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Jemalong Wool Weekly Market Update

September 7, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

45,838 bales were put before the trade this week as Fremantle returned after a weeks recess.

On the first selling day prices were quickly discounted, with 18 to 23 microns experiencing 25-50 cent losses, with the lesser style and spec lots posting the biggest falls, while the best style and strength lots in the finer micron ranges managed to record small gains. Day two saw a reversal with price movements shifting into positive territory, with the entire merino spectrum selling at levels 10-20 cents above the previous day. The NRI managed a 16 cent rise, to finish the week at 1,636, an overall loss of 14 cents for the week.

The skirting market saw prices generally reduced by 20-30 cents, with higher VM lots most affected, as buyers favoured the FNF types. The crossbred sector also shed 15-30 cents as did the oddment market with most types and descriptions dropping 15-20 cents.

Next week’s offering reduces slightly, currently there are 42,872 bales rostered for sale.

Source AWEX.

LAMBING DATA NEEDED

September 7, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) are collecting data as part of a national lambing density project funded by AWI and MLA. The DPI are asking producers, who pregnancy scan their ewes for multiples, for their data on their farm related to lamb survival within individual mobs.

The data will help the DPI to understand the impact of lambing density on lamb survival across a range of management and environmental conditions.

Upon completion of the project, participants will be provided with a summary report including their data and any regional and national findings. If you would like to be a part of this survey or want to know more please contact Tracy Lamb via email tracy lamb@dpi.nsw.gov.au or call 0408 443 267.

Living and Lifestyle

August 24, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

The One-Stop Fashion Shop

Little Extras is excited to announce its new season fashion arrivals. New labels are arriving daily leading into the new spring racing season.

Brighten up your day with labels such as AKA, Sticks & Stones, Rollies and the beautiful scarf brand Frontrow Society, that can now be seen in store. Home of Raw wire wrapped crystal jewellery also on shelves ready for you.

New season trends are lending towards beautiful detailed sleeves in pastel colours with blush and soft pink still featuring strong. Also in stock are some favourite comfort brands such as Elm, Eb and Ive, Mink Pink and Mavi & Riders.

Don’t forget to grab a bargain at the 70% off winter clothing and footwear final clearance sale. Please call in and see one of the friendly girls for assistance with all your fashion and accessory needs.

Coloured Dot Sale At Painted Daisies

Painted Daisies Gift Shoppe is having a massive clearance sale on homewares, pillows and more today and tomorrow. Treat yourself, a friend or that special someone to beautiful gift items at affordable prices.

Sale merchandise is priced with coloured dots. Items marked with a red dot are selling at $20, green dots selling at $10 and yellow dots selling at $5.

More sales are on in-store with great prices to be found, including a selection of well-designed and practical products. You’ll be amazed at what you can find!

The India jute rug, a beautiful laundry basket, vases, cowhide bags and eye-popping candles reusable as succulents or as a cup are among the exquisite goods sold in this gem of a shop!

Take time this weekend for a browse – you might just find what you have been looking for or surprise yourself with something new. The sale ends tomorrow.

STUD SALES

August 24, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

RIDGEHAVEN BREEDING EXCELLENCE

Ridgehaven Poll Dorsets is a family run stud at Cudal aiming to breed rams that sire profitable prime lambs. With a focus on combining visual traits, such as structure and muscle shape, and performance recording systems, Ridgehaven rams are consistent and balanced throughout the whole drop. This year’s sale offer an outstanding lineup of rams, showing early growth and maturity, depth of carcass and structural soundness. Inspection of the rams can be arranged prior to sale day on Thursday, 14th September.

COOTA PARK SALE

The Coota Park Blue-E 2017 annual on property production sale is on Tuesday, 5th September at 2pm in Woodstock, near Cowra. On offer are 50 bulls and 20 cows and calves. Coota Park Blue-E cattle are known for their hybrid vigour, efficient conversion of grass to meat, low methane and growth yield marbling efficiency. Blue-E’s are a line of Angus x Shorthorn cattle developed by Jon, Harvey and Barbara Wright of Coota Park. With Jon’s experience as cattle manager at the Trangie Research Centre, Coota Park built its own efficiency testing facility.

