North West Farmer
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SmartFarm to showcase careers
MILDURA SmartFarm will be one of the hosts to the next AgSTEM program. Launched as part of this week’s National Science Week and coming out…
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Rice farming runs in the family
WHEN you’ve been growing rice for nigh on half a century, you pretty well have the importance of performance and business planning down pat. Take…
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Bee parasite creeping past outbreak
AGRICULTURE charity Rural Aid is urging beekeepers and primary producers to seek help in light of the latest confirmed outbreak of Varroa mite. The parasitic…
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Student all set for life on farm
COMING off a farm at Barham, 14-year-old Hunter Toohey is at school in Ballarat studying as hard as he can to get back there as…
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Ag tech on display
THE BCG Ag Tech Expo was a hands-on, practical event for farmers, advisers and ag industry professionals – and North West Farmer photographer Di Martin…
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Tamaleuca takes wool wins
OUYEN’S Tamaleuca Poll Merinos is launching into its 2025 on-property ram sale on a tsunami of success at some of the biggest sheep shows in…
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Bee-ware pollination problem
Tim Jackson Almond Board of Australia chief executive AUSTRALIA’S almond blossom season is underway and orchards along the Murray River are looking spectacular. This is…
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Showing seeds for the future
BIRCHIP Cropping Group will unveil the latest performance updates on wheat and barley varieties being put to the test in the GRDC national variety trials…
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Wool org spots open
AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation (AWI) has announced the three director positions that will be vacated ahead of this November’s annual general meeting. Chairman Jock Laurie is…
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Roughage still needed
WITH the escalating price of hay and the availability of other feed, supplements producers might be asking themselves if they really need to feed roughage…
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Seemingly never-ending farmer cost burdens must end
Brett Hosking President, Victorian Farmers Federation VICTORIA’S farmers are being squeezed from every direction. Drought conditions, soaring input costs and volatile global markets have already…
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It’s all about the soils says research team
Katherine Dunsford is a research scientist with Agriculture Victoria based at Horsham. She completed her PhD in understanding the causes of poor grain yield responses…
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