Tuesday, 25 September 2018
There must have been times in early 2018, when Simon Williams believed the normally reliable coastal rainfall on his property at Jerdacattup, was going to fail him.
Simon with Woody...
Wednesday, 25 July 2018
Tambellup producers Ben and Tracey Lamont are on a lengthening list of WA farmers relying on a quality flock of Merino breeding ewes to generate good returns from their 20...
Monday, 16 July 2018
The $4 milliion boning room, refrigeration and power upgrade nearing completion at WAMMCO’s Katanning plant will not only increase its capacity for more value adding of existing product, but also provide new scope for the cooperative to process live shipping and other categories of...
Thursday, 21 June 2018
The Roberts’ family business, ‘Lortleaze Farms’ at Esperance was WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month for May 2018 with a line of 182, six month old lambs, processed at Katanning on...
Monday, 28 May 2018
Kulin producer Simon Noble believes a lack of ‘emotional attachment’ to his sheep guarantees his flexibility to cope in tough seasons, as well as an ability to profit from ewe...
Friday, 09 March 2018
Like most WA lamb producers, Woodanilling couple Phil and Helle Crossley believe they were “spoilt“ by last year’s extended green feed season.
February winners Phil and Helle Crossley
This seasons’...
Monday, 19 February 2018
With their Merino ewes returning an average cut of 8 kg of 21.5 micron wool per head and delivering more SAMM/Merino cross prime lambs for record prices per carcase, the...
Wednesday, 17 January 2018
WAMMCO Katanning manager Tony Bessell has announced the appointment of two new managers for the cooperative’s export lamb and mutton processing plant for the start of the 2018 season.
Brodie...
Monday, 15 January 2018
Winning WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month award for December, 2017 has marked a return to the winners’ circle and capped another productive season for Brendon Tyrell and his family of...
Monday, 18 December 2017
WAMMCO has finished 2017 with a November kill of just under 90,000 sheep and lambs, but an average weight loss of 2.2 kg per head below November 2016, due to...
Monday, 18 December 2017
The boost in wool prices and a boyuant lamb and shipper market are rewarding Gnowangerup producer Gavin Lamont’s long term family reliance on Merinos and Poll Dorsets .
Gavin Lamont...
Monday, 20 November 2017
WAMMCO’S new criteria for their Producer of the Month award has not only brought new contenders from a wider area of WA into the winners’ circle, it has also intensified...
Monday, 20 November 2017
A 2004 decision to invest in local SAMM prime lamb genetics as a hedge against increasing problems in the Merino industry, is now paying handsome dividends for Dumbleyung farmers Colin...
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
WA’s lamb producer cooperative WAMMCO has issued an urgent reminder to all WA producers to complete the Sheepmeats Council of Australia survey on lamb dentition before the November 29 deadline.
WAMMCO...
Thursday, 09 November 2017
The Sheepmeat Council of Australia (SCA) is consulting with producers and supply chain stakeholders to determine whether the current definition of lamb requires changing. SCA has released the SCA Lamb...
Monday, 16 October 2017
Summer floods, grazing crops, abundant stubbles and carefully developed pastures have come together with management enterprise, and top Merino and White Suffolk genetics to lift the ‘bar’ for the Welke...
Sunday, 17 September 2017
Winners of WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month titles have become a diversified bunch since the Co-operative simplified its judging criteria and included minimum drafts of 100 lambs delivered by members...
Monday, 14 August 2017
Dowerin farmer Darrel Hudson’s strategy to pull back on his 2017 cropping program in favour of an increased focus on breeding SAMM and Dorper prime lambs, changed gears quickly when...
Monday, 17 July 2017
The Merino sheep flock run by Katanning’s pioneering Flugge family was down from the 1970’s heights of 20,000 head, to 1000, and battling negative financial territory when Norman Flugge asked...
Sunday, 11 June 2017
The Robinson family of ‘Bedar’ in the shadow of Woondillon rock at Babakin, have capped the ‘best-ever’ dollar returns from their sheep enterprise that coincided with a timely sequence of...
