THE King Island Council, businesses and farmers are hopeful the review will result in a reduction of all shipping costs for King Island.

This week most interstate cattle prices improved a further 20c to 30c/kg liveweight, following increases over the last couple of weeks.

THE wool market virtually duplicated the previous week’s rather insipid effort again this week with prices again down by 10 to 20 cents for merino fleece, a couple of cents for crossbreds and around 15 cents for the beleaguered carding market.

New research will help Australian dairy farmers know what the best age is to calve their Holstein heifers.

THE Australian wool market wrapped up the financial year with what ended up being a fairly benign effort.

​SHEEP and lamb prices continue to firm throughout Eastern Australia as numbers decrease and quality falls as a result of the dry seasons in some big lamb producing areas.