Rockhampton, Australia News

The APW1 price at Brisbane is being quoted at $238 per tonne and $220 per tonne in Gladstone according to FarMarCo.

The final figures are in and new records have been set, with approximately 85,000 people passing through the gates of the Rockhampton Showgrounds to attend the national cattle industry exposition, Beef Australia 2012.

THE bi-annual North Queensland Field Days kicked off yesterday with stall holders offering mixed reports on crowd numbers and sales.

The Queensland Water Commission will today release its findings on how the coal seam gas industry is affecting underground water in the Surat Basin.

WITH northern Australia home to the majority of the national breeding herd, it's fitting that a research project on an equally epic scale comprising more than 78,000 head is producing some fascinating insights into cattle fertility across Queensland, the Northern Territory and the north-west of Western Australia.

SCIENTISTS are taking to the sky to try to work out what parts of the Great Barrier Reef whales find romantic.

Mining magnate Clive Palmer says the Bimblebox nature reserve, where he wants to develop a coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin, is not a high quality environment.

A report into the new animal welfare regulations imposed on the live cattle trade says the measures are being adopted in Indonesia.

YOUTUBE Rocky Tiger Ploughshares action carried out during Operation Talisman Sabre 2011 U.S./Australian joint military exercises Rockhampton, central Queensland, Australia.

A report into the new animal welfare regulations imposed on the live cattle trade says the measures are being adopted in Indonesia.

Mining company BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance will today close one of its seven central Queensland coal mines in the Bowen Basin.

It's an effort to define what sustainable beef production is and it involves international producer groups, big companies and an environment group.

Circular Head Beef producers are setting the bar quite high showing their Queensland counterparts just what is being achieved in Tasmania's north west.

A QUEENSLAND Droughtmaster bull and a Red Angus cow from Victoria have taken out the Interbreed judging at Beef Australia 2012 in Rockhampton.

On the WA Country Hour today, Manjimup producers Gavin and Raelene Muir awarded top prize of overall grand champion carcase at Beef Australia 2012, being held in the central Queensland city of Rockhampton.

A lot of the business that's being done at Beef Week in Rockhampton is cattle which are literaly no more than a twinkle in bull's eye.

The federal government could face resistance to its income management policy from people in Sydney as well as remote Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.

Rockhampton in central Queensland is taking centre stage this week in efforts to develop a sustainability plan for the global beef industry.

THE Homer Family's outstanding 13,646ha Moura, Qld, property Bracklyn remains on the market after it was passed in on the vendor's bid of $8 million at an Elders auction yesterday morning at Beef 2012 in Rockhampton.

It would be the peak since the 1970s. We've sought out the best steakhouses around town and cut the competition down to the four best steakhouses in New York City.