19/11/2008 | NORTHERN Wheatbelt grain growers raised the production bar this week to take advantage of fine weather before forecast rain on the weekend.
18/11/2008 | Harvest contractors and farmers alike are buying up headers as insurance for the upcoming summer crop harvest.
17/11/2008 | The Australian Cereal Rust Control Program has confirmed that a sample of stripe rust collected from a wheat crop in north-east Victoria is the first Australian pathotype with virulence for the Yr27 resistance gene.
12/11/2008 | WESTERN Australia has despatched its first shipment of newly harvested wheat under the deregulated wheat export system which took effect on July 1.
12/11/2008 | Yellow spot, a stubble borne fungal disease of wheat causing up to 30pc yield loss, is being investigated in a two-year GRDC supported trial at Meckering and Geraldton in WA.
12/11/2008 | Chris Newman, GRDC supported technical officer with DAFWA, says cooling stored grain using an ambient air aeration system provides great benefits to growers marketing grain.
11/11/2008 | Wheat growers will soon have access to Government-funded market information in a bid to help them maximise their returns under the deregulated wheat export marketing system.
10/11/2008 | The well-documented worldwide decline in the number of bees and other pollinators is not, at this stage, limiting global crop yields, according to the results of an international study published in the latest edition of the respected science journal, Current Biology.
10/11/2008 | Estimated Pool Returns for all wheat grades in the AWB 2007/08 National Pools remain unchanged following the company's latest fortnightly review.
10/11/2008 | More than 50pc of the total crop of grain delivered to the CBH Group this harvest will be quality assured.
8/11/2008 | Australian farmers are a famously innovative lot, and the GRDC wants to tap into that inventiveness by challenging producers to provide ideas to help growers compete more effectively on the world market.
3/11/2008 | Innovative research ideas can now be fast-tracked to the Grains Research and Development Corporation through the latest round of 'E-concept' funding.
3/11/2008 | WA grain growers can rest assured they will be paid for this year's harvest after the CBH Group announced it had finalised funding facilities totalling around $2 billion.
31/10/2008 | WA's pro-GM farmers have applauded new Agriculture Minister Terry Redman's decision to begin progressing a path forward for the implementation of trials of genetically modified canola and cotton in Western Australia and to allow open debate on GM–free areas.
30/10/2008 | The Department of Agriculture and Food has declared that Vlamingh seed will be free to trade (farmer to farmer) in Western Australia from November this year, following the normal expiry of the two year restricted trading period.
30/10/2008 | A newly released GRDC Fact Sheet on rust management is advising growers not to grow susceptible or very susceptible wheat varieties.
30/10/2008 | Dr Darshan Sharma, DAFWA, reports that harvested wheat at a high rainfall site in York has yielded significantly lower than the rainfall-limited potential, a finding attributed largely to high nematode infestation.
29/10/2008 | At last, fertiliser prices are starting to slide
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Comments (1) | More data needed for grain ... | Productive medics an easy option
29/10/2008 | Rains come in nick of time for Esperance
28/10/2008 | There is now growing agreement between industry analysts that Australia’s wheat harvest for 2008-09 will be substantially less than 20 million tones.
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