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North West Farmer

Pricing indicators out

MLA’s National Livestock Reporting Service has released two new pricing indicators – the national feeder heifer indicator, and the online sheep indicator. Their release will broaden MLA’s indicator offering, filling coverage gaps across sales...

16 hours ago

North West Farmer

Wool org spots open

AUSTRALIAN Wool Innovation (AWI) has announced the three director positions that will be vacated ahead of this November’s annual general meeting. Chairman Jock Laurie is retiring and not seeking re-election in line with the company’s 10-year...

16 hours ago

North West Farmer

Roughage still needed

WITH the escalating price of hay and the availability of other feed, supplements producers might be asking themselves if they really need to feed roughage this winter. Ag Victoria northern region senior veterinary officer Jeff Cave said there is no...

20 hours ago

North West Farmer

Seemingly never-ending farmer cost burdens must end

VICTORIA’S farmers are being squeezed from every direction. Drought conditions, soaring input costs and volatile global markets have already placed unprecedented pressure on agricultural producers...

21 Jul 2025

Education

Apprentice up for national nod

HENRY Barkley has been prepared to go a long way to realise his dream of becoming a John Deere service technician. What started as a fun time during school holidays, helping out on his uncle’s farm outside South Australia’s famed Barossa Valley...

21 Jul 2025

North West Farmer

Soil studies stalled

Katherine Dunsford is a research scientist with Agriculture Victoria based at Horsham. She completed her PhD in understanding the causes of poor grain yield responses to N and P Fertilisers in 2019. Her areas of research include crop nutrition...

21 Jul 2025

News

Veggie org adds to compliance conversation

AUSVEG, the peak industry body for Australia’s vegetable industry, has weighed into the compliance controversy which has targeted the Sunraysia as one of the worst agricultural regions in the country for ripping off mostly seasonal...

21 Jul 2025

News

Farming families look to future

DAIRY farmers with a new direction – Paul Monigatti, and his wife Katrina, and brother Bryan and his wife Bev – today run Rich River Chaff and Grain across two properties. One at Strathallan in northern Victoria and a second at Pretty Pine near...

21 Jul 2025

Dryland Farming

Growth for grain industry

THE GRDC is kickstarting engagement to shape the next phase of research, development and extension investment aimed at tackling long-term challenges and unlocking breakthrough opportunities for Australia’s grain industry. The engagement follows the...

21 Jul 2025

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

Almond industry cops a spray

Tim Jackson Chief executive, Almond Board of AustraliaTHE nation’s leading expert of spray effectiveness and a leading research on insect management from California will be among the main attractions at the Almond industry’s Research and...

21 Jul 2025

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18 Jul 2025

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

Buyers go nuts over star power

THE new almond season has kicked off with a strong start to sales. Despite concerns around the crop size, the ongoing challenges with managing carpophilus beetle and carob moth and uncertainty of...

20 Jun 2025