Mar 30, 2021
Prices fluctuated at Bendigo
Yarding - 21,000 (+5100).Lambs - 17,000 (+6000).Sheep - 4000 (-900) An increased lamb offering ahead of the Easter holiday period which cancels next Monday's sale. The yarding was dominated by a mixed quality line-up of heavy…
Mar 28, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Israel’s CropX partners with NASA Harvest for agtech initiatives
Agricultural analytics platform for farm management, CropX, has partnered with NASA Harvest, NASA’s food security and agricultural program, to provide the latter with soil insights for its global monitoring efforts of agriculture.…
Mar 28, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Testing New Farm Technologies
Project Bin Buster tries out new technologies to help growers make data-based in-season decisions. Bill McDonnell of Syngenta harvests corn at the Farm of the Future near Ottawa, Illinois, as part of a test of a soil probe…
Mar 28, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - The Ag Tech Adoption Dilemma: Irrigation
By Kirsten Diprose - Ag Thentic Group Listen to the podcast here. We have the technology to measure and improve water efficiency on farms. Yet, the rate of adoption has remained low. Why is this? Given the importance…
Mar 26, 2021
Rain spurs price rises at Wagga Wagga
Yarding - 42,000 (+9600).Lambs - 35,500 (+12,000).Sheep - 5500 (-2400) Elevated rain gauges and higher prices at all major sales this week inspired producers to offload bigger numbers of trade and heavy lambs. Trade weight lambs 21…
Mar 25, 2021
Position Available - Sales Account Manager - Farm Tender Auctions (FTA)
Farm Tender Auctions (FTA) – Job Description Role: Sales Account Manager - Farm Tender Auctions (FTA) Applicants must have an Agricultural background and a solid understanding of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment…
Mar 25, 2021
Instant Asset write off - What does it mean going forward?
By ORM The Instant Asset Write-Off and Temporary Full Expensing, what does it all mean? As COVID-19 and the various restrictions around it continue to bite, the Federal Government have introduced a number of initiatives…
Mar 25, 2021
Another steady day for the Wool market
Karee Wool market report for the South - Mar 24th
SMI: 1241 +118: 1785 +419: 1573 uc20: 1364 -1021: 1273 -1022: 1249 -728: 519 +6Mer card: 898 +13Pass in: 13.0%
AUD: 0.76
Mar 24, 2021
Tightening ocean freight felt by Grain markets
By Samuel Reichstein - AWB Local conditions are all the talk as weather events around the country begin to shape the coming season. But while these local conditions are all important, agriculture is a global industry and…
Mar 24, 2021
Some good price increases at Ballarat
Yarding - 37,412 (-2056) Lambs - 28,503 (-489) Sheep - 8909 (-1567) Agents yarded 28,500 lambs, the quality was plain to very good with all weights and grades offered throughout the yarding. All the usual buying group attended, bidding…
Mar 23, 2021
Wool steady
Karee Wool market report for the South - Mar 23rd
SMI: 1240 +418: 1781 +1119: 1573 +920: 1374 +821: 1283 uc22: 1256 uc28: 513 +2Mer card: 885 -18Pass in: 7.4%
AUD: 0.77
Mar 23, 2021
Farm Tender Hay Report - Have the domestic Hay market dynamics changed forever?
Have the domestic Hay market dynamics changed forever? For the fortnight up to the 23rd of March 2021. Firstly, what's happening along the coastal areas of New South Wales is devastating, and our best wishes go…
Mar 23, 2021
Hot sea freight market boosting Australian export opportunities…
By Peter McMeekin A significant spike in ocean freight rates, driven by strong demand for grain and coal vessels, is creating some turmoil in the dry bulk commodity market at the moment as consumers and the trade scramble to…
Mar 23, 2021
Prices varied for Mutton and Lamb at Bendigo
Yarding - 15,900 (-13,100).Lambs - 11,000 (-10,000).Sheep - 4900 (-3100) Lamb numbers nearly halved following widespread rain. Sheep numbers also declined to 4,900 head. There was some excellent drafts of heavy fed lambs alongside…
Mar 21, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Agriculture Megatrends
By Robbie Sefton Let's face it – there’s very little to get truly excited about in the news media these days. If it’s not a story about the Coronavirus pandemic, or the latest political or Royal…
Mar 21, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Why everything you think you know about Irrigation technology is wrong
Irrigation is pivotal to the global agricultural economy. Though only 16% of the world's croplands are irrigated today, those lands produce 36% of the global annual yield. In developing countries, irrigation increases yields…
Mar 21, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Three ways tech can change Ag
By Sam Watson Jones - Co-Founder and President at Small Robot Company A few years ago, I was sitting in my office on the farm, and I saw a chart which made me totally re-think my business. The 3rd Agricultural…
Mar 21, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - FBN adds 17 branded biological Crop protection products
By FBN Farmer’s Business Network, Inc. (FBN®), the independent farmer-to-farmer network, today announced its launch of 17 new biological products available to US-based members through FBN Direct®. …
Mar 21, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Tenacious Ventures invests in CSIRO spin-out RapidAIM
By Komal Patel - Tenacious Ventures There is an inexorable shift toward lower chemical intensity production in agriculture. Many consumers, food companies, and increasingly farmers are all looking for ways to reduce or remove…
Mar 19, 2021
Australian Lamb – From Rising Star to Star Performer
By Tim McRae - Auctionsplus The Australian lamb industry over the past two decades has been a standout performer across the agricultural landscape. From a rising star in the early 2000’s, the value of the industry has…
