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…
Mar 19, 2021
Pretty boring old day for the Wool Market
Karee Wool market report for the South - Mar 18th SMI: 1236 -118: 1770 uc19: 1564 -320: 1366 +1021: 1283 +122: 1256 +128: 511 ucMer card: 903 +8Pass in: 21.5% AUD: 0.78 **List your commercial Sheep, Cattle, Rams or Bulls…
Mar 19, 2021
Heavy Sheep rise up to $22/head at Wagga Wagga
Yarding - 32,400 (-8600).Lambs - 24,500 (-6500).Sheep - 7900 (-2100) Lamb numbers fell as a result of last week’s decline in prices. Trade weight lambs 20 to 24kg in reasonable supply. Heavy lamb classes were well supplied with…
Mar 18, 2021
Summer Crop rounding the halfway mark
By Tyson Hosie - AWB The past week has seen some handy rainfall totals down the East Coast, with Queensland and Northern New South Wales the primary benefactors. Those with later Summer crops planted, especially in…
Mar 18, 2021
Softer across all categories at Ballarat
Yarding - 39,468 (-11,250) Lambs - 28,992 (-7827) Sheep - 10,476 (-3423) Agents penned 29,992 Lambs, the quality was mixed with a range from plain to very good. All the usual buying group attended, but not all operated fully. There…
Mar 16, 2021
Wool prices hit a snag
Karee Wool market report for the South - Mar 16th SMI: 1242 -2618: 1784 -4119: 1578 -2320: 1358 -4221: 1286 -1822: 1253 -2028: 511 -19Mer card: 898 +9Pass in: 9.8% AUD: 0.78 **List your commercial Sheep, Cattle,…
Mar 16, 2021
Grain Report - Weather woes persist for South American row crops…
By Peter McMeekin Brazil and Argentina's weather situation has been a tale of opposites in recent weeks, and agricultural output is suffering. Too much rain continues to delay both the soybean harvest and planting of the…
Mar 16, 2021
New Machinery sales continues an upward trend
By TMA The sales of agricultural tractors have now completed their twelfth (12th) consecutive month of record sales to be 34% ahead on an annualised basis compared to the same time last year. 2020 saw tractor…
Mar 16, 2021
Lambs off $10-$15 at Bendigo
Yarding - 29,000 (+9500).Lambs - 21,000 (+7000).Sheep - 8000 (+2500) Increased supply, with lamb numbers lifting to 21,000 head, or 7,000 more. Quality remained mixed, comprising very good lambs off grain and lucerne through to plainer…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Farmers Business Network (FBN) dives into the Livestock game
By Lauren Manning - Ag Funder News Farmers Business Network (FBN) is hoping to provide livestock producers with some of the same support services that it has offered its row crop-producing members after acquiring two companies…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Waves of change, the next 90 years
Read the Prime Future Newsletter here and subscribe. By Janette Barnard - Prime Future Friends - Today I’m excited to share (1) some news, and (2) some thoughts on the Farmers Business Network announcement about…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Investing in Digital solutions for Ag
By Gwen Scheresky - Bushel In today’s business environment, digital solutions are becoming more important to facilitate business with customers wherever they need. We sat down with Adam Jackson, a merchandiser from…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Goldacres explores Autonomous spraying technology
By Goldacres Autonomous spraying technology with help from Bilberry, Swarm Farm robotic agriculture and Goldacres. Goldacres technical guru, David Tuppen recently commissioned a fully autonomous sprayer with green on green weed detection…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - The promises and pitfalls of making livestock sustainable
By Kirsten Diprose - Ag Thentic Listen to the podcast here. There’s an argument that the only way to be sustainable when it comes to meat, is to not eat it all. It’s true that cow digestion (burps)…
Mar 14, 2021
Ag Tech Sunday - Digital Ag Transport Start up opens up its platform
By Roger Roger, a technology solution for the dry bulk freight industry, announced today that it has opened its ecosystem to give all dry bulk truck shippers and carriers access to its suite of cost-saving, revenue-generating…
Mar 13, 2021
Farm Land prices are through the roof
Locals were left in shock after a couple of Farm Land parcels went to Auction on Friday (12/3). A 632-acre block at Wallaloo East (near Marnoo, Vic) made $6300 an acre and was sold to a Farmer. Meanwhile, at Tatyoon (near Ararat,…
