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Bullish result
Corey tops state PAGE 12
Ag land boom PAGES 8-9
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welcome a Queensland will East Cattle logistics in 2022 when Watco fresh start on 1 January on the state’s central West starts operating
west rail line. e bidding process, Following a competitivwon the State Govprovider last year the rail freight in September after ernment contract west rail line service. The securing the south from 2022 to 2028, with a latest contract runs option. said three-year additional director Chris Hood Watco East West innovative keen to bring his business was logistics’ table. cattle the to thoughts STORY PAGE 5
young A top gun and a gun have clinched in the major victories e esteemed Condamin sparkBell Campdraft, to ing a thrilling start Crown the 2021 Triple field of a From series. 440 riders, championa Ben Hall of Muttaburr draft won the open of Juand Charli Curr the lia Creek secured MeJoyce Campbell morial ladies’ draft. STORY PAGE 24
Big grain leap
to achieve what croppers seek Big grain size is grading, fewer screenings higher yields, better efficiency. d reand enhanced milling news, Queenslan Well, in some good genes in sorghum searchers have discovered summer crop - that prolific Queensland’s most size without penalty. could increase grain and Dr Jordan David Led by Professor has been done at the work by the Emma Mace, the Facility in Warwick Hermitage Research for Agriculture and Food Queensland Alliance - a research institute of (QAAFI) Innovation d. University of Queenslan STORY PAGE 6
Charli Curr, Arizona
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Local Warwick boy, Caleb Crouch, placed equal second in his first-ever ride in the mini bulls event at the weekend. Caleb also got the opportunity to meet rodeo legend Troy Wilkinson. Read more on page 11
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and soft.” Mr his body is thick a milestone for The sale marked his wife, Fiona with the and a bulls Bassingthwaighte solely with Yarrawong catalogue filled for the first time. STORY PAGE 4 age”. “He is standout,” he said. “Katmandu is a him and in meat of is plenty very correct, there
said the bull, which and Mr Bassingthwaighte at 914kg at 23 months topped the scales 137 square measurement of packhad an eye muscle the “all round perfect centimetres, was
their record of incidentally breaking at Andrew Nobby, on 9 September last year. Gertru- $126,000 set A horned bull sold a H Bomb Yarrawonga Santa son of Yarrawong breed’s Bassingthwaighte’s Katmandu is the a has reset the Royal junior champion dis stud at Wallumbill H (P) - the 2018 Brisbane - and the first of bull record. R236, the second and grand champion bull Yarrawonga Katmanduwent for $150,000 to sold. calves ring, the Bomb’s into lots of 158 Oaks stud, Ferguson, Glenn Scott and Wendy
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