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North West Farmer

Be alert to the butterfly effect

YOU may have seen these white butterflies, in your garden, on the street or flying onto your car while driving along the Murray Valley Highway. And while they do look beautiful fluttering about, they present a clear and present...

15 Feb 2024
North West Farmer

Farms want no slugs

BIOSECURITY at our borders is the big news, but one leading researcher says there are problems just as big at the next property – or in the next truck passing through. Entomologist Michael Nash said slugs and snails were problems on the...

02 Feb 2024
Vegetables

European tour for vegetable growers

A GROUP of Australian vegetable growers is studying export opportunities, following the UK free trade agreement and negotiations with the European Union. The group of 13 vegetable growers and industry representatives were travelling to Spain, the...

25 Oct 2023
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The Minters at Red Cliffs did not have all their eggs in the one basket – farming asparagus, citrus and almonds.

The Minter family at Red Cliffs have not relied on one crop – they are farming asparagus, citrus and almonds.

28 Jul 2023
Vegetables

Block put to use with willing help

BRITT MacNamara is today an Out of the Box regular. As a supplier, not a customer. Since she acted on a whimsical moment – her father-in-law suggested she do something useful with the block she, husband Carl and their children Port...

21 Feb 2023
Vegetables

Fresh ways to keep food local

IS Sunraysia a national food bowl? Absolutely. But if you live there, is your food bowl a local farm, or is it the local supermarket?And when is fresh a fact, rather than a marketing solution, when it comes to the food you cook every day...

18 Feb 2023
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New path ticks the boxes

OUT of the Box was not just a foundation customer for Merbein’s Ben Mitchell, it was almost confirmation he had made the right decision in becoming a market gardener. A partnership which began in cyberspace in his part-time fledgling...

17 Feb 2023
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How to harvest a holiday

THE Gina Rineharts of the world aside, most farmers farm to live. By the same token, most of them also absolutely live to farm. In NSW, however, Trentham Cliffs farmer Britt MacNamara has a slightly different take on the agricultural...

10 Feb 2023
North West Farmer

Snails

A new $4.6 million research project led by the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), is set to provide Australian graingrowers with new tools and management techniques to...

20 Dec 2022
Vegetables

Growers struggle despite price rises

Major retailers are now pushing suppliers to sharpen their pencils with their production costs and make savings where they can. But AUSVEG says “there appears to be a lack of understanding of the challenges growers are facing in our...

01 Dec 2022
North West Farmer

Beat fruit fly to your garden

FRUIT Fly Murray Valley is urging the community to consider the damaging impact of fruit fly when planting their vegetable gardens this year -- before it’s too late to save their produce.

25 Nov 2022
North West Farmer

Reducing risk of fungicide resistance

SOME of the key management factors in reducing the risk of fungicide resistance include:• Monitor fungicide resistance: The early detection of resistance increases the chance that its development can be managed and stopped. It is therefore...

18 Nov 2022
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Sea of green points to good harvest

SURROUNDED by a sea of green, the Millewa’s farmers have every reason to be optimistic that a good growing season will lead to a great harvest, so long as things keep going right. The weather this...

22 Aug 2022
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From 50 acres to a thriving family empire

There is one thing about the generational family farming business, just ask Wemen’s Andrew Young. As he recalls it, his late father Allan, who founded the family dynasty on 50 acres at Nangiloc in 1955, took his own sweet time in having that toughest...

19 Aug 2022
North West Farmer

On a winner with fertilisers

Peter Harrick at Agri Turf Management reckons his farming clients are on a winner with the range of biological fertilisers. In the wider market, Peter says the fertilisers are primarily ligno organically chelated liquid nutrients – as both a liquid...

18 Aug 2022
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Geo-politics is farming’s big issue, says Minter

“If I can’t export it, there’s no way I’m growing it.“That’s where almost 100 years of Sunraysia farming has taken the Minter family – from agriculture to geo-politics. And Darren Minter is adamant Australia has a lot to fix if its farmers are...

15 Jul 2022
Vegetables

Passionate grower pursues perfect garlic

THE Festival Creole sounds like a wild time at New Orleans but it’s actually a variety of garlic that’s part of grower Peter Hackett’s relentless search for the next big thing. Garlic is one of 700-odd species in the allium or onion family...

05 Jul 2022