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Dairy

Iced coffee definitely still coming

I WISH I had never opened my big mouth and said the iced coffee was close. I am an idiot – albeit in a loveable, innocent farm boy kind of way. But nevertheless, a complete nincompoop. What I should have said, probably what I meant to say but...

22 Jul 2025
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...

22 Jul 2025
Livestock

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...

22 Jul 2025
Wine Grapes

A different kind of dry July

THERE will be a fair bit of fantasy in this report, which might also contain a fair bit of fortune telling at the same time, as our North West Farmer editor is supposedly doing the Kokoda Track and required this report to be compiled more than three...

22 Jul 2025
Opinion

The worker conundrum

I WELL remember the old man telling me about the good old days, when a bale of wool bought him a new car. Well, those days, I can assure you, are long gone. Nowadays the boffins at AWI suggest you would need at least 30 bales of wool – and with...

22 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
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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
North West Farmer

Elders takeover halted

THE bid by farms services giant Elders to complete its $475 million takeover of Delta Agribusiness has hit a roadblock with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The corporate watchdog has issued a statement of interest (SOI) indicating...

21 Jul 2025
North West Farmer

The NPG wants you and you

THE National Policy Group is looking for southern region representatives covering southern New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Applications open later this year and you can track the opportunity at www. graingrowers. com. auThe second NPG meeting...

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
News

NSW biosecurity gets cash boost

BIOSECURITY in New South Wales is set to receive an increase of $140 million in funding. This year’s state budget the Government has announced a focus on strengthening NSW’s biosecurity program with and primary industries research...

11 Jul 2025
Environment

Farmers call for action on wild dogs

A PEEK farming sector body is calling for better action on wild dogs from the Victorian State Government as the region’s drought gets worse. Victorian Farmers Federation vice-president Peter Star said there were fears mooted changes to...

27 Jun 2025
Environment

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
Dairy

Theres cold, and then theres wet and cold

JUNE should be reserved for hibernating – it’s cold, it’s hard to get motivated. And while wet is wonderful for all farmers, right now it’s wet and cold. Did you know in Iceland on Christmas Eve they have a tradition where everyone reads books...

21 Jun 2025
Water

Water org unveils customer committees

GOULBURN-Murray Water has announced the inaugural members of its new customer committees, including in the western region and pumped irrigation districts of Nyah, Tresco and Woorinen. The customer committees will provide insight and feedback on the...

20 Jun 2025