Markets - Media/Research - General - Weather

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MARKETS

www.cattlefacts.com.au has cattle market information. Latest Saleyard reports and over the hooks prices are at www.cattlefacts.com.au/marketrptBranch.asp .

www.futuresource.com has listings of most commodities that have futures trading. Cotton, Wool, Australian Dollar, Corn, Coffee, Orange Juice, Pork Bellies, etc. This site gives you real time prices for futures and options on most commodities which have futures and options.

www.futuresource.com/quotes/custom.jsp?us=ct&t=future%2Cindex takes you straight to the page on Cotton Futures.

www.profarmer.com based in the US is a good information website for world commodity markets. It also has a lot of links to other information based websites.

MEDIA/RESEARCH

www.farmonline.com.au keeps you in touch electronically with all the latest
editions of your favourite rural newspaper

www.mla.com.au is a onestop site concerning all issues relating to the
industries of meat producers, processors, live export and stock and station
agents.

GENERAL

www.thefarmshed.com.au is a website created especially for farmers. A very appropriate name, it has bits of everything in there - markets, weather, and lots of news about what new things are happening in agriculture.

www.agforceqld.org.au will get you to the Agforce homepage, where you can find out what issues Agforce are currently tackling, and how they are going with them. Also a good place to access the Agforce buying service.

ABC Rural Online is at www.abc.net.au/rural/ and will take you to all sorts of Rural News stories, as well as having links to Landline and The Country Hour. Good for picking up facts from articles you have seen or heard.

www.cannex.com.au is a website full of interest rate statistics. It can tell you general interest rate statistics and fee structures for most sorts of lending.

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ISSUES

Natural Resources, Mines and Water website will allow you to download a
free RE Map of your property and become familiar with new and existing
guidelines for clearing. http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/vegetation/index.html

The QRAA site informs you of varied grants that some graziers and farmers
are eligible to apply for. http://www.qraa.qld.gov.au/

www.axm.com.au An independent mapping company which can help in all
areas associated with PMAV (Property Map of Assessable Vegetation)
applications.

WEATHER

www.nrm.qld.gov.au/longpdk/ takes you to the weather page of the DNR&M website. Browse on to the rest of the site from here if you are interested.

Australian Bureau of Meteorology:
Website - www.bom.gov.au
Radar images - www.mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/ This will show you where it has been raining in the last half hour in your area.
Cloud cover - www.bom.gov.au/weather/satellite/index.shtml#latest gives you a choice of satellite images showing what the cloud cover is over Australia.

Climate Variability in Agriculture Program
www.cvap.gov.au/mastersoftheclimate/ This website has case studies of how people are currently using climate data and resources to manage their farming business. Recommended for those who think that weather reports are absolutely no use at all.

The Institute of Global Environment and Society:
The Institute has a heap of weather data. http://wxmaps.org

7 day Precipitation Outlook - http://wxmaps.org/pix/prec7.html

www.weatherzone.com.au The Weather Zone tells you current extremes in
Australia plus many other features, including the SOI temperatures for 30
Day periods.