News

New program about better pathways

MEAT & Livestock Australia (MLA) has unveiled the new Pasture Pathways program for grazing advisors, with applications open for interested groups to participate. Pasture Pathways is a training and development initiative designed to equip new...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

How to get ripper results

MALLEE Sustainable Farming says when you are spending big on soil amelioration, every pass of the ripper counts. That’s why the GRDC national grower network project Optimising Soil Amelioration in Typical Mallee Soils set out to answer a big...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Workshop about addressing acidity

SOIL scientists, agronomists and grain growers from across Australia have come together in Adelaide for an important National Soil Acidity Workshop. The workshop was a chance for the 62 attendees to share experiences and learnings and to discuss...

27 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Processing purchase will prove a gamechanger

OK, OK, OK, so since last time, I have had a lovely jaunt to Lakes Entrance and back to pull apart some processing equipment Gippsland Jersey has stopped using – its old to them, pre-loved to me, and 10 times faster than we are currently...

26 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Skills training about life on the land

WOMEN way out west in New South Wales – somewhere beyond the crossroads of mainstream communities – have been given an intensive leadership skills training program targeting farming women in the Wentworth-Pooncarie districts. Beyond the...

26 Apr 2025

Wine Grapes

Grapes on the go

WE completed our wine grape harvest with the last three trucks of Lambrusco Maestri last week. We are happy with the result and only had to harvest a small amount onto the ground that couldn’t be sold. Fertiliser is being put through the irrigation...

26 Apr 2025

Open call to offer best practices

IF any meat producers in northwest Victoria or southwest New South Wales want to run a local project to improve their enterprises, they have until May 12 to apply for producer demonstration sites (PDS) funding. The PDS open call – for projects to...

25 Apr 2025

News

PDS strategy is paying dividends

AGRICULTURE Victoria producer demonstration sites (PDS) in the northern Mallee have been working to increase lambs weaned by five to 10 per cent using strategies such as pregnancy scanning, nutrition management, optimising joining length, and...

25 Apr 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

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

SOLD! Almonds are hot property right now

THE new almond selling season is only just beginning, but it’s off to a great start after two successful overseas trade missions. Sales estimated at more than $100 million were made by almond marketers at MEWA in India and Gulfood in the United...

25 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Bugs getting the chop

FOR leading Australian citrus grower and exporter Darren Minter of Iraak’s Minter Magic, several months of complete pest control ensures his export pack-out consistently meets China’s strict first-grade protocol. The fourth-generation producer...

25 Apr 2025

Livestock

How to get the most out of your ewe

WITH demand for mutton across northwest Victoria going through the roof, AWI extension specialist James Tyson is pointing at reproductive performance as the cornerstone of long-term performance and profitability. Mr Tyson told North West Farmer...

25 Apr 2025

North West Farmer

Look often for pests

AS a grower, you’ve probably seen and controlled more pests than me, your agronomist and your rural supplier combined. Our job is to offer insights and details on reducing losses while increasing your production of very desirable citrus fruit. My...

25 Apr 2025

Citrus, Stone Fruit & Nuts

Almond season a success

AUSTRALIAN almonds have experienced a boom during the 2024-25 selling season with volumes up 29 per cent to an unprecedented 169,541 tonnes (kernel weight equivalent).This represents an estimated sales value in excess of $1 billion. Domestic sales...

25 Apr 2025

Machinery

Poultry Pro ready to roll

YOU could buy a lot of Easter eggs with Dieci’s industry leading $5000 cashback on its Poultry Pro 30.7 telehandler. But it’s for a very limited time – you’ve only got until April 30 to get your order in (and you can check it all out at...

25 Apr 2025

Livestock

Sheep on show

OUYEN’S Kevin Crooke and Danni Wilson have been driving forces behind the Wimmera Autumn Merino Sheep Show, but after dedicating the past five years to getting it off the ground – and running it – they are taking a backseat in 2026. And after the...

18 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