CENTRAL WEST STUD SALES

August 17, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

Choice Angus Inaugural Bull Sale

The 2017 Choice Angus Inaugural Bull Sale will be held on 1st September 2017 at 1pm on farm at “Inglewood”, 128 Norah Creek Road, Molong. There will be 50 yearling bulls on offer for sale.

The 2017 sale will be the first time Choice Angus will be using the Helmsman auction system. “We believe that yearling bulls, rather than 2-year-olds, are a better purchasing option for the majority of our customers. They carry the latest genetics, and being younger they settle into their new environment easier. In addition, being lighter they are often a better choice for joining heifers,” said Tim Brazier.

For sale information call Tim Brazier 0427 625 996. The sale is being run by Elders Bathurst – David Simpson 0427 399 362 and interfaced with Auctions Plus. For more information check out the website www.choiceangus.com or find them on Facebook.

Coota Park Blue-E 2017

The Coota Park Blue-E 2017 Annual on property production sale will be held on Tuesday 5th September at 2pm in Woodstock, near Cowra. On offer this year are 50 bulls and 20 cows and calves.

Coota Park Blue-E cattle are known for their hybrid vigour, efficient conversion of grass to meat, low methane and growth yield marbling efficiency. Blue-E’s are a line of Angus x Shorthorn cattle that have been developed by Jon, Harvey and Barbara Wright of Coota Park, Woodstock, NSW. The Blue-E concept was initially conceived by Jon after many years working as Cattle Manager at the Trangie Research Centre in NSW. The research considered the value of feed conversion to the beef industry.

After seeing firsthand the enormous value in selecting for feed conversion, Jon returned to Coota Park and initiated the Blue-E cattle and built their own Efficiency Testing Facility on farm.

Southern Star Rural

Southern Star Rural (SSR) a Senepol stud based in Canowindra have on offer a number of Senepol, Senepol x Angus and Senepol x Charolais bulls for sale on farm. This year a number of SSR bulls will be sold through the 5 Star Senepol Sale at the Gracemere Saleyards near Rockhampton, QLD on Monday 18th September at 11am. For more information please contact Clayton Maynard on 0439 029 204 or visit the website www.southernstarrural.com.au

Solve Your Lambing Problems

August 17, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

For over 20 years Felix Rams has focussed on producing efficient and profitable prime lambs by breeding high performance, structurally sound meatsheep rams.

Felix Rams’ commitment to collecting good accurate performance data is second to none. Since first weighing lambs at birth in 1996, they have weighed more

than 22,500 lambs within 12 hours of birth. It is little wonder that a Felix client recently claimed, “You’ve solved our lambing problems”.

Birthweight records go into Sheep Genetics –Lambplan. “We use Lambplan breeding values for birthweight and lambing to help eliminate the production of rams that sire lambs with excessively high or low birthweights,” said Rodney Watt.

The priority is quick early growth, and maturity, not maximum adult ram size. Felix Rams will efficiently produce a 22-28 kg lamb.

The majority of Felix Rams hit the sweet spot for birthweight asbv of between 0.1 and 0.5 and pfat asbv between -0.8 and +0.5. At the same time, these rams are consistently in the top 25% of terminal rams for growth rate and eye muscle.

Felix Rams will offer around 140 Poll Dorset and 45 White Suffolk rams at their annual on-property sale at Greenethorpe on September 5th.

Catalogues are available at www.felixrams.com.au from August 25, or call Rodney 0417 499 204 or the selling agents, Allan Gray and Co Cowra 02 6342 2377.

Heart Foundation’s Mymarathon Hopes

August 17, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

Up to 3.6 million Australians are not doing any exercise at all and over half say they mostly sit on a typical work day, according to new research from the Heart Foundation.

Alarmingly, couch potatoes are starting young, with almost one in five parents saying their child was inactive, and a third blaming a lack of interest and a preference for electronic games.

The Heart Foundation asked 1,001 adults about their weight and exercise patterns, and the activity levels of their children. The findings, published earlier this month in the Heart Foundation’s National Physical Activity Plan report included:

Only 20% of adults meet the national guidelines for enough exercise (30 minutes, five times a week).

One 7% of children get the recommended one hour a day of exercise, meaning 600,000 children are inactive.

Older Australians are more active than younger Australians.

