May 18, 2018
Faster computers breeding better plants
By Richard Heath - Australian Farm InstituteAgTech Takeaways - the expanded menu (part 3): In March, I participated in an Austrade-facilitated Australian Agtech Delegation to the US and wrote a blog about my takeaways with four main…
May 18, 2018
Always learning growing Canola
In 1991, canola plantings across Australia covered 151,000 hectares. By 2016-17 – just 25 years later – that area had ballooned to 2.3 million hectares, with growers producing more than four million tonnes of the oilseed.According…
May 18, 2018
Business is enabled by good telecoms
By Robbie SeftonIt’s been getting some bad press, but I love this digital age we have arrived at in the 21st Century.In common with 95% of Australia’s adult population, I carry with me a small slab of glass and metal encasing far…
May 18, 2018
Rabobank sees growth in Horticulture and Viticulture - New role created
Agribusiness banking specialist Rabobank has announced the appointment of Hayden Higgins to head up its horticulture and wine sector research.Mr Higgins joins the bank’s food and agribusiness research team from his role as major agribusiness…
May 18, 2018
DEXA take centre stage and wins CRCA Award for Excellence in Innovation
The sheep meat industry’s role in developing the new DEXA meat grading system has been awarded a prestigious Awards for Excellence in Innovation from the Cooperative Research Centres Association.The award is recognition for the benefits…
May 18, 2018
Amazing Wool Market up 52 cents and heading toward the 2000 cent mark
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolThe wool market continued to break through record levels this week as trade buyers looked to cover orders on a diminishing wool supply.The Eastern market indicator increased by 52 cents clean to finish…
May 17, 2018
55 Farms Newsletter - Combine sales up 59 percent in the US
By Casey Collin - www.55farms.comThis week the Association of Equipment Manufacturers reported that combine sales have rose to a 59 percent increase compared to this time last year as producers and custom harvesters prepare for this…
May 17, 2018
Live cattle exports, climate and price risk management
by Matt Dalgleish - MecardoThe debate continues to rage around the live export of sheep to the Middle East and recently a Victorian MP, Sarah Henderson, lent their support to the banning of the trade of live sheep in the upcoming…
May 17, 2018
Fashion brand Country Road adopts traceable wool program
This week Country Road launched its Australian Traceable Merino Collection, which includes 29,000 units of traceable wool across its men and women’s ranges. The wool used in this collection can be traced back to just 25 farms in Australia.This…
May 17, 2018
Newly formed Sheep Producers Australia searching for a CEO
The Board of Sheep Producers Australia will start its search for a Chief Executive Officer this week to lead the recently formed organisation as it represents the interests of the nation’s lamb and sheepmeat producers both within…
May 17, 2018
Streamlined board for Hereford Australia
A new, streamlined board has been announced for Herefords Australia under the leadership of chairman and Victorian breeder Bill Kee.The Board of Directors has been reduced from 12 to seven following the adoption of a new constitution…
May 17, 2018
Setting a new course for the Livestock Export Industry
Just more than a month ago, I saw footage that shocked and angered me and all Australians. The community was understandably outraged. It was time this industry became transparent and accountable.I immediately called a short, sharp…
May 17, 2018
Barnaby Bank finds a home in Orange NSW
* Regional Investment Corporation (RIC) board to be headquartered in Orange * The board considered several regional cities and their suitability for the RIC * Work continues on getting the RIC open for the benefit of farmers…
May 16, 2018
The Cotton Industry is changing
By Craig McDonald, Extension & Development Agronomist – Central NSWAs someone who has been out of the direct cotton industry for several years it has been very interesting returning to work directly in cotton again. There have been…
May 16, 2018
In the grip of drought the NSW Government appoints Pip Job as the States Drought Coordinator
With more than a third of NSW in drought or approaching drought, the NSW Government has announced the appointment of former National Rural Woman of the Year and respected agriculture leader, Pip Job, as the State’s Drought Coordinator.Premier…
May 16, 2018
Managing for profit and preserving the landscape
EIGHT years ago, when my wife Susannah and I took over the family’s cropping operations in Moree, we realised we had a major disadvantage: not only was it taking me twice as long to spray the paddocks as some neighbours, I was doing…
May 16, 2018
Ag Tech - Talk to the Farmers first
by Andrew Lai and April Heasley, SproutX"Necessity is the mother of invention”, and the more you understand your customer's problems and needs, the higher your chances are of developing a successful new product.Steve Jobs, one of…
May 16, 2018
Video - Wilmot Cattle Co outline how they go about
Watch the brilliant video on how the Wilmot Cattle Co outline how they go about - https://youtu.be/mBOecq1q35Q
May 16, 2018
Case on Case works for the Galls
Red on red is a winning combination. Just ask third-generation farmer Jack Gall, who works alongside father Greg and brother Sam on a family operation near Goorambat, Victoria, where they farm canola, wheat, oats, beans and grow sheep.…
May 16, 2018
Nicoletti's entire Farming operations up for sale
CBRE is offering for sale the Nicoletti Group, one of Australia's largest cropping properties.The opportunity consists of five high quality broad hectare grain farming operations of unprecedented scale (approximately 68,000* combined…
