Sam Coulton is not one to throw things away. The third-generation Queensland cotton grower keeps everything that still has potential use on his Goondiwindi farm. He says he inherited the trait from his father, Keith, a pioneer of irrigated farming in northern NSW who was honoured with an MBE in 1979 for services to agriculture […]
Australian cattle prices have likely bottomed out with some reprieve for producers expected over the next months with the US forecast to enter a herd rebuilding phase post-drought. That’s according to Cattle Australia president David Foote who told The Australian Ag Podcast today that while the sharp reduction in saleyard cattle prices over the past […]
It’s a vision of the future that has captured the imagination of farmers, food companies and agricultural scientists for the past decade. As arable land becomes scarcer, the climate-change risk of destroying forests to make more cropping country becomes ever-more apparent, and food insecurity intensifies as a global threat to world peace, many minds have […]