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Georgie Somerset wins new term
as AgForce president
IMPORTANT AGRICULTURE IS VALUED
AgForce General
President Georgie Somerset
is celebrating an
election win, following
a hotly contested leadership
battle.
Mrs Somerset has
been president since
2018 and this was the
first time she was challenged
for the position.
She faced tough competition
from AgForce
Cattle Board President
William Wilson from
north Queensland
Mrs Somerset is a
beef cattle farmer from
Durong (west of Kingaroy),
and she said she
was proud to be able to
continue to represent
AgForce’s 6500 members
and thanked them
for their support.
“It is more important
than ever that agriculture
is valued as
we navigate global
pressures, biosecurity
threats to our industries,
and a climate conscious
community,” she said.
“In order to do this,
we need a strong industry
organisation that
can represent members
effectively on issues
beyond their individual
control.”
Following his defeat,
Mr Wilson will be
standing down from the
AgForce Cattle Board,
after four years as Director
and four years as
President.
reporting on Toowoomba Cattle Sale
Sale Date: September 26, 2022 – 209 yarded
Reduced numbers this week with the majority of the
yarding being made up of trade feeders and weaner
cattle. Quality was good with a few pens of similar
weaners on offer. There was only a small selection
of cows & heavy steers on offer which sold to similar
rates of previous week. Lightweight weaner steers
sold to 750.2c/kg. Weaners showing more quality sold
to slightly better rates.
reporting on Dalby Cattle Sale
Sale Date: September 28, 2022 – 3089 yarded
Numbers eased this week with wet weather around
again. Prices for most yarded sold to a stronger
market with good support from export operators
and feeder buyers. Restockers were again strong
on weaner cattle. Heavy bulls sold to 405c/kg while
better runs of cows sold to 402c/kg. Lightweight
weaners again selling to a high with limited numbers
of lightweights on offer. With the interstate buyers in
attendance it was a strong sale overall.
Bullocks – 435.2ckg / Heavy Cows – 402.2ckg/ Trade
Feeder Steers 626.2c/kg – Trade feeder heifers
558.2c/kg – Weaner Steers 784.2ckg.
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TOOWOOMBA CATTLE & PIG MARKET
Harristown Saleyards, Monday, September 26, 2022
Next Cattle Sale, Monday, October 10, 2022
Yarding: 209 Change: -67
Bulls, cows and bullocks’ numbers insufficient
to reliably quote with feeders, trade and
restocker categories improving weekly.
• Heavy heifers weighing 499kg sold for 488c/kg to
return $2436
• Trade heifer’s ex Mount Darry sold to 514c/kg to
return $1902
• 30 Santa Gertrudis steers a/c Marion Weidemann
back plains sold to a top of 678c/kg to average $1867
with heifers run returning $1771 from same vendor
• Droughtmaster steers a/c Andrew & Sandra Jenner,
Maria Creek sold to 676c/kg to return $2045
• Lightweight Angus steers calves return to the
paddock for 750c/kg
• Six-month-old ram lamb found a new home for $350
# Bookings for next week recommended #
DESCRIPTION
Steers
Cows
Heavy Heifers
Bulls
Feeder Steers
Restocker Steers
Restocker Heifers
Weight
500-700kgs
520+kgs
>400kgs
>600kgs
400-500kgs
200-280kgs
Range
c/kg
385-382
303-359
420-472
325-341
436-480
502-666
200-280kgs 436-576
Bobby Calves
Average
c/kg
369
329
449
333
458
582
506
Change
c/kg
-22
+34
+20
+50
+13
+8
+42
Grass Eaters $570-$1240 Beef x Dairy $540-$700 Dairy $180-$390
Prime Pork $240
Prime Bacon
Light Sows
NIL
$295
Weaners $154
Pigs
Prime Light Bacon
Replacement Boars
Forward Stores
Suckers
NIL
NIL
$196
$88
Livestock, 429 South St, Toowoomba 07 4690 7777
Darren Hartwig - All enquiries 0428 736 470
Mick O’Keefe - Cattle 0409 621 019
Mark Gersekowski - Pigs/Calf/Cattle 0427 761 099
John Padman - Dairy Specialist 0417 802 543
Rural Products, 397 South St, Tmba 07 4636 8888
• AgForce president Georgie Somerset
Disease control adds to profits
There is no doubt
we have had plenty of
rain to grow this year’s
winter cereal crops like
wheat and barley.
However, it is never
all good news is it, with
foliar leaf diseases running
rampant in many
areas.
Wholesale fungicide
applications have been
made to many hectares
of cereal and pulse
crops.
SALE REPORT
Saturday, October 1
Rocky Dip Yards CROWS NEST
Smaller yarding at Saturday's sale but
the cattle market is still very strong.
Next Sale:
Sat, October 15 – 10am
Rocky Dip Yards Crows Nest
For more info, Ph Rick 0428 879 531
Don’t forget we sell at Dalby every Wednesday
with Fitzgerald Livestock
For updates, watch for our email
Thursday night.
If not on our email list, let us know.
If you have cattle, book early for advertising
WANTED TO LEASE
Country to run 100+ steers
BUYING ALL TYPES OF CATTLE
Mobile: 0428 879 531
Fax: 4698 2580
E: rick@zlp.net.au
As usual it is always
an expensive decision
about spraying protectant
fungicides or
not with future weather
conditions playing a
part.
I recall Nick Poole
of the FAR organisation
, who scientifically
informs and advises
many farmers and particularly
agronomists
about protecting the
money leaves from
Your local agent
By PAUL McINTOSH
Industry Development Agronomist - Northern region
For Pulse Australia and the Australian Herbicide
Resistance Initiative
stripe rust and other
fungal diseases.
In Queensland over
the decades, we generally
have had a much
reduced need to apply
fungicides on our traditional
winter cereals of
wheat and barley.
Nick, however, talks
about maximising and
optimising our economics
by keeping those top
three solar panel leaves
protected.
Nick knows his stuff
and he is talking about
the flag leaf as T1 and
the next two leaves
down the stem. Also he
cautions about planting
a susceptible variety,
strongly advocating
the top three particular
green leaves are protected
at that Growth
Stage 31 and 32 and
then protection of the
flag leaf at growth stage
39, with the gap of fungicide
applications to
not exceed four weeks.
Overuse of our fungicide
options is obviously
a waste of money
and also as many of us
believe, it leaves the
door open for fungicide
resistance to surface in
the future.
As I say in the many
talks I do on pesticide
resistance, fungicide
resistance is one type
of pesticide resistance I
am not looking forward
too.
This is a major reason
to select varieties
not classed as susceptible
or even moderately
Needing someone
to help with jobs
around the home?
A healthy wheat crop
susceptible to the host
of foliar diseases.
However listening
to Nick’s sage advice
and reading my written
words is easy to do.
But putting it in to
practice in our expected
high yielding paddocks
of wheat or barley is another
matter.
Much concern has
been voiced about
over-spraying or not
needed fungicide spraying
of our cereal crops.
Yet this is easy to
warn about and not easy
to say; ‘No to a fungicide
spray application’.
For the future I would
say it is a fair bet that
even if we get half a
season next winter, then
leaf disease could be on
the cards again.
So perhaps choose
your 2023 winter cereal
varieties a bit more
carefully than just accepting
what you have
in your silo.
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