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Growers can fight frost risk
NORTHERN Victorian grain growers have a suite of new resources to help them prepare for late frosts and a potential dry finish to the growing…
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Nudges can boost carbon farming uptake
RESEARCHERS examining the economic and psychological influences on decision-making have found that just a handful of shared success stories about carbon farming would convince many…
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Calls for wine support as China tariffs deadline looms
By Dominic Giannini AUSTRALIA’S wine industry is in desperate need of financial support even if China moves to strip punitive tariffs, the opposition says. The…
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Farmland Market Insights: A Tightening Grip on Land Ownership and Blue-Ribbon Prices
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…
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Varroa mite eradication effort abandoned
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…
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Ideas grow at Petro
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…
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Battle to halt spread of pest
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…
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New research set to deliver acid-tolerant chickpea varieties
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…
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Mite threat to almonds
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…
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High hopes for narrow orchards
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…
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Sea Lake service technician named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year
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…
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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…












