Retreat is a very well balanced 599 hectare property, ideally suited as a cattle breeder operation. Click to check the original article.

Cotton farmers have started planting in irrigated padlocks but dryland planting is being held back in the hops of rain. Click to check the original article.

“The market impacts out business too, at the moment we are quiet. Leaving the current fires out of it, people out here are in a position where they still have feed, where the south east doesn’t. People have been buying cattle instead of selling them, and we want our producers to be doing as well […]

“The focus areas include securing a steady supply of well-characterised varieties, developing value-add processing methods, investigating the safe and beneficial use of hemp products in livestock and animal feed and generating information and tools for growers to understand the sustainability credentials of industrial hemp,” Professor Kretzschmar said. Click to check the original article.

More investment in education and improving science literacy could be crucial to solving the big challenges facing agriculture. Click to check the original article.

Water sustains our communities in more ways than one. Click to check the original article.

“A more practical approach is to focus on a series of indicators that are cheaper and easier to measure than biology – like organic carbon, pH, compaction, water repellency and disease – with the theory that getting these levels right will create a good environment for healthy soil biology”. Click to check the original article.

Today, across the two properties, the Dobra family grows a wide variety of leafy vegetable crops, including baby cos lettuce, red and green Coral and Oakleaf lettuce, baby spinach, wild rocket, Swiss chard, mizuna, and tatsoi under 53 hectares of fixed, overhead or pivot irrigation. Click to check the original article.

The sale marked the last on-property bull sale for the Bendemeer sale group for at least the next few years. Click to check the original article.

The research plots measure different grazing intensities, rest periods and stocking rates on animal productivity. Click to check the original article.