Jun 16, 2018
Video - Tips to preventing Calf loss
Dr Kylie Schooley, a veterinarian and beef producer from southern Queensland, describes the journey for her family business to recognise and overcome productivity issues including calf loss. In this Calf Alive symposium presentation,…
Jun 16, 2018
John Deere introduces its Bale Mobile app
John Deere introduces its Bale Mobile app to help hay and forage producers get detailed information, improve efficiency, identify bale characteristics and track yields to make decision making easier.Using John Deere Bale Mobile, producers…
Jun 16, 2018
Why is winter the best time to control fleabane?
Controlling the weed, flaxleaf fleabane, continues to be a challenge for grain growers in Queensland and New South Wales, but research has proved targeting smaller plants during the winter fallow or winter crop phase is key to an…
Jun 16, 2018
Small is good for Agriculture
Read how one start-up is developing robots that could change the face of agriculture.Picture a farm, chequerboard fields, green shoots turning to gold, every inch lush with healthy crops – and not a tractor in sight. Not a bucolic…
Jun 16, 2018
Anthony Violi, aka AV Weather dispels a few weather myths
By Anthony VioliI just thought I would touch base, there is a massive amount of misinformation out there at the moment on social media. We all know there are also people who have no clue what they are talking about. All of this talk…
Jun 15, 2018
Video - Watch the latest Farm Tender "What's Hot" report
Watch here the latest Farm Tender "What's Hot" report. https://youtu.be/hVXLDBIpOScSee the link here to our new "Prime" Vehicle Brokering service, save between $2-$10k on a new $60k ute https://www.farmtender.com.au/primeagnews
Jun 15, 2018
Australian Ag Tech could become a bigger industry than Ag - By Sarah Nolet
Two years ago I wrote about Australia’s opportunity to become a global leader in agtech. I’ll admit that at the time I was skeptical, and the piece was a bit more aspirational than confident.That same month, I went to the Australian…
Jun 15, 2018
Video - Casey Collins with the 55 Farms US update
Watch Casey Collins and the latest 55 Farms video updatehttps://www.facebook.com/55farms/videos/380167275723356/Like our Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/55farms/www.55farms.com
Jun 15, 2018
NSW Government announce further drought funding for struggling Farmers
The NSW Government is almost doubling the funding that drought-affected farmers will be able to receive.In next Tuesday's state budget almost $600 million will be allocated in a package covering low interest loans, mental health support…
Jun 15, 2018
Wool Market back up with a 10 cent gain
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolA fall in the Australian Dollar to under 76 US cents and a lower national offering of 28,029 bales assisted the wool market to return to positive territory this week, with the Eastern Market Indicator increasing…
Jun 14, 2018
Animals Australia launches court action against Sheep Live Exports
Animals Australia will today appear in the first hearing of an unprecedented application in the Federal Court of Australia to challenge the legality of a live sheep export permit.The hearing is at 2:15pm this afternoon (14 June 2018)…
Jun 14, 2018
Aussie startup BlockGrain partners with US Brewer to track Beer
An important Australian agriculture technology startup known as BlockGrain will be partnering with West Virginia’s largest and oldest brewery, Mountain State Brewing Company, so as to set up a pilot project to track where beer comes…
Jun 14, 2018
AWH - Wool moving quicker than ever through the system
For the first nine months of the financial year AWH receipts of wool nationally into our warehouses are consistent with the same period last year.However, we do see some state by state variations with Queensland up 2.6%, New South…
Jun 14, 2018
US innovator invests in aftermarket driverless Tractor kit
Stine Seed Farm has invested $5 million in Smart Ag Inc., an Iowa technology firm that has developed a full stack software platform and aftermarket kit for driverless tractors.The Stine Seed investment In Smart Ag’s Series Seed Round…
Jun 14, 2018
New Tractor sales strong despite dry
Agricultural Tractor Sales in May recorded another solid month, maintaining the march towards another record year.Overall Tractor Sales now sit 8% ahead on a year to date basis and we are now well past the 12,000 tractor sales mark…
Jun 14, 2018
Some drought feeding tips - By Alastair Rayner - Rayner Ag
When I was commencing my agricultural degree, one of the subjects we were required to study was agricultural paradox. The best description I have seen of a paradox involves contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously…
Jun 14, 2018
Faster turnaround times coming for sheep DNA testing
Turnaround times for sheep DNA test processing continue to improve following upgrades to Neogen Australasia’s processing facility at the University of Queensland, Gatton.Over the last six months there has been a significant reduction…
Jun 14, 2018
Pork prices "worst in living memory" - Aussies urged to eat more Aussie Pork
Pig farmers across Australia say they are at crisis point as pork prices plummet to the ‘worst in living memory’ due to oversupply and lower consumption rates.It has gotten so bad for the ‘down under’ farmers that most say they are…
Jun 13, 2018
Teys Australia announce $30 million expansion at its Naracoorte plant
Australia’s second largest beef processor, Teys Australia, will inject over $30 million into new infrastructure at its Naracoorte plant and offer around 100 new jobs, in a massive boost to the region’s economy.Later this month the…
Jun 13, 2018
This week's 55 Farms Newsletter - Much needed moisture in areas of the US
Throughout the U.S. we are starting to see moisture in some much-needed areas and hay production slowly starting to pick up. Dairies in drought-stricken states continue to shop for quality hay. Last week we saw dairies buy at 165/ton…
