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Get the drop on drone spraying

By CINDY BENJAMINAGRICULTURAL drones designed and built specifically to apply crop inputs are now an affordable option for individual farming businesses. And Australia Agritech project manager Gary Rentenaar has recently seen demand for drone...

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

Machine leaders Grizzly do it again

YOU can’t be too Grizzly when you are literally the cutting edge of the ag machinery business. Especially when that’s not just your opinion, or even the opinion of your clients (and it is), but is also the assessment of the wider...

19 Oct 2024
Field Days

Huge field days backs MMD fight

MALLEE Machinery Field Days took an innovative change of direction this year, turning its traditional guest speaker role into an opportunity to stage a massive fundraiser on behalf of the FightMND Foundation. With exhibitors packing 240 sites just...

10 Aug 2024
Machinery

Check machines for fire risk

NORTH WEST FARMERFOLLOWING 45 header fires during harvest season in the far north-west of Victoria, fire authorities are reminding grain growers to make machinery maintenance and hygiene a priority. While fires in cropping paddocks during harvest...

10 Aug 2024
Machinery

Shining a spotlight on on-farm safety

HEAVY machinery, livestock, open water sources, power tools and motorbikes – it comes as little surprise that a farm can be one of the most dangerous workplaces in Australia. According to data from AgriFutures and AgHealth Australia in the...

20 Jul 2024
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North West Farmer

Growers can get ahead of dust storm risk

MAJOR Mildura players in the citrus industry – including the Costa Group and Mildura Fruit Company – have played a key role in a project to examine microbial food safety risks along the citrus supply chain and develop management...

03 May 2024
Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

A history of hard yakka

Just like his pioneering farming family, Merbein’s Neal Bennett has no hesitation taking on daunting projects beyond his own property. ANDREW MOLE reports MERBEIN almond grower Neale Bennett’s great grandfather might struggle to find his bearings...

17 Mar 2024
Machinery

Drone is a weed-killer

DRONES are fast becoming a part of life in regional and remote areas, shown in a new approach to tackling invasive weeds clogging Gunbower Creek. North Central CMA and Goulburn-Murray Water are due to start trials using drone-spraying technology to...

07 Mar 2024
Machinery

Vineyard’s new beast of burden

An autonomous viticultural vehicle known as Oxin has the potential to evolve into the ultimate on-farm solution. Trials of the machine at Duxton Vineyards’ Euston property are producing remarkable results. ANDREW MOLE reports. YOU own a large scale...

17 Feb 2024
North West Farmer

Oxin: The Autonomous Farmhand Revolutionizing Vineyards

THERE’S an overnight success story almost a decade in the making that is quietly working its way through the Duxton vineyards near Balranald. In layman’s language, it is a farmhand. But a farmhand like no one has seen before. And the...

02 Feb 2024
Machinery

Small tractor’s smart moves

JOHN Deere has rolled out its big guns in the smaller tractor. Its new 5ML tractor making its Australian debut at a high value crop field day at the SuniTAFE Smart Farm in Mildura, in early October. The 5ML – purpose-designed and built for the...

26 Nov 2023
Innovation

How narrow can we go?

A NEW Hort Innovation Frontiers project is about to explore planting stone and pome fruit trees in 2m rows with canopies as narrow as a pair of secateurs. And it’s not about increasing the density of trees but planting trees at 2-3m down each...

24 Nov 2023
North West Farmer

Relieving the harvest time bottleneck

It was one of the most challenging dried grape seasons in recent times, and one of the lowest crop yields in years. The 2023 season – plagued by wet weather and downy mildew – yielded about 7500 tonnes, about half of the forecast for the...

08 Sep 2023
Innovation

Artificial intelligence coming to horticulture

ARTIFICIAL intelligence might not have taken over the horticultural industry just yet, but Sunraysia fruit pickers will soon be facing a new reality in the vineyards and orchards of the region. That’s because it looks as though the next big thing...

24 Aug 2023
News

Going nuclear on silo pests

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 gas-tight sealable storage in controlling and preventing insect pest infestations in your stored assets. And...

22 Aug 2023
Machinery

Tech’s long road to the top

WHEN Lachlan Corridan made the move to a new role as a service technician in the broadacre business with Haeusler’s John Deere dealership in Sea Lake, he first had to go on a harvest crash course – without any crashes. He managed to pull that off...

19 Aug 2023