Adjunct Professor John Kelly, CEO – National of the Heart Foundation, said: “Physical inactivity is one of the most significant global health crises. Our survey shows that levels of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour in Australia remain worryingly high, which is a serious threat to our heart health and increases our risk of early death.”

The Heart Foundation survey found that people who did no exercise – about 3.6 million adults – said the main barrier was lack of time, followed by a lack of enjoyment of exercise and a preference for doing other things. Those who did exercise were motivated first by the desire to lose weight, followed by concern for their appearance, and then concern for their health.

The preferred exercises were walking, going to the gym, jogging or running.

“Making physical activity easier and more accessible for all is vitally important if we are to reduce ill health. That’s why we have launched the MyMarathon challenge – an ideal way for people of all fitness levels to increase their exercise and improve heart health, while raising funds to fight heart disease,” said Professor Kelly.

The MyMarathon challenge runs during October and encourages people of all fitness levels to run or walk the equivalent of a marathon (42.2 kilometres) in their own time over a month. Money raised will help to fund life-saving research to fight heart disease.

Equivalent to just 20-30 minutes of brisk walking each day, it’s an achievable goal for most people, helping them reach the recommended physical activity levels and improve their own heart health.

The challenge was initially run in the UK by the British Heart Foundation. This year the aim is to get 10,000 Aussies off the couch and into their trainers to raise $800,000 for life-saving research.

To find out more visit https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/mymarathon

Jackson Saddlery Have Everything Equine

August 10, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

Jackson Saddlery was established by Shirilee Jackson to meet the needs of people involved in equine disciplines in Forbes and the Central West, after she became fed up with the challenges involved in obtaining products and services locally. “Trying to find equine products around here is just impossible. You have to wait for it to be ordered from online, or travel interstate,” she said.

“And sometimes when you do get the goods come in, it’s not what you ordered, or the wrong size. Having a local saddlery and produce store means people can come in and see what they want and make sure it’s right.”

The shop opened four weeks ago, and has had fantastic early success. “It’s taken a while to get it up and running but it’s been open for four weeks now. And we’re doing really well. We have a lot of orders coming in and people wanting products.”

Shirilee also works at the Forbes Veterinary clinic as a veterinary nurse, so when it comes to nutrition and animal health, she knows her stuff. Jackson Saddlery has everything you need for any equine discipline under one roof. To find out more, visit the store or check out the Jackson Saddlery page on Facebook.

MD Steel Fabrication

August 10, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

MD Steel Fabrication Pty Ltd is an independently owned and operated business which has been established in Forbes since 2004. At MD Steel Fabrication we sell, design, manufacture and build galvanised steel buildings, sheds & garages, trailers, ute trays and toolboxes for multiple uses.

Our range of buildings also includes standard designs and we have a range of pre-built trailers on display in our yard on location. We specialise in fabricated sheds featuring powder-coated universal beam columns & galvanised web trusses.

We have a team of qualified and experienced tradespeople who can provide you with quality services and advice required for your next commercial, industrial, domestic, or rural building project.

We provide a range of structural steel fabrication services to our customers who include commercial and industrial organisations, governments, schools, farmers and householders within the central western district and beyond.

MD Steel Fabrication also provide a large range of welding equipment, tools and hardware available from our fully stocked showroom. To contact the team at MD Steel, call 6851 4827, drop in, or visit the website: http://www.mdsteelfab.com.au/

Ooh La La! French Doors are a Stylish Addition

August 3, 2017 by Maggi Barnard

French doors create a sense of luxury in any home. Their lavish styling is complimented by their practicality, with a variety of options available to open up your living area and allow wide access to a courtyard.

At the Glassplace, hinged French doors are available as double or single doors, and come in either aluminium or Western Red Cedar with a full range of matching windows available in either material. If interior wall space is limited, French doors are a great option. Available as both an open in or open out application, French doors have the ability to be a stunning 2400mm high. French doors can be fitted with toughened or laminated glass or with Low E glass for energy savings and more comfortable living.

Full locking options are available for security, safety and peace of mind. You can view various French doors and single hinged door options on display at the Glassplace showroom, where you will see for yourself how Low E Glass can make your home more comfortable and energy efficient.

Visit the Glassplace showroom in Clarke St Parkes, the website www.glassplace.com.au or contact them on 6862 2346 to learn more about the range of French and single hinged doors.

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