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Almond growers crack down on beetle

A TINY beetle that’s just 2 to 3mm long is one of the most damaging insect pests for almonds in Australia, but a substantial amount of work is being done by researchers and the almond industry to look at how it can be...

22 Jan 2025
North West Farmer

Squeezing more messages out of your moisture monitoring

Soil moisture technology is a powerful tool in the hands of irrigators, but harnessing its full potential is an art in itself. Which is why a series of soil moisture monitoring workshops later this month will provide irrigators with the opportunity...

25 Nov 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
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
North West Farmer

App pins down pesticide resistance

A new data visualisation tool can display the distribution and severity of pesticide resistance across Australia, enabling growers and agronomists to make better, data-driven crop management decisions relevant to their region. The Pesticide...

20 Nov 2024
North West Farmer

Look out for grain trains

ROAD users during harvest are advised to exercise caution at level crossings and while sharing the road with trucks and heavy vehicles. During this year’s harvest, four return grain services will run per week on the Murray Basin line from...

18 Nov 2024
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Farming and Environment

Stubbles an important forage

WITH headers coming out of sheds across the Mallee in the next few weeks there are some big numbers involved which tend to escape people. Such as stubbles, and what they are truly worth to mixed operations and graziers. Across Australi...

22 Oct 2024
North West Farmer

Jury reaches verdict with horticulture career

A THIRD generation local from Robinvale is forging a national career in the horticulture industry, just six years after graduating from Melbourne University. Will Jury, the only son of Robinvale growers Trevor and Clare Jury was promoted...

20 Oct 2024
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Ploughing through the cropping-information overload

In many ways, our growers should not be relying so heavily on spraying providing all the solutions. For example, if you have signs of disease at the tillering stage, it is something of a Catch-22: you need to do the maths to see if...

19 Oct 2024
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
North West Farmer

Hosking stands for VFF president

QUAMBATOOK grain and livestock farmer Brett Hosking has thrown his hat into the ring for president of the Victorian Farmers Federation. A former vice president of the peak farm body and respected agriculture leader and advocate, Mr...

19 Oct 2024
News

Super changes to hit farmers with assets in SMSF

FARMERS are on the warpath over Canberra’s proposed superannuation changes. And they are joining forces with the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia with dire warnings the changes will adversely impact thousands of hardworking...

22 Aug 2024
North West Farmer

Gallasch’s vision changed the game

Hundreds, probably thousands, and certainly generations, of irrigators across Sunraysia and into SA’s Riverland are very successful at what they do, because of one man in particular. Richard Wells, a Merbein irrigator for 52 years, says Malcolm...

19 Aug 2024
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Nangiloc new frontline in Varroa mite fight

AGRICULTURE Victoria staff have announced the European honeybee parasite known as varroa mite has been detected for the first time in Victoria at a hive at Nangiloc. The parasite was found during routine checking of beehives used as part of almond...

15 Aug 2024
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Rising rates an issue for broadacre farmers

MILDURA-based agribusiness financial specialist Janine McLean has said a recent Regional Investment Corporation (RIC) announcement of another rate rise is hardly likely to be greeted with open arms by the region’s primary producers. The Agri Plus...

10 Aug 2024
Innovation

Drones capturing key insights

SUNRAYSIA and the Mallee have been under the StevTech microscope for the past six years and nothing appears to be escaping its eagle eyes. As farms get bigger, some jobs get that bit harder – including finding time to scout for weeds...

20 Jul 2024
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Bird flu battle goes high tech

VICTORIAN authorities has turned to hi-tech in a bid to contain its avian flu outbreak, which has impacted on close to 8 per cent of the nation’s egg production. The Agriculture Department is backing up its traditional containment zone approach...

12 Jul 2024