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RECORD PRICESSheeeep! WA lamb price smashed at $320 per head

WA’s lamb price record has toppled three times in a week, with a pen of heavy lambs sold at Katanning Regional Sheep Saleyards reaching a new high of $320 per head.

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Katanning Regional Sheep Saleyards. Shannon Verhagen

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Lloyd Field with his son Stuart (left) and daughter Leone at his 100th birthday celebration at Hawthorn House.

Century makerCommunity-spirited Manypeaks farmer Lloyd Field turns 100

Retired Manypeaks farmer Lloyd Field turned 100 on July 12 and celebrated at Albany’s Hawthorn House with friends and family.

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DPIRD is calling on Pilbara residents to be on the lookout for an invasive crow species.

INVASIVE SPECIES Invasive house crow detected at Dampier port

An invasive bird species capable of harming Western Australia’s agriculture and native wildlife has been detected at Dampier port.

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NEWROC executive officer Caroline Robinson says a live export assistance package has come too late.

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An alliance of north-eastern Wheatbelt shires has criticised the Federal Government’s “late” live sheep export transition package announcement for forgetting wider regional communities.

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Indonesia has struck a deal with the US ahead of a looming deadline when higher tariffs kick in. (AP PHOTO)

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Donald Trump is hailing a new trade deal with Indonesia as a "huge win for our Automakers, Tech Companies, Workers, Farmers, Ranchers, and Manufacturers".

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While the Federal Government provided the APVMA with a $5.2 million funding increase this year, the NFF says this is insufficient to resolve systemic issues.

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Farmers are calling on the Federal Government to boost funding for the APVMA after new data revealed nearly half of all major pesticide applications were not being approved on time.

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Hillcroft Farm UltraWhite stud principal Dawson Bradford, of Popanyinning, and his granddaughter Emily Adams, displayed their family's Interbreed Grand Champion ram, HF tag 24-7008 at Wagin Woolorama.

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WA-bred UltraWhites displayed by the Bradford family of Hillcroft Farm stud were judged brilliantly at the Australian Sheep and Wool Show in Bendigo, taking out the interbreed reserve supreme champion award.

In the south, feral pigs, foxes, dogs and cats rip through lambing flocks and native wildlife.

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Top left: WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis and WAMMCO Katanning plant manager Marc Chambers standing where the WAMMCO expansion will take place. Bottom left: WAMMCO ceo Coll McRury. Right: WAMMCO's headquarters at Katanning.

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The WA Meat Marketing Co-operative will return $6.1 million in rebates to its producer members next month after a year characterised by volatility, challenges, and a sheep processing record.

RECORD PRICESSheeeep! WA lamb price smashed at $320 per head

WA’s lamb price record has toppled three times in a week, with a pen of heavy lambs sold at Katanning Regional Sheep Saleyards reaching a new high of $320 per head.

Cally Dupe

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

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The government has avoided ruling out ever taxing unrealised capital gains beyond large superannuation accounts, prompting Opposition accusations Labor has secret plans to go after family homes and trusts.

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RECORD PRICESSheeeep! WA lamb price smashed at $320 per head

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29-year-old Cailee Mansell was killed in a crash on a level crossing in Redmond on July 16 when the Mitsubishi Triton she was a passenger in was struck by a CBH grain train. Signage leading to the site of the crash. Laurie Benson

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US President Donald Trump has denied plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

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