) and African swine fever (ASF) still close to Australia’s border. Meat and meat products, or human food waste – including cooking oil – that...

SA Farmer

December 2022

Horticulture

Hutton Vale Farm slows food down

ANGASTON’S Hutton Vale Farm is a Barossa icon, known for its award-winning wine and luxury accommodation. But operations manager Caitlin Angas said the farm’s approach to ‘growing local’ and feeding locals was part of something bigger –...

Kayla Den Hollander

October 2022

Beef

Bull Oak Well Angus goes from strength to strength

IN 1997, Pinnaroo farmers Heath and Amanda Nickolls registered their first calves. Now, 25 years later, Bull Oak Well Angus calves about 240 stud calves each year, while selling 60 bulls at its annual February sale and another 30 to 40 privately...

Deirdre Graham

October 2022

Livestock

Semmlers reign supreme in SA’s llama market

PAINTED Pines Llamas at Lyndoch has had a strong lineage in the Barossa Valley and agricultural industry for over a century, and now breeds an esteemed array of llamas. The Semmler family established the site as a dairy farm over 100 years ago and...

Bianca Iovino

September 2022

Ag News

Search for next gen agriculture leaders

AS Australia struggles with a national labour shortage, school leavers have helped keep the agriculture supply chain afloat through a gap year program. The National Farmers Federation’s (NFF) AgCAREERSTART program saw more than 300 people in the...

SA Farmer

September 2022

Biosecurity

Pasin’s foot and mouth concern

TONY Pasin says he is “seriously concerned” about the Bali outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) and the federal government’s response. The Barker MP said an outbreak of FMD in Australia would send shock waves through the economy and damage...

SA Farmer

July 2022

Dairy

Pet cow ignited James’s dairy passion

GAWLER’S last remaining Jersey farm may have been lost years ago if not for the passion of a 10-year-old boy and his desire for a pet cow of his own. James Krieg (pictured), now 23, had grown up around the stories of his great-grandfather’s and...

Ellouise Crawford

July 2022

Ag News

New agribusiness app checking in to SA

A SMART app designed specifically for the agricultural industry launched in South Australia recently and is set to transform the way SA farmers and growers manage land, staff and operations...

SA Farmer

June 2022

Sheep

Family manufacturing business lifts after Covid

AN innovative Riverland family business is back to making the jobs of graziers across Australia safer and simpler, after being heavily impacted by Covid-19 border closures. Rod Holland (pictured), of Cooltong, has spent more than a decade...

Josh Brine

June 2022

Livestock

Stay alert for three-day sickness this season

WITH heavy rain experienced in many production regions recently, South Australian cattle farmers are being encouraged to keep a close eye out for three-day sickness. Three-day sickness, or bovine ephemeral fever, is a viral disease of cattle that is...

SA Farmer

June 2022