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By Liv Casben FARMLAND is held more tightly than it has been for a generation, and prospective buyers are carefully reassessing purchasing decisions, but when…

AUSTRALIA’S biosecurity experts have run up the white flag and surrendered all plans of eradicating varroa mite from the national bee population. The move came…

THE first field day at Petro Station since it was put under new ownership in 2017 has been deemed a great success. On Thursday, 72 growers…

VARROA mite is on the march across NSW – with Sunraysia, and all Victoria, are in the firing line. Only the Murray River separates Victoria’s…

A national research project is underway to give Australian grain growers access to acid-tolerant, locally adapted chickpea varieties as a profitable pulse option in their…

AN emergency order is barring the movement of beehives after varroa mites were found in NSW’s Riverina and Sunraysia regions, posing a threat to the…

A TEAM of scientists, engineers and economists have been assembled to reimagine what orchards in the future could look like through a $13.6 million program…

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…

IF you are jumping into extended on-farm grain storage, then life really can be a gas, gas, gas. Provided you have considered the benefits of…

SPRING is just around the corner in the vineyard and it’s very evident – the crows are busily conducting renovations to their nests. The pigeons…

KIM LE and ANDREW MOLE IT took a long time, almost a lifetime, but Greg Hipwell finally made it – first to the Grand American…

RATS! I was perplexed as to why, in a dairy with grain so readily available, as much as a rodent could ever want, they insist…