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Diversity at Glen Innes
11 Feb 12 | MINIMAL tillage and a focus on enhancing soil condition while consecutively reducing inputs and increasing yields, has been part of a diversity improvement program critical to the long-term sustainability of the Burridge family’s Northern Tablelands mixed enterprise.
Diversity crops up in Kojonup
10 Feb 12 | CASH cropping at Kojonup has proved to be an adaptable and opportunistic venture undertaken by a large majority of the region's farmers.
Summer oilseeds come off
10 Feb 12 | SUMMER oilseeds are being harvested throughout the country, with sunflowers and safflower the major two crops in production.   | Farmers’ grain stoush | Clear path to a million
Clear path to a million
10 Feb 12 | CLEAR Grain Exchange, the online trading house that pioneered the digital revolution in grain marketing when it launched in 2008, has passed a major milestone, trading its millionth tonne this year.  | CommentsComments (3)
On the hunt for Grains Section Management group: SAFF
10 Feb 12 | THE South Australian Farmers Federation (SAFF) is sending out nomination packs to its grain grower members inviting them to ‘throw their hats in the ring’ for a new Grains Section Management group to drive its re-established Grains Section.
Timing, numbers crucial to 'Snot the Snails' strategy
10 Feb 12 | FOR effective snail control, farmers need to 'know their enemy' in terms of identifying the types of snails on their property, their densities, sizes and behaviour.   | Snail biocontrol trial results ... | EP in race against snails
Dry spell driving up hay demand
10 Feb 12 | RECENT dry conditions have lifted demand for hay earlier than usual with farmers in some areas already at the stage of feeding out because pastures are drying-up.   | Value buying as sales season ... | Pack, rack and stack small hay ...
Farmers’ grain stoush
10 Feb 12 | A PUSH from within the State’s peak farmer body to dump its own grains committee has failed.   | CommentsComments (1)
Glyphosate 'dumping' on the nose
09 Feb 12 | CLAIMS that imports of Chinese glyphosate have leapt by almost 400 per cent because they are "dumped" in Australia for less than prices at home will be tested by federal customs officials.  | CommentsComments (11) | Fert prices drop off | Revolutions hamper fertiliser ...
09 Feb 12 | GRAIN growers around Victoria are encouraged to attend the two-night Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Annual Grains Conference in Echuca-Moama on 26-28 February.
Grain Growers not right choice for WA: PGA
08 Feb 12 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association (PGA) has questioned any benefits for West Australian grain growers under the recent arrangement between Eastern States based Grain Growers Ltd and the WA Farmers’ Federation.   | CommentsComments (5)
Fortified wheat could be foreign aid
08 Feb 12 | THE most valuable aid that Australia could lend to some developing countries is zinc-fortified wheat, a visiting crop researcher has said.
Fight to beat blackleg
08 Feb 12 | LOWER Eyre Peninsula has the unenviable reputation of being 'ground zero' for new virulent strains of blackleg.
Grain gains from soil biology research
07 Feb 12 | THE science of soil biology is following on the heels of minimum till farming - hailed as the next productivity revolution and a potential source of widespread gains in the cropping sector.
Message service gives pea growers green light to avoid blackspot
07 Feb 12 | TECHNOLOGY is coming to the aid of South Australian field pea growers looking to avoid blackspot infection as they sow their crops this coming season.
Food security on the agenda at Dubbo Grains Update
07 Feb 12 | THE latest on global food security and the implications for the Australian grains industry will be presented to advisers and growers at the upcoming Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Update in Dubbo.  | CommentsComments (1)
Consumers key to ethanol success
05 Feb 12 | GAINING further consumer acceptance rather than continuing low grain prices is the key to a strong Australian ethanol industry, according to United Petroleum’s ethanol general manager David Szymczak.   | CommentsComments (1)
Wet summer slows hay market
04 Feb 12 | FOR Denman district hay producer Richard Hordern, having some regular, “bread and butter” type clients has proven handy during wet seasons such as this summer.
Blazing an African trail
03 Feb 12 | FORMER Victorian farmer Mick Dennis still faces the same problems of droughts, floods, weeds and insects as he would back home – just in a very different environment, nestling near Mount Kilimanjaro in the eastern African nation of Tanzania.  | Bumper summer | Working on an exhaustive answer
Working on an exhaustive answer
03 Feb 12 | WITH the spectre of climate change meaning carbon emissions are an increasingly dirty word across the globe, developers of a technology whereby exhaust emissions from machinery are captured and put back into the soil are hopeful they will be able to allow farmers to markedly cut emissions.  | CommentsComments (26) | SMS to give pea growers green ... | Western growers in search of ...
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