Sisters doing it for themselves: meet the new owners of the Bollon Hotel
The Bollon natives are living out a life-long dream. Click to check the original article.
UWA Shenton Park Field Station doors open on September 23 | Farm Weekly
The open day will start at 9am with speeches from Agriculture and Food Minister Alannah MacTiernan, UWA vice-chancellor, professor Amit Chakma, UWA Institute of Agriculture director, Hackett professor Kadambot Siddique and Head of the UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, associate professor James Fogarty. Click to check the original article.
New soil tech from Carbon Ag Technologies | Farm Weekly
The Carbon Ag Technologies team, including Brad Wisewould (left), Carbon Ag, Wes Lawrence, AxisTech and Damon Buckley, who is leading the development of an in-ground soil scanning probe, discuss some of the paddock maps produced from data collected by the iScan deep soil mapping module that is mounted on seeding bars. Click to check the […]
Guided Mushrooming Tours with Detour Adventures
Mushroom foraging is one of the many attractions of the NSW Central Tablelands. During autumn, it eclipses all the region’s other temptations, during the season Ian via his company, Detour Adventures, conducts guided mushrooming tours. Ian Redpath bounces out of his top-of-the-range 4WD, with a brochure in hand. Called Fungi of the Central Tablelands and […]
Should more levy funding be directed to ag education?
EDUCATION has been high on the agenda in recent weeks, with Queensland ag colleges going up for sale again and a beef industry leader calling to give young children better access to agriculture. Naturally, funding has come up as the next topic of discussion as the calls for an overhaul are likely to come with […]
Weekly kill: Erratic grid price movements continue
COMPETIVE pressure from a posse of southern Australian beef processors operating further north has seen some Queensland slaughter grids rise again this week, continuing an erratic period for direct consignment pricing. At last count there were up to six southern processors and exporters active in northern NSW and Queensland markets over the past week, including […]
John Lewis-Stempel: ‘I will burn the ragwort tonight, so in its death it glows as brightly as in its life’
On a breathlessly hot day in July, John Lewis-Stempel mounts an attack on ‘injurious and noxious’ weeds with the help of his trusty little grey Fergie tractor. There is an old farming adage, ‘in July they die’. The reference is to perennial weeds and the theory that, cut at their zenith, before the seeds disperse, […]
Huge cost of Varroa mite control revealed
So far 5388 hives have been destroyed in NSW due to Varroa mite. Click to check the original article.
Rural crime police boost but public needs to lend support | The Land
The 10 new rural crime investigators, state-wide, will join 53 already on the ground – double the number working in that capacity back in 2002 and up from 46 in 2018. The new officers will join three analysts and five detectives under state rural crime co-ordinator Detective Inspector Cameron Whiteside. Click to check the original […]
Applications open for agricultural Science & Innovation Awards
Applications are now open for the 2023 Science and Innovation Awards, to fund innovative projects in Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors, and support the next generation of researchers. University of Adelaide researcher Dr Rohan Glover with the Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) facility at the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, University of Adelaide […]
Heifers 357kg sell $600 over reserve
PTIC cows and heifers registered the largest decline in numbers while young weaner heifer numbers doubled. Click to check the original article.
Major upgrades to help grain storage
CBH bin upgrades to be read in time for harvest later this year. Click to check the original article.