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Dryland Farming
Dryland Farming

Harvesting the power of progress in the Mallee

COMING off a tough 2024 for most farmers across northwest Victoria, Mallee Sustainable Farming is ramping up a new series of programs, research initiatives, and events in 2025 to support dryland farmers. And not just in Victoria but also into...

21 Feb 2025
North West Farmer

Grain records fall but Victoria misses out

GRAIN receival sites in the GrainCorp network have recorded their highest receivals in more than 10 years, with receival records falling in Queensland and New South Wales. Harvest activity has wound up across both states and in Victoria, with totals...

21 Feb 2025
Machinery

Excitement of the autonomous

A 2022 study tour to northern NSW and Queensland sparked a revolution in the Victorian Mallee for Kyle Pearse and his family on their mixed cropping and sheep enterprise. Mr Pearse is a Birchip Cropping Group member and also part of...

20 Jan 2025
North West Farmer

Making hay when the sun shines - too much

LOW rainfall in winter and spring in many districts across northwest Victoria, and in the southern Mallee, has made it harder to produce good quality hay this season. However, once it has been made it’s important to store it to minimise yield and...

22 Dec 2024
Dryland Farming

Spray warnings - get the drift

GRAIN Producers Australia is urging growers to be alert, vigilant and proactive, to maintain high standards for pesticide application, and protect crops from spray drift damage. GPA’s timely warning comes after Cotton Australia recently raised...

21 Dec 2024
News

Harvest 2024: it never rains but it pours

LIKE many other graingrowers, Victorian Farmers Federation grains council president and Millewa broadacre cropper Craig Henderson admits this harvest could have been a lot worse. But it certainly could have been a lot better. And he said looking...

20 Dec 2024
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Dryland Farming

Wheat falling number may improve after storage

GRAINGROWERS generally experience anxiety when the falling number test machine comes out at harvest, but new preliminary research findings suggest wheat falling number test results could improve with time in storage. This research explored the...

20 Dec 2024
North West Farmer

When it comes to carbon, not all soils are the soils you think

MALLEE Sustainable Farming has been funded for a project to promote action to optimise or increase soil carbon in southwest NSW. Soil carbon is a hot topic in agriculture, but what does it really mean for farmers in low-rainfall areas such as...

22 Nov 2024
Dryland Farming

Dont get wild about oats, get their measure

WIDESPREAD across most of Victoria, wild oats are a common weed of cereal crops, pastures, roadsides and waste places, including the margins of swamps, lakes and streams. The Mallee – like most Victorian cropping areas – is confronted with weed...

21 Nov 2024
North West Farmer

Why Wyndham Station is no carbon copy of a pipedream

People are pretty pragmatic out in the pastoral country. It’s big country which can have big problems – but also big rewards. Where no day, season or year is ever the same. Right now at Wyndham Station, on the anabranch, north of Wentworth, it’s...

20 Nov 2024
Dryland Farming

Free spray day for Mallee farmers

NATIONAL peak industry body GrainGrowers are teaming up with the Birchip Cropping Group to stage a free spray application for Mallee producers on Tuesday. The workshop will be headed by Craig Day from Spray Safe & Save, who has been running spray...

09 Nov 2024
Dryland Farming

Farming a fair-dinkum balancing business

THERE was a critical message for participants at the 2024 Birchip Cropping Group’s Main Field Day at Nullawil, south of Robinvale, this week. Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre chief economist Professor Ross Kingwell told them “the most...

19 Oct 2024
News

Grain handlers dispute escalates

THIS year’s Victorian harvest could be thrown into disarray as grain handlers at GrainCorp sites in NSW vote on whether to down tools over a pay dispute. Australian Workers’ Union said industrial action was at play after negotiations broke down...

19 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
North West Farmer

Trial visits a ripping time

MALLEE Sustainable Farming has picked a very good time for its current trials on strategies to get crops through a dry year. Because by and large, that’s exactly what it got in large slabs of its footprint. Ouyen’s long-term average rainfall is...

20 Sep 2024
Dryland Farming

Nip crop rust in the bud

IF you thought rust decisions were all about rain in your crop, think again. Heat is just as big a problem. Industry guru Dr Grant Holloway will be explaining where it can all go wrong when he attends the annual Birchip Cropping Group Main Field Day...

06 Sep 2024
North West Farmer

Growers talk grain opportunities

MALLEE graingrowers and agronomists this week got the chance to deliver their message to the industry’s biggest investor in research and development. The Grains Research and Development Corporation staged one of its grower network forums at...

23 Aug 2024