Ag production value and volume soars
Australia’s farmers are on track to smash production value and volume records in 2021-22 on the back of exceptional seasonal conditions and a surge...
Maize trials deliver good news
With skyrocketing nitrogen (N) prices and a shortage of supply, results from an irrigated maize trial series have delivered good news to growers looking...
Aussie farmers benefit from new research
An important stream of funding for research and activities to benefit South Australian grain growers is now on offer.
The South Australian Grain Industry Trust...
Roo Permit Warning
Eyre Peninsula farmers need to ensure they have a permit before culling kangaroos on their properties.
The Environment and Water Department issued the warning this...
Price rises challenging farmers
Escalating prices of chemicals and fertilisers have farmers assessing their best options for the 2022/23 cropping program.
Damien Elson of Cleve said pricing was damaging...
Warm weather welcomed as harvest resumes
This week’s warm weather was warmly anticipated by Eyre Peninsula cereal growers as soon as it was forecast.
One of those was Mount Drummond farmer...
Grain put through falling numbers after heavy rain
It is the old farming adage - you haven’t got a bumper crop until it is in the silo.
That is the case this year...
Relentless rain threatening grain prices
Continued spring rains have left Eyre Peninsula farmers feeling nervous over the possible lowering of grain quality.
According to SA grain industry experts, growers are...
Ewe are never too young to join the wool industry
Charlotte Hodge has just finished year 11 at Cleve Area School but she’s already working.
Charlotte, 17, hails from Cockaleechie - between Cummins and Tumby...
Scholarships help boost ag industry
Eyre Peninsula students keen to further their agriculture studies are urged to apply for the 2021 round of the Rural Bank scholarships.
The funds are...
A year to remember at Penong
For Penong-based football club Western United the sun has begun to set on the type of calendar year most country clubs around the state...
