Jan 05, 2018
Great advice on Financial Farm planning
Rob Brown from Peppin Planners, Deniliquin uses a list of ten checks to help family farms address fundamental financial questions.These checks include:Check 1 – Understanding why checklists work.Along with reflective thinking and…
Jan 04, 2018
Sexing Semen is not new, but it's becoming big business
When it comes to breeding cows, Oakfield Corners Dairy in upstate New York would rather not let nature take its course.To ensure his prime milk-makers produce daughters, Oakfield partner Jonathan Lamb is willing to pay as much as…
Jan 04, 2018
Jason Trompf to run Days Whiteface "Bred Well, Fed Well" Workshop
Lachy and Lou Day, of Days Whiteface, Bordertown, South Australia will be hosting one of the first MLA “Bred Well, Fed Well” cattle workshops on the 22nd of January 2018. This will be one the first of these workshops to be run in…
Jan 04, 2018
Toyota and HiLux sells 47,093 vehicles to top list again
Toyota has delivered its best sales in five years, boosted by a record tally for the popular HiLux which topped the sales charts as Australia's best-selling vehicle for the second year in a row.The industry-leading performance by…
Jan 04, 2018
DEXA hot carcass trials continues
Work is ongoing with DEXA and the calibration studies are underway. Hook tracking is now working well in the Victorian abattoirs – and we expect Bordertown to be operational by late December 2017.The AMPC project for making a new…
Jan 04, 2018
Livestock Farmers need to adopt a Cropping Farmers approach - Jack England
Precision agriculture (PA) and variable rate technology (VRT) have long been used by the cropping industry to enhance productivity, while the livestock sector has often lagged behind in its uptake of these technologies.However, a…
Jan 04, 2018
CSIRO helping Farmers - More bacon and eggs for breakfast
New concepts for protein in Weight Management, affirms the benefits of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet for weight control and reveals that the latest scientific evidence supports eating at least 25 grams of protein at each main meal…
Jan 03, 2018
CSD trials expand from Emerald to Swan Hill
Just as the cotton growing area has expanded in 2017, so too has Cotton Seed Distributors’ trial program. With more than 125 trials being conducted by CSD’s Extension & Development (E&D) agronomists this season, the trials program…
Jan 03, 2018
Massive fire at Thomas Foods - Murray Bridge
Thomas Foods International's meat works were heavily damaged by fire last, January 3.Employees were safely and quickly evacuated, but the factory's largest building was destroyed at a cost which will likely run into the millions of…
Jan 03, 2018
Cotton Growers affected by spray drift - Emergency meeting called
The Walgett Cotton Growers’ Association (CGA) has called an emergency meeting to discuss the impact of spray drift, and agronomic strategies to recover damaged cotton crops, in northern NSW.Vice Chair of the Walgett Cotton Growers’…
Jan 03, 2018
Six nominations for CBH Member Director Elections
Following the closure of nominations for the 2018 CBH Group Member Director Elections at 12.00pm on Tuesday, 2 January, the Western Australian Electoral Commission (WAEC) has advised the CBH Group that there are six nominations for…
Jan 03, 2018
GrainCorp Harvest update to the 2nd of January 2018
Site Since last update (mt) Total (mt)Queensland 3000 556,500NSW 84,500 2,061,000Victoria …
Jan 03, 2018
Ukraine's Ban on Selling Land is hurting the Economy
The 1,400 acres of snowy farmland being churned into thick black mud by grumbling trucks and house-high red harvesters could be a picture of rural prosperity.Instead, the early winter scene about 250 miles west of Kiev illustrates…
Jan 02, 2018
Global Milk market will confront a wave of exportable surplus
The “rising tide of milk” has seen sentiment in the global dairy industry begin to wane, as growth in exportable surpluses across key milk-producing regions gains momentum, according to Rabobank’s latest Dairy Quarterly report.The…
Jan 02, 2018
Supply Chain rethink - Reliance on Saleyards needs to be less
Australia’s sheepmeat industry may export to more than 65 countries across the globe and enjoy good demand domestically, but a new report from 2015 Nuffield Scholar, Michael Craig, shows there may now be value in moving away from…
Jan 02, 2018
Pulses help grass weed control in SA's Mallee
When soil nitrogen levels started to become a limiting factor in South Australian grower Robin Schaefer’s cereal performance, he began to look for alternative sources.Although the Nuffield Australia scholar, from Loxton, had already…
Jan 02, 2018
Biography of our new Agriculture Minister - David Littlproud
David Littleproud was elected to the House of Representatives as the Member for Maranoa, Queensland, in 2016. He was born and raised in Chinchilla and is married to Sarah. David and Sarah reside in Warwick are the proud parents of…
Jan 02, 2018
Speed Breeding Wheat under lights
NASA experiments to grow wheat in space were the inspiration for University of Queensland scientists to develop the world’s first ‘speed breeding’ procedures here on planet Earth.UQ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation…
Jan 01, 2018
Watch the video from our partner Loadshift
Loadshift Director and Founder, Phil Callaghan, chats with us about Loadshift's 10th year, looking at some of the noticeable trends in transport across 2017, some of the stories we came across and what we can expect of Loadshift in…
Jan 01, 2018
BeefLedger brings Blockchain to the Cattle Industry
A digital platform called BeefLedger is currently being developed. This platform will allow beef producers and consumers to access authenticated information about the history and origin of meat products. Using a secure and digital…
