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Field Days

Biggest and best yet

THEY do things big at Speed – but in 2024 the little town that roars really outdid itself. The 44th incarnation of its Mallee Machinery Field Days smacked it clean out of the park with the biggest display of machinery in its history. And when we say...

20 Aug 2024
North West Farmer

Keep dry soils productive

MALLEE farmers are encouraged to take advantage of Agriculture Victoria’s new online resources and paddock walks to learn how to reduce erosion and make their soil more productive. Agriculture Victoria mixed-farming development...

20 Mar 2024
News

Neale Bennett: From Dried Fruits to Almonds - A Story of Adaptation and Resilience

MERBEIN almond grower Neale Bennett reckons he is ahead of schedule in this year’s harvest. And he’s not just talking about the two, 21-acre blocks he runs with wife Debbie. Because, in his spare time, he and a mate are also harvest contractors...

09 Mar 2024
North West Farmer

Building new connections

Mallee Sustainable Farming’s new managing director, Jenny Garonne, is an avowed collaborator who will draw on her 30 years of experience in leadership roles. ANDREW MOLE reports. COMING out of four years as a chief executive in the age care...

18 Feb 2024
North West Farmer

Oxin: The Autonomous Farmhand Revolutionizing Vineyards

THERE’S an overnight success story almost a decade in the making that is quietly working its way through the Duxton vineyards near Balranald. In layman’s language, it is a farmhand. But a farmhand like no one has seen before. And the...

02 Feb 2024
North West Farmer

Leap of faith leads to training in Spain

AFTER about a decade working in the printing industry, Jayden Westhead decided it was time to pull up his roots and jump into the world of horticulture. The budding apprentice had always loved plants...

04 Oct 2023
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North West Farmer

Tricky harvest a sweet success

POMEGRANATES were once known as “the fruit of the dead”, but a Colignan couple’s crimson-coloured crop is poised to maintain its vital signs for many years to come. Florist Paige Woods and agronomist Tristan Smith bought Karingal Gardens Pomegranates...

14 Apr 2023
North West Farmer

Sunshine returns for citrus industry

IF the Sunraysia (and Australian) citrus industry is looking to turn the corner, 2023 could be the start of something special. After two intensive days of the Citrus Australia Market Outlook Forum in Mildura last week, chief executive...

17 Mar 2023
North West Farmer

Students harvest benefits

CITRUS Australia’s Market Outlook Forum this month lent a hand to local students keen on a future in the industry. About a dozen Mildura Senior College students joined the forum’s farm tour before going on to hear key industry...

16 Mar 2023
North West Farmer

African migrants have amasing success on community demonstration farm

The Burundian, her face lit by a warm smile, resplendent in traditional dress, is serenely walking through a flourishing garden, a huge load of freshly harvested produce piled high on her head. And she is just minutes from Mildura’s CBD. On five...

10 Mar 2023
Livestock

Abattoir a business boost for emu farm

Pioneering can, sadly, often be the path to penury. Particularly in agriculture, where people who dare to do things differently to the generations who have gone before often fall by the wayside. Victims of disinterest, distrust, even disbelief. But 30...

13 Feb 2023
Field Days

Speedy recovery as Mallee Field Days attracts huge crowds

Mallee Machinery Field Days are not just back, they are on the cusp of a whole new era to financially underpin ongoing success. Field Days’ secretary Matt Brady says from 2023 there will be its first major sponsorships – and they have...

04 Aug 2022
Field Days

Glad to be back for field days

IT’S as cliched as you get, but when the organisers of the 2022 Mallee Machinery Field Days say they are glad to be back, and back on track, not even the big smile on the face of secretary Matt Brady can diminish the sincerity of the message. Two...

19 Aug 2022
North West Farmer

Open rivers are a fish’s friend

ABOUT 150 Murray Darling rainbowfish were released into the Mildura Riverfront Endangered Fish Nursery on Sunday, World Environment Day. Hardy Sunraysia locals braved the cold at Ornamental Lakes to learn about the river and fish...

09 Jun 2022