Best seat in the house for cropping
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Wheat harvest shapes up well in southern NSW
Headers hit the paddocks in the Riverina to harvest some high-yielding wheat crops. Click to check the original article.
Insights about the state of Australia’s lamb market
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Cattle Australia chairman David Foote talks retail beef prices, and grassroots farming issues with grain grower Barry Large
Cattle Australia chairman David Foote sits down with James Wagstaff to discuss everything from deflated cattle returns to retail beef prices to market access. We also introduce our Over The Fence segment with leading farmers addressing the issues affecting them at a grassroots level; this week we catch up with West Australian grain grower Barry […]
Rounding up composite sheep
Kelpies put to work at Tarcutta in southern NSW Click to check the original article.
Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year, Nicole Saunders
Nicole Saunders and her husband Brendan jumped the ditch from New Zealand to Gippsland five years ago and have gone from dairy sharefarmers to farm owners, increasing turnover a whopping 10-fold in that time. The couple, who milk 1600 cows across three properties totalling 780 hectares, took out the top gong at The Weekly Times […]
Nuveen natural capital’s Australian strategy
Nuveen Natural Capital is an investment arm of the massive US teachers pension fund TIAA. With $2.2 billion under management here in Australia, Nuveen is the third largest investor in Australian ag. We talk to their head of APAC and Africa Kristina Hermanson about the global investment landscape for agricultural assets, where she sees the […]
What is the outlook for livestock prices
Livestock prices have turned significantly downwards, with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator losing 150c/kg in recent weeks and down 240c/kg compared to last year. To find out what’s going on, we talk to Tim McRea, chief economist at Auctions Plus. ALSO Bonny and Molly Penfold from Four Daughters sisters talk to Biance Tarrant, a cattle […]
Grant Simms on no-till farming
2015 Weekly Times Coles Farmer of the Year Grant Simms runs a mixed cropping business near Echuca and has gone from strength to strength since winning the award. Now he gives talks across the country on how to optimise yields by caring for the soil. PLUS the Four Daughters sisters talk to Tom Middlebrook, who […]
How floods will impact grain prices
The drenching received by the Southeast of the country continues to make cropping a nightmare as fields are flooded or become bogged, and water affected crops spoil. To find out how it is affected the grain industry, and what farmers can do, even at this late stage, we talk to Andrew Weidemann from Grain Producers […]