30 Sep 10 | STUDENTS and kids in the kitchen are the focus of the next round of Meat & Livestock Australia’s ‘Red meat. Amazing food’ campaign, which highlights to consumers the nutritional benefits of eating red meat 3–4 times a week.
30 Sep 10 | RESEARCH supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) will lead to a better understanding of how pesticide resistance in redlegged earth mites (RLEM) spreads.
30 Sep 10 | LAMB prices have risen 23 per cent in the 12 months to August 2010 due to strong export and restocker demand, according to the National Australia Bank (NAB).
30 Sep 10 | TRANSPORT Minister Simon O'Brien has reconvened the Strategic Grain Network Committee (SGNC) to review the progress of recommendations made in the committee's original 2009 report into the future viability of WA's ageing grain rail network.
30 Sep 10 | WAFARMERS will continue pushing for the introduction of a government-backed multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) scheme as a way to improve grain grower risk management profiles.
30 Sep 10 | HOLLANDS Rock farmer Noel Bairstow is part of a group of farmers and former farmers that have been working together behind the scenes during the past couple of years to develop a risk management crop insurance scheme.
29 Sep 10 | THE CBH grain carting contract, which has been held by the Australian Railroad Group (ARG) for 70 years, has gone out to tender, leaving local train drivers concerned about their future.
29 Sep 10 | A NEW website featuring information, links and stories about organic agriculture has been launched by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC).
29 Sep 10 | WHILE cigarettes are banned at this year's Smoke Free Perth Royal Show, there were plenty of stud cattle and sheep exhibitors on fire with a top quality line-up of livestock being assessed in the first week of the competition.
29 Sep 10 | RAY Harrington has attended 25 field days throughout Australia during the past eight weeks showcasing the Harrington Seed Destructor (HSD) to eager farmers and industry members who have had enough of weeds.
29 Sep 10 | GROWERS at last week's WA No-Tillage Farmers Association (WANTFA) spring field day came to see crop trials but it was the high amount of industry involvement on-site that had people talking.
29 Sep 10 | SERVICING the knives of your header this harvest will be the difference between putting money in the bank and throwing it on the ground, according to Glen Riethmuller from the Agriculture and Food Department's Dryland Research Institute in Merredin.
28 Sep 10 | A MALE alpaca from Victoria's Windsong Valley stud has been sold for a new Australian price record of $150,000.
28 Sep 10 | A BLUE dye has been used to reveal the movement of water applied through drip irrigation on Western Australia’s sandy soils of the coastal plain.
28 Sep 10 | FARMERS thinking of capitalising on good prospects for selling pasture seed in 2011 should start preparing as soon as possible.
28 Sep 10 | NEW blackleg nurseries and monitoring sites have been established in Western Australia this year under increased Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) investment into the damaging canola disease.
28 Sep 10 | MORE than 100 farmers in Western Australia have applied for income support as part of a trial of drought assistance reforms that has coincided with a poor season for the state's grain growers.
28 Sep 10 | FARMERS are urging the federal government to work with insurance companies to help them protect their crops against drought, as part of an overhaul of farm support to encourage them to manage risk and prepare for tough times.
28 Sep 10 | WEST Australian shoppers can expect to pay more their pork as Christmas approaches.
27 Sep 10 | FCSTONE Australia is building on its position as a major force in the commodity risk management sector in Australia, with the recently announced acquisition of boutique investment bank the Provident Group by its parent company, International Assets Holding Corporation (INTL).
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