The Australian wool market kicked up another gear this week with a very strong market right across the board.

A combination of stronger global beef markets, favourable seasonal conditions in key Australian beef-producing regions and higher local cattle inventory is supporting record-breaking production volumes, according to a new research report by agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank.

Beautiful red cattle at Dunroan Shorthorns, Latrobe, provided the perfect backdrop and a handy example of livestock breeding success for the Profitability from Pastures Field Day held last Friday.

It will be a bitter sweet moment when Peter Kurrle sells his Kiote tractor in the Ulverstone Lions Club “Every Move Matters” auction at Sprent Recreation Ground on October 18.

A pair of potatoes bought as fresh produce from retail stores, along with a spud from a processing facility in the north of the state, are the latest to have been found to have mop-top virus.

A new 886-metre underwater pipeline going across Spring Bay has been completed.

A key figure in New Zealand’s response to mop-top virus has urged the state’s potato industry not to panic in the wake of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales introducing import restrictions on unprocessed spuds from Tasmania.

Some regions are shaping up very well, while much of the south of the state is still in desperate need of rain.

Spring bull sales are hoping to achieve good prices on the back of a buoyant beef market and long-awaited rain bringing confidence in feed supplies through summer.

A beautiful 6ha crop of broccoli to be harvested this week is the latest successful rotation of food grown on the rich, productive land owned by the Parker family at Milton Farm, Don.