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Record early start to harvest

Despite a dry winter most Eyre Peninsula farmers are expecting average or better crops this harvest - something eagerly anticipated given falling sheep prices. At...

Farmers best to set harvest code

The Grain Harvest Code should be left to farmers and fire danger ratings to the Country Fire Service, according to CFS Eastern Eyre Group...

Study provides valuable information

The completion of the Resilient EP project ensures farmers are better placed to increase the productive potential of Eyre Peninsula’s soil and water resources. Agricultural...

Increased average recorded at sale

She-Oak Lodge Suffolk stud recorded an increased average of $1480 across its offering of Suffolk and White Suffolk rams, with two rams achieving a...

New technology seen in action

Farmers had the chance to see how mobile satellite coverage could allow them to use better farm technology at a demonstration day at Brooker...

Sea Acres holds first stud sale

Sea Acres Australian White registered stud held its first combined field day and ram sale on its Tumby Bay farm on August 23. It had...

Weed control saves sandy soil crops

Sandy soils on coastal farms around Cowell are promising to produce near-record crops this season. Mitchellville farmer Ty Kaden said that was despite going “close...

Glenville auction tops $16,000

Glenville Merino and Poll Merino Stud sold its top-priced lot at this year’s on-property auction for $16,000 to Mark Hoffrichter of Marramville Stud, near...

$4000 donated to Cancer Council

The O’Brien family showed its thanks for one of their own successfully navigating his way past cancer, by donating the proceeds of a stud...

$24,000 top price matched

White River’s Merino and Poll Merino Stud’s ram sale equalled its top price for a poll Merino ram at its annual event on Thursday,...

Putting sportsmanship back into sport

Putting the sportsmanship back into sport is key to Learning Life Through Sport. Paramount to the program from its instigator Rod Campbell is respect for...