North West Farmer

New program about better pathways

MEAT & Livestock Australia (MLA) has unveiled the new Pasture Pathways program for grazing advisors, with applications open for interested groups to participate. Pasture Pathways is a training and development initiative designed to equip new...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

How to get ripper results

MALLEE Sustainable Farming says when you are spending big on soil amelioration, every pass of the ripper counts. That’s why the GRDC national grower network project Optimising Soil Amelioration in Typical Mallee Soils set out to answer a big...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Workshop about addressing acidity

SOIL scientists, agronomists and grain growers from across Australia have come together in Adelaide for an important National Soil Acidity Workshop. The workshop was a chance for the 62 attendees to share experiences and learnings and to discuss...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Youre never too busy to learn

As an agricultural adviser, Dr Kate Burke’s role is to help producers make strong on-farm decisions to improve their operation. And she’s just one of the hundreds of advisers across Australia helping those producers expand the productivity and...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Processing purchase will prove a gamechanger

OK, OK, OK, so since last time, I have had a lovely jaunt to Lakes Entrance and back to pull apart some processing equipment Gippsland Jersey has stopped using – its old to them, pre-loved to me, and 10 times faster than we are currently...

26 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Skills training about life on the land

WOMEN way out west in New South Wales – somewhere beyond the crossroads of mainstream communities – have been given an intensive leadership skills training program targeting farming women in the Wentworth-Pooncarie districts. Beyond the...

26 Apr 2025

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Video

ULTRAWHITE SHINES BRIGHT AT ROSEDALE

Rosedale Stud UltraWhite ewe lambs 9-10 mths, ready to go out with some ram lambs. With an average weight at post weaning assessment of 67.2kg they also recorded an ASBV average PWWT 11.7, with a high of 12.9 and PEMD of 2.18, with a high of 2.74...

29 Aug 2023

News

Sea Lake service technician named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year

Haeusler’s John Deere Sea Lake service technician Lachlan Corridan was named Australian Agriculture & Turf Service Technician of the Year at an awards ceremony in Brisbane last night. John Deere Australia and New Zealand managing director, Luke...

25 Aug 2023

Video

Ultra good results for Induro’s Ultra Whites

Guy Treweek’s Wakool, NSW, based Induro White Suffolk stud already had a blue-ribbon reputation for the quality of the rams it produced. But in the very short time it has also started breeding Ultra White sheep, it has raised the bar to new...

08 Aug 2023

Grapes on the go

WE completed our wine grape harvest with the last three trucks of Lambrusco Maestri last week. We are happy with the result and only had to harvest a small amount onto the ground that couldn’t be sold. Fertiliser is being put through the irrigation...

26 Apr 2025

Livestock

Open call to offer best practices

IF any meat producers in northwest Victoria or southwest New South Wales want to run a local project to improve their enterprises, they have until May 12 to apply for producer demonstration sites (PDS) funding. The PDS open call – for projects to...

25 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Bugs getting the chop

FOR leading Australian citrus grower and exporter Darren Minter of Iraak’s Minter Magic, several months of complete pest control ensures his export pack-out consistently meets China’s strict first-grade protocol. The fourth-generation producer...

25 Apr 2025

Opinion

Preserving the Anzac’s legacy

IT’S Easter again. Seems like Christmas was only last week. But more importantly, for me, next week it’s also Anzac Day. And before you put your foot right in it, please don’t tell me how excited you are to have so many public holidays running back...

25 Apr 2025

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