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Andrew Mole

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...

10 hours ago

North West Farmer

Cash to weed out pests

THE Victorian Government has opened up the next round of funding under the state’s Partnerships Against Pests grants program. The effort makes grants of between $10,000 and $50,000 available so community groups can “build the skills and resources to...

23 May 2025

Livestock

Mallee ram sales shine in 2024

ELDERS Victoria/Riverina stud stock manager Ross Milne is upbeat about the 2025 ram selling market after Mallee studs outperformed during the 2024 spring ram sale season. He said the industry “has been in its ram selling season since...

03 Jan 2025

North West Farmer

New shell caters to pistachio growth

AUSTRALIA’S emerging pistachio industry has taken a quantum leap this week at Bannerton, 8km south of Robinvale, with the official unveiling of the Australian Pioneer Pistachio Company’s state-of-art pistachio hulling facility. The...

30 Nov 2024

North West Farmer

Elders eyeing a Delta deal

THE Mallee and north-west Victoria’s leading agricultural agency business is about to go through its biggest shake-up in decades. Adelaide-based Elders only needs an ACCC rubber stamp early next year to formalise its $475 million...

26 Nov 2024

Innovation

Why tracking data is the pathway to growth

ANDREW MOLEINSERO founder Greg Guyette is another technology provider who believes one of agriculture’s biggest challenges continues to be change. The US-based precision agriculture advocate was in Australia for the Australian Almond Conference in...

20 Oct 2024

North West Farmer

Less could be more when feeding the world

MOTTI Levin isn’t pulling any punches about the future of farming – from here in the Mallee to anywhere in the world. He hasn’t got the time to do anything else, he’s way too busy globetrotting to sell the message that unless...

20 Oct 2024

North West Farmer

When an upgrade is on-brand perfection

YOU can’t beat it. Get a key piece of farm machinery and use it successfully, season in and season out. Then realise if you upgrade – with the same brand of course – it actually means more money in your pocket and more time to do...

20 Oct 2024

North West Farmer

Trials help design farms’ future

BIRCHIP Cropping Group has catapulted onto the national stage as a co-ordinator of the National Variety Trials. BCG is this year in charge of 176 trial sites across Victoria in parallel with its own extensive agronomic research. All are...

14 Jun 2024

Wine Grapes

Spotlight on wine future

INDUSTRY and government big guns will be in Mildura next Wednesday, when critical issues confronting wine-grape growers and winemakers headline the Murray Valley Winegrowers Outlook Forum. MVW chief executive Paul Derrico said speakers...

07 Jun 2024

North West Farmer

Birchip Cropping Group Honors Lifetime Service

LIFE membership has that ring of service about it, but when just two couples can contribute a combined 128 years to a single organisation, you get the feeling they deserve some sort of recognition. In the case of Birchip Cropping...

08 Mar 2024

North West Farmer

Red alert hits Riverland

YEARS of reality checks and persistent communications by Murray Valley Winegrowers have prepared the region’s wine grape growers for the price collapse that this week sent South Australia’s Riverland into crisis talks and meltdown. S...

24 Feb 2024