North West Farmer

  • Robinvale bus trial set to resume

    Robinvale bus trial set to resume

    A BUS trial that helps workers get from Robinvale to farms and processing facilities at Carina West and Liparoo will resume in either the last…

  • Rebel bid fails against VFF

    Rebel bid fails against VFF

    THE Federal Court has finally handed down its decision of whether a rebel group of former Victorian Farmers Federation grains group presidents have been able…

  • VFF numbers on the decline

    VFF numbers on the decline

    VICTORIAN Farmers Federation membership has collapsed by almost 25 per cent in just two years according to figures contained in the peak agricultural body’s annual…

  • Farmers share their stories

    Farmers share their stories

    IT doesn’t get more grassroots than getting the word from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, but that’s what Birchip Cropping Group is now offering…

  • Harvesting travel memories

    Harvesting travel memories

    INTERNATIONAL backpackers have returned to the region to assist grain growers with labour shortages during this year’s harvest. It was a relief for many local…

  • Covering off all levels

    Covering off all levels

    Terryn Milner PROTECTED cropping – or protected cultivation – is on the rise for table grapes the length and breadth of Sunraysia. While growing grapes…

  • NWF Calendar competition – November submissions (2)

    NWF Calendar competition – November submissions (2)

    North West Farmer Calendar competition reader submissions for November 2023

  • Adapting to supply curve balls

    Adapting to supply curve balls

    MILDURA and Nangiloc Ag Supplies might be wrapping up a strong 2023, but their senior horticultural sales agronomist Carlo Nuitta stresses that the only constant…

  • Focus on managing growth

    Focus on managing growth

    Birchip Cropping Group From a qualified builder and machinery salesman to full-time farmer and contractor, Alex Noonan, who farms with his brother Jayden, has enjoyed…

  • SuniTAFE hosts hi-tech training

    SuniTAFE hosts hi-tech training

    SuniTAFE’s SMART Farm provided the ideal working conditions for John Deere trainers to spend a month teaching 76 personnel and dealership staff from across the…

  • Data key to carbon mission

    Data key to carbon mission

    New software that analyses raw production data is simplifying the complex task of measuring farm emissions. ANDREW MOLE reports. LIVESTOCK data management company Black Box…

  • Dig deep on regenerative agriculture

    Dig deep on regenerative agriculture

    REGENERATIVE agriculture needs you. Well, right now it really only needs 60 of you (plus a few off the bench) – including from the Sunraysia…

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