James Nason

Publisher
James Nason’s career as a rural journalist has spanned three decades from regional reporting to news writing and senior editorial management roles across eastern Australia with the nation’s largest publisher of agricultural newspapers, before launching an independent network of national online news websites dedicated to the Australian beef, sheep, grain and rural property sectors with long-time colleague Jon Condon in 2011.

James’ work has been recognised with numerous news and agricultural writing awards, including Rural Press Agricultural Publishing Editorial Person of the Year and Queensland’s Excellence in Rural Journalism award. In 2019 James and Jon were the joint recipients of the national Howard Yelland award  for outstanding contributions to the Australian beef industry.

James has also served as the president of the Rural Press Club of Queensland since September 2022.

Headlines may have faded, but disease threat to Australia has not

13 June 2024

Did BOM’s El Niño forecast bomb livestock markets in 2023?

11 Jan 2024

Large Victorian cattle saleyard to close mid-2024

21 Nov 2023

“It was going to bloody roar”: ‘Fear of litigation’ undermining fire response

20 Nov 2023

Hollywood comes to Tipperary Station to film Australia’s “Yellowstone”

20 Sep 2023

Legendary blind judge could “see” cattle with his hands

18 Aug 2023

Oxford University physicist: Why climate metrics are getting it wrong on methane 

9 Aug 2023

Why some of the largest and healthiest koala populations are found in cattle grazing areas

2 June 2023

What can we learn from a 6000-year-old farm?

28 April 2023

ICMJ: An ag industry leader’s advice to his 20-year-old self

18 April 2023

Queensland is running out of unique cattle brands 

13 January 2023

Air Beef: When the Kimberley cattle industry took flight

1 July 2022

Why Kununurra’s Legune Station stands apart

3 June 2022

Financial literacy: Tips for young cattle producers

4 March 2022

The Rugby clubhouse that cattle built

14 February 2022

The changing face of Australia’s cattle export sector since 2011

3 December 2021

How late “wake up call” brought balance to UN Food Systems Summit

12 October 2021

Alternative meats – are sales figures matching the hype? 

29 September 2021

Should cattle levies increase with prices?

1 September 2021

Big trade helps NSW producer bounce back after drought

30 April 2021

Big trade helps NSW producer bounce back after drought

2 May 2021

The rise, fall and rise again of Australia’s cattle trade to Vietnam

8 April 2021

True cattle breeders at heart warn about Q Fever risks

26 February 2021

Tag retention: NLIS tag losses still frustrating producers

15 December 2020

Opinion: Running cattle industry leadership on smell of an oily rag can’t end well

7 December 2020

The last gift of a young country champion

1 June 2020

Are cattle shipments from WA to eastern Australia on the cards?

18 February 2020

Why researchers are painting zebra stripes on cattle

18 November 2019

Know your ‘why’ military veterinarian urges lotfeeders

4 October 2019

Australia’s new abattoirs: Where are they up to?

1 October 2019

When cars and cattle collide, who is responsible?

18 December 2018

Rocky, Casino – now Toowoomba steaks claim as Australia’s beef capital

5 December 2018

From young start to selling millions of Australian cattle

15 November 2018

Ireland’s simple message on beef genetics: “a common data platform makes complete sense”

22 May 2018

Remembering March 2011: Wallaby and Aussie beef return to Kamaishi

16 March 2018

Bubbles and echo chambers constraining genetic progress: Strong

22 Feb 2018

Producer wins approval for ‘free range grainfed and grassfed beef’ trademark

14 Feb 2018

Opinion: Can Australian ag afford not to promote itself more actively?

8 December 2017

Satellites and helicopters watch the grass grow at Sundown Valley

22 November 2017

Wagyu cattle in the show ring?

14 August 2017

Family’s paddock to plate supply chain measures up

10 May 2017

‘We’re killing too many people and it has to stop’

24 February 2017

High-tech feed bunks to unlock Wagyu efficiency gains

16 November 2016

Deciphering the cryptic code of cattle brands

12 August 2016

The Rugby World Cup of Beef

25 September 2015

A simple way to stop weaners turning around in adult-sized races

27 February 2015

Beef Central profile: The adventures of Dick Slaney

31 May 2014

CSG and NVDs: Are producers liable for contaminants caused by mining?

24 March 2014

Reforms urged in ‘constructively critical’ report on MLA R&D performance

2 August 2013

$1m carrots, $450k burgers and free kicks for anti-meat activists

3 Aug 2013

Zanda McDonald: A profound sense of loss

5 April 2013

From claypan to green feed: carbon flows in action

19 October 2012

Tribute to an industry giant

5 December 2011

Don departs where it all began

18 November 2011