More than 100 people attended a Rangelands Forum held in Hay last Wednesday, hosted and organised by Sally Ware, Senior Land Services Officer from the Hay office of Riverina Local Land Services.

Monte Barnes was sashed the Champion in the RAS/AgShows NSW Merino Fleece Young Judges State Final which was held at the Sydney Royal Easter Show on Sunday.

The Hay Inc Rural Education Program is a three-week course run in the Hay district, over a five-month period generally aligning with farming seasons. It provides hands-on training modules covering all the necessary skills of stockmanship in sheep, cattle and farming skills.

Hay Inc committee recently won Ambassador Award at the 2023 Hay business Excellence Awards.

Kurt Woods is one of the best examples of how far love for one’s job can lead. He won the Business Champion Award at the 2023 Hay Business Excellence Awards.

The future of Landcare funding in NSW is uncertain, in the lead up to the March 25 state election.

After another sucessful Jerilderie Working Dog Auction lot 16 ‘Bart’ took the honours for highest sale price of $22,500. Pictured is (back row from left) Elders’ Nick Gray, breeder Brad Pellow, Elders’ James Kennedy and event organiser Warwick Doolan. Front row: Jaxx McBride and handler Joe Pellow.

The debate over the raising of the Wyangala Dam wall continues to rage as the NSW Government promotes its commitment to the delivery of the Final Business Case. The Final Business Case is on track to be submitted for review in the first half of 2023.

Booligal resident Bill Sheaffe describes the move as “an expensive exercise in environmental vandalism.”

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Dimity Comb of Speckle Park will offer 30 bulls, 30 females, recipient cows and embryo packages at the stud’s inaugural sale in March.

Quietly spoken John Vagg is pioneering a bloodline of poll

goats, using decades of observation and trials to produce animals

that consistently out perform their horned counterparts.

Chinese clothing manufacturer Smart Shirts Ltd has purchased Gundaline Station, Carrathool, from Dutch company Optifarm, in a deal worth $120 million, as Sentaor Perin Davey calls for transparency over the sale.

The Land newspaper has released its annual Top 25 Merino ram sale average in NSW for 2022, with Woodpark Poll snatching 8th position on the list.

Members of the Morrison shearing team were treated to silver service on the weekend, by the Murray family, of Trilby Station.

Familiar names head up an innovative push to incorporate biofertiliser, biocontrol and biostimulant products for agricultural purposes.

Ben Barlow, former owner of “Ulonga”, on the One Tree plain, is now the Managing Director of New Edge Microbials, and with a 20-year history of success behind the business, NEM now holds a 45 per cent market share across Australia.

La Nina is set to end in February, according to the senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), after a record-breaking October in many parts of the eastern states.

A visit to the village of Booligal last week is a lesson in calm resilience, as townspeople and landholders alike resolutely go about their business, as the Lachlan River continues to rise around them.

According to a recently released study by the Australian Pig Doggers and Hunters Association (APDHA), recreational hunters could be removing more than 11,000 feral pigs weekly from the agricultural and natural environment across NSW.

Locally bred Avenpart Wildfire, at 12 weeks old, is jet setting across the globe, landing in Los Angeles, USA to meet her devoted new owners, and then off to Virginia.

A population of rare native yam daisies has been discovered on a travelling stock reserve (TSR) near Hay, with work underway from Riverina Local Land Services to protect the native plant.

Hay War Memorial High School Aberline Dorper and White Dorper Stud show teams enjoyed a massive success at the Melbourne show.

Hay Associated agents recently held the annual September sale on Friday 23rd September, with a combined total of 20,000 head with 14000 young ewes, 1000 ewe lambs, 630 2-year-old ewes, 400 4-year-old ewes and 2800 5-year-old ewes.