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Dryland Farming
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
Farming and Environment

Go early, go deep with sowing

IN mid-autumn last year, there was good subsoil moisture available in many cropping paddocks after summer rains, presenting farmers with the opportunity to get cereals established early through deep sowing. To investigate how this compares to the...

12 May 2025
Farming and Environment

About turn on Mallee farm values

MALLEE farmland values have recorded the first decline in a decade with sale volumes reaching an all time low in 2024. According to the Bendigo Bank Agribusiness Australian Farmland Values report, the Mallee region recorded a modest 1.2 per cent...

11 May 2025
Dryland Farming

Frosty start to farming career

Baden Gray graduated from Marcus Oldham in 2023 and headed home to his future on the farm just in time to see a year’s hard work smashed by frost and belted by rain at harvest. But he’s adamant farming’s where he wants to go – it’s been his...

25 Apr 2025
North West Farmer

Farmers call to abandon levy

IT’S a sad reality Victorian farmers, families, and small business owners are once again in the firing line of another poorly conceived government tax proposal, this time the proposed expansion of the emergency services...

18 Apr 2025
Innovation

Audreys in action on farmings frontline

Behind farming’s frontline – and in the paddocks – is a diverse and dynamic network of researchers working hard with growers and industry to redefine the role of pulses in Australian farming. Audrey Delahunty is one of...

29 Mar 2025
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Dryland Farming

Now, for something completely different

DANNI Wilson from Tamaleuca Merino and Poll Merino stud at Ouyen doesn’t mind admitting she makes some “different” decisions about the things she does. This includes buying 2000 acres of Mallee land five or six years ago to try her hand at...

21 Mar 2025
Dryland Farming

Ferrier feels trials review passed with flying colours

IF you’ve never heard of Jil Jil, or have absolutely no idea where it is, you’re not the only one. Birchip Cropping Group chairman John Ferrier has got used to saying he farms about 25 kilometres north of Birchip itself, where his family farms...

21 Mar 2025
Dryland Farming

Harvesting the power of progress in the Mallee

COMING off a tough 2024 for most farmers across northwest Victoria, Mallee Sustainable Farming is ramping up a new series of programs, research initiatives, and events in 2025 to support dryland farmers. And not just in Victoria but also into...

21 Feb 2025
North West Farmer

Grain records fall but Victoria misses out

GRAIN receival sites in the GrainCorp network have recorded their highest receivals in more than 10 years, with receival records falling in Queensland and New South Wales. Harvest activity has wound up across both states and in Victoria, with totals...

21 Feb 2025
Machinery

Excitement of the autonomous

A 2022 study tour to northern NSW and Queensland sparked a revolution in the Victorian Mallee for Kyle Pearse and his family on their mixed cropping and sheep enterprise. Mr Pearse is a Birchip Cropping Group member and also part of...

20 Jan 2025
North West Farmer

Making hay when the sun shines - too much

LOW rainfall in winter and spring in many districts across northwest Victoria, and in the southern Mallee, has made it harder to produce good quality hay this season. However, once it has been made it’s important to store it to minimise yield and...

22 Dec 2024
Dryland Farming

Spray warnings - get the drift

GRAIN Producers Australia is urging growers to be alert, vigilant and proactive, to maintain high standards for pesticide application, and protect crops from spray drift damage. GPA’s timely warning comes after Cotton Australia recently raised...

21 Dec 2024
News

Harvest 2024: it never rains but it pours

LIKE many other graingrowers, Victorian Farmers Federation grains council president and Millewa broadacre cropper Craig Henderson admits this harvest could have been a lot worse. But it certainly could have been a lot better. And he said looking...

20 Dec 2024
Dryland Farming

Wheat falling number may improve after storage

GRAINGROWERS generally experience anxiety when the falling number test machine comes out at harvest, but new preliminary research findings suggest wheat falling number test results could improve with time in storage. This research explored the...

20 Dec 2024
North West Farmer

When it comes to carbon, not all soils are the soils you think

MALLEE Sustainable Farming has been funded for a project to promote action to optimise or increase soil carbon in southwest NSW. Soil carbon is a hot topic in agriculture, but what does it really mean for farmers in low-rainfall areas such as...

22 Nov 2024
Dryland Farming

Dont get wild about oats, get their measure

WIDESPREAD across most of Victoria, wild oats are a common weed of cereal crops, pastures, roadsides and waste places, including the margins of swamps, lakes and streams. The Mallee – like most Victorian cropping areas – is confronted with weed...

21 Nov 2024