Thursday, 01 June 2017
The MLA & AWI wool and sheepmeat survey for June is now open (until Friday 30th June).
Below is the link to the survey – Surveys completed by 30th June 2017...
Friday, 12 May 2017
Wyalkatchem producer Steve Gamble was quite ‘chuffed’ to learn that his Dohne lambs had won WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month title for March, 2017.
Russell Wood, Steve Gamble and daughter Sashawith...
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Keeping the family sheep arithmetic simple and flexible with a preference for weight–no-grade marketing has underpinned a successful White Suffolk/Merino/SAMM prime lamb enterprise for Wongan Hills producer Don Sadler.
Don Sadler
Don...
Monday, 06 March 2017
WAMMCO’s decision to modify its Producer of the Month criteria has seen the competition recommence, focussing on plant and marketing efficiencies, and no longer includes and lean meat yield measurements.
The...
Friday, 07 October 2016
Australia's latest tri-annual wool and sheepmeat survey is now open for producers to complete online.
Here is the link to complete the survey http://www.sheepcentral.com/mla-and-awi-wool-and-sheepmeat-survey-is-open-for-business/
Wednesday, 06 April 2016
Three generations of infusing SAMM genetics with Merinos has assisted Quairading farmers Chad and Sacha Langsford to develop a profitable, minimum-care lamb enterprise that won WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month...
Tuesday, 08 March 2016
A decision by Tim Alexander to cut short his annual leave to send off a first draft of 224 SAMM/Merino cross lambs for the season to WAMMCO resulted in his...
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Manypeaks stockman Kim Dewar had started changing his small lamb breeding enterprise over to a new genetic base of Afrino rams and Multi Purpose Merinos, when a mixed line of...
Wednesday, 23 December 2015
David Meikle and his son Stephen say their “free range” SAMM prime lamb enterprise partnership with WAMMCO and local livestock agent Barry Gangell enables them to capture good returns with...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Aldersyde lamb producers, Wally and Glennis Mills, have weathered a tough season and increasing, costly attacks on their lambs by marauding Wedge tailed eagles – to win WAMMCO's Producer of...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Dawson Bradford, one of Australia’s most decisive and dedicated meat industry leaders, retired at today’s annual meeting, after 15 years as Chairman of the WA Meat Marketing Cooperative Limited.
Dawson Bradford
Re-elected...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Brendon and Ros Tyrrell have made relatively few changes to their prime lamb enterprise east of Scaddan, since they last won WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month award in January 2013.
Brendon...
Monday, 07 September 2015
Mt Barker lamb producer Rod Drage has become a leader in his field by adapting his Suffolk/Merino crossbred lambs to graze local vineyards and bluegum plantations as well as his...
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Dumbleyung Texel breeder Robert Temby has won WAMMCO’s June 2015 Producer of the Month title with a line of 205 Texel cross lambs that weighed an average of 22.14 kg...
Monday, 06 July 2015
Producer members supplying the WA Meat Marketing Cooperative will be paid another significant pool bonus for the their prime lambs and mutton, - on top of more buoyant returns for...
Monday, 15 June 2015
Good recent prices for wool, live shippers and lamb continue to justify a faith in Merino sheep, long held by Wongan Hills farmer Scott Kelly and his ex-shearer father David.
Scott...
Friday, 15 May 2015
WAMMCO Chairman Dawson Bradford this week recognised Badgebup farmer Nathan Garlick and his family for their positive and innovative attitude to prime lamb production.
Saxon, (left), Brock and Nathan Garlick with...
Monday, 20 April 2015
Two branches and several generations of Corrigin’s Poultney family have combined many years of sheepbreeding experience in a SAMM/Dohne/Merino prime lamb partnership that has won WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month...
Monday, 16 March 2015
Newly elected Stud Merino Breeders' Association of WA (SMBAWA) president Steven Bolt, Claypans stud, Corrigin, believes there is plenty of money to be made from Merino lambs with an increased...
Monday, 16 March 2015
Scoring WAMMCO’s bonus rebate on all of their lambs, on top of good prices, another abundant season with good results from rye corn pasture/brown manuring and being able to sell...
