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Andrew Mole

Tackling the region’s rodents

WALPEUP in the heart Mallee has become the frontline in the rodent wars, and Victoria’s only benchmark and rapid assessment site, making it part of a national network tackling the ongoing – often crippling – threat of mouse activity to...

21 Jun 2025

News

Its crunch time for farmers and your voice matters

IF you ask a farmer what’s keeping them up at night, odds are you’ll likely hear one of the following answers:* Our devastating drought.* The ever-encroaching energy infrastructure that’s steam rolling through our farmland.* We’re told...

20 Jun 2025

Opinion

Once upon a time...

IT’S probably the realm of the old to sit back and think about those good old days, when the world really was a much better place. For the sake of the conversation, let’s call it a rite of passage. You know how they say scent is a powerful reminder...

20 Jun 2025

Machinery

Talking technology with JD

NORTH West Farmer talks to John Deere Australia and New Zealand small ag and turf marketing manager Erin Wagstaff about some of her company’s products and technology which can help Australian tree crop growers. Erin, can you tell us about Smart...

20 Jun 2025

North West Farmer

What a grape opportunity

A LARGE-scale generational opportunity in commercial table grapes at Koorlong, about 15 kilometres southwest of Mildura, is for sale by expression of interest. After more than 30 years in the same family, the enterprise known as 888 Produce at 3784...

20 Jun 2025

News

Mice the target of rodent study

WALPEUP in the heart Mallee has become the frontline in the rodent wars – and Victoria’s only benchmark and rapid assessment site. Making it part of a national network tackling the ongoing – often crippling – threat of mouse activity to...

01 Jun 2025

Livestock

Webinar explores by-product feeding options

LIVESTOCK owners looking to use alternative feeds as the drought continues in the southwest and dry conditions extend in other parts of the state, are urged to be aware of the risks and limitations. As most by-products are produced as surplus from...

18 May 2025

Livestock

Council needs to strategically review its whole future direction

SWAN Hill Rural City Council’s proposal to ‘strategically review’ the future of what it describes as its financially underperforming saleyards has sparked deep concern across the region, and rightly so. Because in these turbulent economic...

18 May 2025

Opinion

Have we got the energy for the next fight?

IT’S not my style to stick the old nose in where it may not necessarily be required, as you would all know, but watching things going on across my part of the world I feel my advice will be most welcome – even if not yet invited. How many of you...

17 May 2025

Dryland Farming

BCG says theres dough in dry sowing

BIRCHIP Cropping Group research has shown the practice of dry sowing has become increasingly common with frequent years of below average rainfall in the sowing season. And what is emerging is that dry sowing, where crops are sown into a dry seed bed...

17 May 2025

Livestock

Dont be sheepish, have a say about your future

TWICE a year, Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and Australian Wool Innovation conduct the sheep producer intentions survey, and it is now open for responses for the rest of this month. One of MLA’s essential roles is to collect, analyse and...

16 May 2025

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

Chislett Farms use bio-stimulants as a gamechanger

AN innovative bio-stimulant – about to launch under new ownership at premier trade show Hort Connections in Brisbane next month – has already made an impact at third-generation Victorian citrus operation Chislett Farms, where it has been in use...

16 May 2025