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eNewsletter - Volume 29
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The GreenStar™ AutoTrac™ Assisted-Steering System from John Deere helps operators gain more efficiency in the field by reducing passes, saving fuel, and reducing operator fatigue.
The NSW Department of Primary Industries’ Geological Survey Director, Lindsay Gilligan has been honoured in the 2008 Queens Birthday Awards with a prestigious Public Service Medal.
With a strong regional approach, Men's Health Week 2008 (held between 7 - 15 June) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the importance of men’s health issues and to encourage men to focus on their health and wellbeing.
Continuing its successful tour of drought affected regions of Australia, the Australian Government Drought Bus will visit the Riverina towns of Cootamundra, Temora, West Wyalong, Narrandera, Leeton and Griffith during June.
Located in Canning Vale, Western Australia, Gerrard Hydraulics is a recognised leader in hydraulic sales and service across all industry sectors, for the supply and servicing of hydraulic components. An Honorary Fellow with CSIRO Entomology, Mr Alan Dyce, has been awarded the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science by the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology.
Peak horticulture organisation Growcom is hosting a free bus tour for Bundaberg horticulture growers and industry representatives who are interested in taking a closer look at farm improvements aimed at achieving long term productivity, profitability and sustainability.
Financial performance of beef producers in northern Australia is projected to improve in 2007-08 but to remain subdued for producers in southern Australia, according to a new ABARE report.
The combined revenue of the Hitachi Group companies is well in excess of $500m annually and the Group provides employment to more than 500 Australians across the country. On-going drought means the fodder industry continues to struggle to maintain adequate, good quality supply which limits Australian livestock production.
Paddock preparation and seeding progressed throughout the month, however light, patchy rainfall in some districts slowed seeding operations with crops going in under marginal moisture conditions. Good follow-up rains are needed to keep the season on track.
Grain Licensing Authority (GLA) chairman Wayne Obst announced the approval of two special export licences, one for 45,000 tonnes of canola to the Sub-continent and one for 40,000 tonnes of canola to the Middle East.
The Gripple Plus succeeds the Gripple, a first-to-market product for Waratah in the late 1980s, and is designed to help Australian farmers overcome the challenges of joining and tensioning wire fences. The Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) and the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) are encouraging landholders in the eastern and southern Wheatbelt to continue to control wild dogs on their properties to protect lambs.
Chemical properties in some native plants have the ability to stop sheep suffering from a debilitating stomach condition known as lactic acidosis.
Australia’s domestic dairy market is continuing to deliver respectable volume and value growth, according to Dairy Australia’s Situation and Outlook report released.
Choose the model best for you.The Australian dairy industry is enjoying the best world market conditions in decades – however it remains constrained by milk production costs; uncertain climatic conditions; and limits on national herd growth.
Australia can help alleviate the looming world food crisis by cleverly integrating an emerging biofuels industry with mainstream agriculture.
A National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) detailed proposal for an Australian Government-backed ‘pilot programme’ under a new Seasonal Worker Visa to allow Pacific Islanders to fill entry-level positions in Australia’s horticultural sector.
The interest in improving irrigation systems and techniques in rural and urban situations in Australia was highlighted in Melbourne when record numbers attended the biennial Irrigation Australia Exhibition and Conference. Orchardists are able to relax a little now that summer crops are harvested, but gentle reminders such as the need to apply sprays over coming months to protect against bacterial and fungal disease invasion are part of a free service provided by the Department of Agriculture and Food through Orchard Alert.
The Department of Agriculture and Food is encouraging landholders to adequately manage fruit trees and vines to prevent pests and diseases from spreading to neighbouring properties.
It appears the modern Western Australian is no longer content to spit grape pips, but rather prefers to consume seedless grapes.
Paddy Platypus and his good friend PRIME Possum have learnt about the SES' roles in using four wheel drives and Community First Response. Queensland Sugar Limited has tabled a workable solution that would retain the critical ‘single’ export desk, by which the sugar marketing group currently markets over 80% of Australia’s raw sugar into the international marketplace.
With the introduction of the minimum protein level for delivery of malting barley, significant tonnages of Baudin and Gairdner, with grain protein less than 9.5 per cent, have been downgraded to feed, directly affecting grower profit.
The international science community must devote more resources to research into the effects climate change is having on ocean environments.
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A man has received a record fine after more than 8,000 oysters (703 dozen) which were unsafe for human consumption were seized at the Sydney Fish Market.
Mines and Energy Minister Chris Natt congratulated mining company OM (Manganese) Ltd for exporting its one millionth tonne of manganese ore from its Bootu Creek mine near Tennant Creek.
The Western Australian Farmers Federation (Inc.) (WAFarmers) hope that a noted proportion of the States newest Police Officers are allocated to rural and regional Western Australia, although the Government may need to explain why their families will not have access to dental services.