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
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Monday, 15 April 2013
Introducing rye corn as a cereal pasture crop and working to improve the survival rates of their SAMM twins are two of the ongoing missions Dumbleyung lamb producers, Dale and...
Monday, 18 March 2013
A proven mix of Suffolk crossbreds, Merinos and mixed grain production is keeping Woodanilling farmers, Barry and Damian Shackley in a sound, sustainable farming mode despite tougher seasons and tighter...
Monday, 11 February 2013
A chance booking at WAMMCO Katanning on January 21, was a bonus as well as a relief for Esperance SAMM breeders Brendon Tyrrell and his family - because their line...
Sunday, 13 January 2013
A breeding ‘partnership’ in SAMMs started with their Jerramungup neighbour Cullam SAMM Stud some 10 years ago, has assisted Graham and Wayne Barrett of “Glendale” to move from Merinos to...
Friday, 07 December 2012
Manypeaks producer Alan Lubcke is moving closer to his goal of producing 2,000 lambs a year from 1500 crossbred flock ewes - set when he moved from Merinos to prime...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Bremer Bay lamb producers Wayne and Tara Pittard have broken through a SAMM stranglehold on WAMMCO’s Producer of the Month contest, to take the October 2012 title with a line...
Thursday, 01 November 2012
WAMMCO Chairman Dawson Bradford and CEO Coll MacRury warned of little lamb market improvement, but gave some positive signals to shareholder producers at the Cooperative’s 2011/12 AGM at Beverley on...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
When the Jensen family of “Uralla”, Pingaring were last WAMMCO Producers of the Month in January, 2009, they were the first producers to be judged under WAMMCO Select criteria, just...
Thursday, 25 October 2012
April to June 2013
Terms and Conditions Effective 24 October 2012
1. Basis of Payment
The basis of payment for crossbred and Merino lambs meeting the contract specification will be the higher of...
Tuesday, 09 October 2012
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of Western Australian Meat Marketing Co-operative Limited ("Co-operative") will be held at the Beverley Bowling Club, 68 Forrest St, Beverley, Western...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
2012-13 Carcase Competition
As it is now time to start thinking about selling your prime lambs don’t forget the WAMMCO State Prime Lamb Carcase Competition is on again this year.
Entries for...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
A close working partnership between Phil and Chris Bairstow in developing their ‘Gulnare’ Prime SAMM stud and commercial lamb enterprise at Dumbleyung as a centre for high growth lamb production...
Thursday, 21 June 2012
A long tradition of mating big numbers of Merino ewes to Poll Dorset rams, and the option of selling crossbred lambs off their mothers, on-property to WAMMCO on a fixed...
Monday, 18 June 2012
An easy-care, self replacing flock based on a genetic ‘blend’ of “Moojepin” and “Great Southern” Multi Purpose Merino mothers and “Capolinga “ SAMM rams, is an integral prime lamb/wool component...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Agisting lambs on the summer-rain-affected crops of a Jerramungup neighbour, not only assisted Simon Cullam to cut the summer feed costs on his SAMM lambs, it helped him and wife...
Monday, 16 April 2012
Tough seasonal conditions with a ten percent lower lambing, prevented Woodanilling’s Bessell - Browne family, who are former placegetters in WAMMCO’s State lamb competition, from entering the 2011/12 contest.
Peter and...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Strong European signals of an escalating demand for red meat and a shared passion for sheep farming convinced Jerramungup couple Alan and Sandy Forbes four years ago that they were...
