A collective of farmers are pressing ahead with a plan to build a large multi-species abattoir in the Great Southern to service the booming paddock-to-plate market.
Plans for a $35 million cooperative to take ownership of the Kimberley's sole abattoir have not progressed, with Yeeda Pastoral Company instead retaining full ownership.
A bale of hay that survived the recent fires near Myalup, north of Bunbury, has proved a valuable catalyst to efforts to restore the communities affected by the disaster.
FARMING groups expect that a fire early this week at a Western Meat Packers Group facility in O'Connor will have costly consequences for the state’s meat processing industry.
