4:33 PM AWDT | Boulia Shire mayor in north-west Queensland says his community is celebrating this week's widespread, flooding rains - a huge boost in the previously drought-stricken cattle country.  | Comments (1) | Wet New Year a cause for ... | Flooding rains in north-west ...

4:12 PM AWDT | The gusto of the previous day’s Victorian weaner sales dropped off at the opening of the Birregurra, Vic, heifer sale on Tuesday. But in later sales, all classes of heifer weaners sold dearer, ranging from 165-175c/kg, and the lighter weights making a fraction more.  | Northern weaner cattle buyers ... | Vic's 70,000 calf bonanza to ... | VIDEO: Heavier Vic heifer weaners sell ...

11:26 AM AWDT | AWB has increased its 2008-09 Wheat Pool estimates, lifting the benchmark APW grade $14 a tonne in the western pool and $17 a tonne in the eastern pool, on the back of a rise in international futures.  | Chicago wheat prices lift off ... | Smaller grain crop in 2009 likely

5/01/2009 | Successful buyers at the Wodonga, Vic, weaner sales on Friday came from three states and the ACT, indicating the depth of the strong interstate competition.

5/01/2009 | It is, says the seller, a rare opportunity. The seller happens to be the Victorian Government and, in this case, the pitch is not overblown.