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Peter Bannan

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

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

Keeping your finger on pulses

ANYONE in the Mallee growing pulses and wanting to get a bigger bang for their buck will want to be at the pulse field day being held at Rupanyup on Wednesday next weekAgriculture Victoria, Frontier Farming Systems and Grains Research &...

09 Nov 2024

North West Farmer

Mobiles guide to pest reporting

PLANT Health Australia has launched its revamped Growers Guide to Pest Reporting and Responses course on the Biosecurity Online Training platform. This newly updated, mobile-friendly course is designed to fit seamlessly into the busy lives of...

09 Nov 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

North West Farmer

New direction so good, you could bottle it

ANDREW MOLE FOR a guy who wasn’t even interested in looking at Karadoc Winery when it came on the market – its sudden sale by Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) sending seismic shockwaves through the Sunraysia – Mark Dyson still scratches his head...

19 Oct 2024

North West Farmer

Having a grape time down on the farm

THE warmer weather is great for the grapevines and hopefully the chance of further frosts has now passed, and we can dodge the summer storms that some say are ahead. Many wine regions have seen losses from the frosts last month, but it’s looking...

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

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

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

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

Avos on the up and up

HOLY guacamole, the avocado industry is on target for a record production year and Barham Avocados is one of the producers looking at big numbers coming out of its Murray River orchards. Production forecasts show a 139,000-tonne crop nationally for...

05 Jul 2024