Sheep Production

Chinese diners are choosing the meat for its texture, fat, and flavour with large export volumes expected to continue this year.

Found in the remote reaches of Western Australia's Gascoyne, Quobba Station is one of the largest of its kind in state. It changed hands during a game of cards in the 1930s, according to local folklore — but not everyone is convinced.

Bonnie Telfer may not seem like a quintessential CWA deputy president, but the 23-year-old single-handedly saved her town's branch from closure after membership in Darkan fell to single digits.

After more than a month at sea, thousands of cattle and sheep on board the MV Bahijah are set to be allowed on land in WA this week. Here's how the journey unfolded. 

Mick and Ben Hewitt often do business in boardrooms, but it is clear the brothers are truly content in the dust and dirt.

The agriculture department says the number of deaths is below the reportable mortality rate, as authorities are continue deciding what will happen to the remaining stock.

Squatter started out as a side hustle and turned into one of the most successful Australian board games ever.

Questions are being asked about what will happen to thousands of sheep and cattle on the live export ship MV Bahijah, which was turned around due to the deteriorating security situation in the Middle East. 

Jak Rice went to shearing school hoping to build a career in wool, but what started as a necessity quickly became a passion as he works to improve his daily tally.

It might be hard to imagine, but sheepdog trials were once so popular in Australia they were broadcast on TV each weekend. But if you're new to sheepdog trials, let's take a few steps back and revisit the basics with Muster Dog breeder Mick Hudson.

Nicolas Hardy arrived in Australia at the peak of a shearer shortage and "went to the sheds" to back up the wool industry. Three years later, his employer wants to keep him but his visa options are running out.

A Kiwi shearer who learnt her craft in Australia powers her way to a new women's world record by training seven days a week in the gym.

The improvement in the results is mostly due to increased livestock prices and solid grain yields across the state, Rabobank says.

Despite the cost-of-living crisis, consumers are looking for ways to directly support small-scale farmers like Sue Foureur.

Can sheep and solar panels mix? This farmer believes they can, and is now a step closer to realising his dream of over 600,000 panels on his Tasmanian farm.

When farmer Matt Tack saw a video of his livestock being abused inside a Tasmanian abattoir, it was gut-wrenching — but when he raised his concerns with the facility "all we got was why these animal rights activists were horrible people".

The federal government issues a Tasmanian abattoir with a draft notice to suspend its export licence for a year after confronting footage obtained by animal rights activists raises questions about slaughter practices. WARNING: This story contains depictions of animals in distress.

Pub manager Linda Boylan said many of her "regular bar flies" hadn't seen a sheep being shorn up close before, and flocked to the pub where it was standing room only.

A shearer has raised thousands of dollars for the mental health charity by shearing a near-record number of sheep in one day — and all because he couldn't grow a mo.

Prices for some cattle have doubled as buyer confidence is restored following rainfall for many areas that have endured a long dry spell.

Police are urging members of the public to keep an eye out for suspiciously cheap breeding rams after the sheep were stolen from a property on the Sunraysia Highway.

After a five-year closure, a Geraldton meatworks may reopen by mid-February due to demand for Australian meat from international markets in Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Middle East.

With retail prices soaring past $40/kg for lamb cutlets in recent years even Sam Kekovich would have a hard time feeding lamb to his family, but these farmers are donating lamb to those in need despite battling their own financial heartache.

Emanuel Exports will no longer face prosecution over the deaths of more than 2,000 sheep from heat-related stress during a 2017 voyage from Fremantle to the Middle East as part of Australia's lucrative live export trade.

The thought of working and rejoining his shearing team kept Corey Bolt positive during treatment. Now, he's easing back into the physically demanding role.