Friday, 20 February 2015
The directors of WA’s biggest lamb processor and exporter, WAMMCO International have further widened the diversity of their board by appointing Manjimup producer Brad Ipsen to replace Rod Madden of...
Monday, 16 February 2015
Tim, Jenelle and Jim Alexander
Changing profit margins and poor wool prices have seen the Alexander family of the 8,000 hectare ‘Timaru’ mixed farming enterprise at Beverley halve their wool and...
Tuesday, 03 February 2015
Another of WAMMCO’s earlier directors, Morawa producer Rod Madden, formally retired after 11 years of service, at this week’s board meeting.
WAMMCO chairman Dawson Bradford said Rod’s appointment in 2003 as...
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Jon Ward
When Dumbleyung/Kukerin producer Jon Ward last won WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month title in October 2009 his winning consignment consisted of 261 lambs, with carcases weighing an average of...
Monday, 08 December 2014
Mike O’Neill and son Kelvin celebrate theirWAMMCO win during harvest last week
The promise of a reasonable return from crossbred lambs saved Lake Grace farmer Mike O’Neill from a future dedicated...
Monday, 10 November 2014
Michelle and Graham with some of 600 Dohne ewe lambs just assessed and kept in the Dohne breeding flock
The chance purchase of a flock of 1,400 F4 mated Dohne ewes...
Monday, 20 October 2014
Isla, Peter and Craig Jensen inspect the next draft of Uralla lambs for WAMMCO
A long tradition of perfecting merino ewes for wool and lamb production and the more recent development of...
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
MLA and AWI conduct a sheep industry survey every February, June and October, to assess the production capability of Australia's sheep flock.
The survey covers the key aspects of sheepmeat and...
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The 2014/15 WAMMCO State Prime Lamb Carcase Competition is up and running and will remain open for lambs processed at Katanning until Friday 29th May 2015.
Tom Grant (Beacon) with his...
Monday, 22 September 2014
Producer realisation that WAMMCO has an increasing role to play in shaping the future of WA’s prime lamb and mutton industry, has brought unprecedented competition from four candidates for a...
Monday, 22 September 2014
Breeder George Clark and assistant Geoff Waters with a Texel/Samm mother and her triplets at Albany last week.
WAMMCO's Producer of the Month for August 2014, Lower King producer George Clark...
Friday, 29 August 2014
Phil and Christine with Gem and Watson.
A return to higher lamb and stud ram prices, and to an abundance of local killing space, another bumper season and the successful...
Monday, 28 July 2014
Craig Heggaton and his family’s Evergreen Grazing prime lamb production enterprise at Kojonup are surfing a new crest of global confidence in lamb, a welcome new WAMMCO trading bonus for...
Tuesday, 01 July 2014
WAMMCO Katanning will close for a three week maintenance break on July 21 to prepare for a busy run through to Christmas.
CEO Coll MacRury said WAMMCO’s Goulburn plant would continue...
Monday, 16 June 2014
Phil, Susan, Corey and Olivia Mincherton’s SAMM/Merino lamb enterprise at Ballidu, may have delivered its first – and last – WAMMCO Producer of the Month title.
A line of 140 SAMM/Merino...
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
Another group of four Cocos and Christmas Islanders who moved with their families to Katanning in the mid-1970’s, soon after the town’s export meatworks was established, recently retired after serving...
Tuesday, 03 June 2014
The Water Corporation has recognised one of its biggest corporate consumers with an award for water conservation.
Katanning Manager Tony Bessell accepts the Award from Water Corporation's Andrew Kneebone
WAMMCO International...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Winning their second WAMMCO Producer of the Month title since February 2011 has capped an excellent opening to the 2014 season for Peter and Kate Mills of "Ikewa", Mingenew.
"The late...
Monday, 12 May 2014
Dawson Bradford said he was humbled by this week’s RAS Hall of Fame honour and regarded his induction as recognition for important advancements in WA’s farming industry.“I have been privileged...
