Jun 01, 2020
World Grain Report - Drought in Thailand is good news for Australian Barley growers
Severe drought in Thailand in the first five months of 2020 has adversely affected the production of off-season (dry-season) rice and corn, primarily due to a lack of irrigation water as reservoirs are critically low. This will decrease…
Jun 01, 2020
Getting to the Root of Soil Compaction
By K-Line AGOnce seeding is done, many crop producers breathe a sigh of relief as the frenetic pace of the planting season slows. However, the work of raising crops doesn’t stop when planting does. The performance of grain crops during…
Jun 01, 2020
Live Goat export market decimated during COVID-19
Live goat exports from Australia have dropped by 85% in the first quarter of the year. Despite that Ramadan season is one of the most profitable for live goat exporters, with Malaysia being the largest export market, this year the…
Jun 01, 2020
Sheep sold to dearer rates at Bendigo
Yarding - 17,000 (+3000).Lambs - 14,000 (+2000).Sheep - 3000 (+1000).It was a similar sized yarding of lambs ahead of next week's public holiday. Quality remained reasonable for this time of year, with a lot of lambs still being sold…
Jun 01, 2020
Dairy Profile - Sheather Family, Biggara Valley, NSW
By RabobankWith four generations of the family living on their Upper Murray dairy property, ongoing business improvement and succession planning go hand-in-hand for husband and wife team, Craig and Jo Sheather.The Sheathers’ home…
Jun 01, 2020
Cattle Farmers no strangers to trade tensions
By Peta Ward - Westpac AgribusinessHaving grown up on a cattle property in Australia’s largest beef producing state of Queensland and now being a banker to many of the state’s largest beef producers, it’s clear China’s recent decision…
May 31, 2020
Four seasons of continuous improvement for Seed Terminator
By See TerminatorIts nearly crunch time for farmers thinking about buying machinery that needs to be installed before June 30 to take advantage of increased instant tax write-offs due to COVID-19.Dr Nick Berry, inventor of the Seed…
May 31, 2020
Dairy Connect Newsletter - A Moment with Morgan
By Shaughn Morgan - Dairy ConnectRecent months have brought uncertainty for Australian agriculture and the economy generally. The advent of COVID-19 has become the burden on the top of a rather difficult few years for the Australian…
May 31, 2020
Will the world’s breadbaskets become less reliable?
By Jonathan Woetzel, Dickon Pinner, Hamid Samandari, Hauke Engel, Mekala Krishnan, Nicolas Denis, and Tilman Melzer - McKinsey & CompanyClimate change could affect food production through both continuous environmental changes—for…
May 31, 2020
Stone Axe Pastoral win Wagyu Beef grand champion
By Seedstock CentralThe results for the 2020 Wagyu Branded Beef Competition have now been announced and watched by viewers from within the Wagyu industry, hospitality and retail via an online live streamed award ceremony.Broadcast…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - Check out the Video of the John Deere Autonomous Tractor
By John DeereJohn Deere s new autonomous tractor concept is a very compact electric drive unit with integrated attachment. The tractor has a total output of 500kW and can be equipped with either wheels or tracks.Check out the video…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - Digital Agenda
By Robbie Sefton - Robbie Sefton has a dual investment in rural Australia as a farmer, producing wool, meat and grains, and as managing director of national marketing communications company Seftons.If nothing else, COVID-19 has reinforced…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - BeefLedger kicks off new cross border platform project
By BeefLedgerBeefLedger is pleased to announce the beginning of its next significant national interest Research & Development project in collaboration with Future Food Systems CRC and Queensland University of Technology (QUT).The…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - AXIchain is helping Australia to stay ahead of the curve
By David Picker - Principal Relationship Manager, AXIchainAXIchain is helping the Australian livestock and red meat industries to move to a completely paperless digitised documentation supply chain. In a collaborative consultation…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - Cultivating a New Era at AgVend
By AgVendWe started AgVend to help both ag retailers and growers leverage technology to do business together more efficiently. We aimed to give our Partner Retailers a new channel of revenue to combat the pressures felt by third-party…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - Digital Farm records and reports simplify a complex operation
By AgriWebbBurrawang West Station Ootha, NSWOperation type Sheep Area 7,300 HA Stock 9,500 Head Average rainfall 483 mmThere are a lot of moving parts to the operation Malcolm Brady manages at Burrawang West Station, near Ootha in…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - AI relieves data drought for Farmers
By Pamela Tyers - CSIROWe use digital data in our everyday lives, and now there is a way to break the ‘data drought’ for our farmers. Let’s face it, they’ve certainly had a rough trot lately.Our farmers have stared down the barrel…
May 30, 2020
Ag Tech Sunday - The Omnichannel Farmer
By Maddie Little - BushelIt’s a perceived double stereotype in present agriculture. On one side stands a vision of an avocado toast-eating, snap-back hat-wearing, “Hold on, let me finish this Tweet,” phone -dependent young farmer.…
May 29, 2020
How to stop your sales reps holding you to ransom
By St John Craner - Teacher and trainer for rural sales and marketing to the primary sector, media contributor, mentor & Kellogg scholar. https://www.agrarian.co.nz/See the original article hereRural reps often regard your customers…
May 28, 2020
Strong market at Wagga Wagga this week
Yarding - 35,000 (+5000).Lambs - 28,000 (+6000).Sheep - 7000 (-1000).Numbers were moderately higher. Agents offered another stellar run of heavy and extra export lambs, with the bulk of the offering weighing in excess of 30/kg carcass…
