North West Farmer

All happening at almond event

THE north west Victorian and south west New South Wales almond industry arrived in Adelaide en masse this week for the 2024 Australian Almond Conference. Where attendees heard Haifa Group chief executive Motti Levin open the conference with...

06 Oct 2024

News

Get set for harvest

IT’S almost time for ready, set, harvest, across the Mallee and there’s a golden opportunity just around the corner to make sure you don’t miss a single grain this season. A Birchip Cropping Group pre-harvest workshop on October 15...

05 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Award for Calder

NYAH West agribusiness Calder Permaculture was one of five Victorian finalists, out of 22,000 nominations across Australia, in the 2024 Telstra Business Awards for Promoting Sustainability. The awards for...

04 Oct 2024

News

Buyback audit demand

FURTHER water buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin must be paused immediately until an independent audit gives the all-clear, the NSW Irrigators’ Council has urged. The Federal Government on Tuesday released...

04 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Red, Whyte and blue: One family’s effort to increase moisture levels in the Rangelands

AS one of four pastoral enterprises in the Rangelands Living Skin project, Kelly and Gus Whyte first appeared in North West Farmer in 2023 with their visually spectacular and environmentally ingenious ponding strategy at their Wentworth station...

28 Sep 2024

North West Farmer

SHC’s Mr Mango helping growers

DARWIN might seem a far-flung address for a Swan Hill Chemicals branch but since Brett Eade joined the team there in November last year his clients have been doing more than just making hay while the sun shines. So to speak. Because while it is not...

21 Sep 2024

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ULTRAWHITE SHINES BRIGHT AT ROSEDALE

Rosedale Stud UltraWhite ewe lambs 9-10 mths, ready to go out with some ram lambs. With an average weight at post weaning assessment of 67.2kg they also recorded an ASBV average PWWT 11.7, with a high of 12.9 and PEMD of 2.18, with a high of 2.74...

29 Aug 2023

News

Sea Lake service technician named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year

Haeusler’s John Deere Sea Lake service technician Lachlan Corridan was named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year at an awards ceremony in Brisbane last night. John Deere Australia and New Zealand managing director, Luke...

25 Aug 2023

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Ultra good results for Induro’s Ultra Whites

Guy Treweek’s Wakool, NSW, based Induro White Suffolk stud already had a blue-ribbon reputation for the quality of the rams it produced. But in the very short time it has also started breeding Ultra White sheep, it has raised the bar to new...

08 Aug 2023

Riding right off the pages of history

THERE would be few scenes more rustic and reminiscent of the earliest days of Australian exploration and opening up vast agricultural areas: slowly picking their way along the banks of the Murray, a small group of horsemen and women trailing...

21 Sep 2024

North West Farmer

Starick first woman to chair GRDC

IN what will be a new leadership era for GRDC, South Australian grain grower Sharon Starick has been announced as its new chair. Sharon Starick is not just one of the first growers from her state to lead the largest of the rural research and...

21 Sep 2024

North West Farmer

Industry guru Dr Grant Hollaway explains rust protection

IF you thought rust decisions are all about rain in your crop – think again. Heat is just as big a problem. And industry guru Dr Grant Hollaway will be explaining where it can all go wrong for you when he attends the annual Birchip Cropping Group...

21 Sep 2024