Monday, 05 May 2014
Entries for the WAMMCO State Prime Lamb Carcase Competition are now open. The extended competition will run until Thursday, May 29, 2014.
Download the competition entry form HERE.
More information: Rob Davidson...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
The originator of Dowerin’s prime lamb production ‘trio’, Darrel Hudson of Yleena Farm, has won his second WAMMCO Producer of the Month title with a line of 109 SAMM/Dorper lambs...
Monday, 28 April 2014
WAMMCO International periodically publishes a bulletin in the rural press which provides some background to current issues and developments in the Co-operative.
We're always ready to listen to suggestions to improve feedback...
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Winning their fourth WAMMCO Producer of the Month title – for February 2014 - along with some key Woolorama ribbons last week, on top of a good season, has set...
Friday, 14 February 2014
A switch from breeding to buying in Merino ewes to mate with SAMM rams is helping Dowerin farmer Jarrad Hollins to beat high labour costs and to optimise his returns...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
After a very dry year, and historically high lamb and sheep slaughter as a proportion of the total flock in 2012 and 2013, most southern regions of Australia received solid...
Monday, 20 January 2014
Keeping a firm course with their Merino/SAMM lamb enterprise has led the Kowald family's Capemont Farms at Katanning to their second WAMMCO Producer of the Month title for December 2013.
"One...
Thursday, 14 November 2013
2013 has served to remind Bremer Bay SAMM producers Anthony Thomas and Leonie McMahon, how easy and rewarding it can be running livestock in an abundant season.
Anthony with sons Finbar...
Monday, 28 October 2013
A plentiful supply of lambs, improving markets and a more favourable dollar resulted in a profitable 2012/13 season for WAMMCO, with more stable prospects ahead, CEO Coll MacRury told a...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The addition of a new 2,400 ha farm at South Needilup four years ago, further genetic progress with their SAMMs and Dohnes, a stabilising wool market, and a bumper season...
Wednesday, 02 October 2013
Entries for the WAMMCO State Prime Lamb Carcase Competition are now open. The extended competition will run until Thursday, May 29, 2014.
Download The Competition Entry Form Here.
More information: Rob Davidson...
Friday, 13 September 2013
A prime lamb breeding formula using SAMMS over Merinos then White Suffolks over F1 ewes has continued to prove a winning combination for Phil and Ingrid Anderson of Uranbah Estate...
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
The choice of Liz and Craig Heggaton’s Evergreen Grazing Co as one of four producer demonstration sites in WA for the MLA funded Lean Meat Yield/Lamb Eating Quality trials, will...
Saturday, 24 August 2013
Esperance SAMM breeders Quintarra Farms returned to the winners’ ring in WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month stakes by taking out the July title with a line of 682 third cross...
Monday, 29 July 2013
WA’s premier lamb and sheepmeat producers’ cooperative, WAMMCO International is preparing to distribute a record $1.8 million in bonuses and shares to its producer members in early August.
WAMMCO chairman Dawson...
Monday, 22 July 2013
WAMMCO International has farewelled two of its longest serving employees, Christmas Islander Amalan Alna and Polish refugee Richard Carson who both retired on June 30 after more than 30 years...
Monday, 22 July 2013
WAMMCO International has welcomed the decision of a recent hearing of the Migration Review Tribunal in Perth, to approve residency applications by 21 Chinese workers at the Katanning processing plant...
Friday, 05 July 2013
May has been something of a rally point - after a tough year - for Jerramungup producers Sandy and Alan Forbes of the Royston Prime SAMM and White Dorper studs.
Sandy...
Monday, 03 June 2013
WA sheep producers look set to be among the big winners from a severe drought in New Zealand and an emerging export market for processed fat-tailed sheep.
Read the article from...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
A new series of processing trials with fat tail sheep stranded by political disruption to Australia’s live sheep export markets, has changed the mood of a group of pastoralists and...
Monday, 13 May 2013
One of WA’s biggest commercial/stud Dorper sheep enterprises – now in winding down mode – has scored WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month title for April, 2013. Stuart and Cherie Smart...
