Nov 13, 2017
Elders target growth with 20% Clear Grain purchase
Well-known agribusiness, Elders, has announced an overhaul of the Company’s grain marketing business to provide a more holistic and independent transaction offering to clients, complementing a 20 percent acquisition of Clear Grain…
Nov 13, 2017
Elders announces $116 million net profit
* Statutory net profit after tax of $116.0m, up $64.4m from the pcp * Underlying profit after tax of $57.7m, up $16.5m from the pcp * Underlying EBIT of $70.4m, up $14.3m from the pcp * Underlying return on capital of 26.8% …
Nov 12, 2017
Getting Aussies to eat more Veggies - There’s an app for that
Using a gamified approach, CSIRO’s new VegEze app aims to motivate Australians to add extra vegetables to their daily diets and form long-term, healthier habits through a 21-day 'Do 3 at Dinner' challenge.CSIRO nutritionists will…
Nov 12, 2017
Dealing with the financial and emotional impact of late season frosts
The full extent of damage to crops caused by the most recent frost events in the southern cropping region is currently being determined by growers and their advisers.At this late stage of the season it is important that growers continue…
Nov 12, 2017
Western Star brand turns it hand to cream
At Cobden – the home of Australia’s favourite butter, Western Star – our team of experts have crafted Western Star’s first thickened cream, all in time for Christmas baking and festivities.It tops off a big year for Western Star,…
Nov 12, 2017
Cotton to surpass Rice in Southern NSW
Cotton continues to be the summer crop of choice in Southern NSW, as forecasts suggest that cotton will surpass rice as the largest irrigated crop in the area this season.CSD Extension and Development Agronomist for Southern NSW,…
Nov 10, 2017
Wool Market kicks again
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolThe wool market continued its impressive run for the fourth consecutive week, as values breached levels not seen for quite some time.The Eastern Market Indicator increased by 58 cents clean for the week…
Nov 10, 2017
WASDE & Indian Barriers
The US Department of Agriculture released their World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates overnight. Here we take a look at the impact on wheat, and report on new import barriers being erected in India.The WASDE report shows…
Nov 08, 2017
The Farming Investment Dilemma
It is always a delicate balance between making investment choices, then how to fund the investment.For farmers, there are 6 major motivators for funding requirements: 1) Property acquisition 2) Livestock acquisition 3) Infrastructure…
Nov 08, 2017
Creative agronomists join the stampede and head to Calgary!
Accompanying the recent launch of the new post-emergent cereal selective herbicide, TALINOR®, a number of agronomists will be heading off to Calgary, Canada next year after they shot some very creative videos on why TALINOR is their…
Nov 08, 2017
Ask. Are they are Australian Pork Ribs?
Pork ribs are a unique dining experience that requires getting down and dirty, but are you getting rib-bed off?While all fresh pork is Australian, consumers are now being sold ultra-heat treated ribs from the other side of the world,…
Nov 08, 2017
Barossa winemakers find strength in numbers
A few years into the new millennium, six young wine producers in the Barossa Valley, passionate about creating distinctive small batch wines, banded together at trade and wine-tasting events with a common goal to build their own businesses…
Nov 05, 2017
The big drop – Rabobank winter crop forecast
Sustained dry weather conditions have significantly cut Australian winter crop production, with the upcoming grain harvest now expected to come in 41 per cent below 2016/17, and well below the five-year average, according to Rabobank’s…
Nov 05, 2017
GRDC invests in grains lab at Condobolin
A major grain research infrastructure project at Condobolin in New South Wales will allow for irrigated and rain-fed research into grains agronomy, physiology and pre-breeding to be conducted in the state’s Central West.The establishment…
Nov 03, 2017
Worried about Russia's march on grain markets? It could be worse
Moscow - Russian grain is flowing around the world in a way not seen since the last years of the Tsarist empire a century ago but the country’s export expansion looks set to hit a wall because of a lack of infrastructure.While Russia…
Nov 03, 2017
Lambpro sell 973 Rams for $1.7m
Reports in that Tom Bull's Lambpro operation, Holbrook, NSW sold 973 rams of the 974 catalogued over two days. The average for the sale was $1780 and the sale grossed $1,731,940http://lambpro.com.au/https://twitter.com/LambproHolbrookhttps://www.facebook.com/LambproHolbrook/
Nov 03, 2017
Hillden Poll Dorset's to $5250 twice
Hillden Poll Dorset Stud, Bannister, NSW held their on-property Ram Sale on FridayThey entered 10 stud Rams and sold all 10 to a top of $5250 twice. The average for the studs was $2875It was a total clearance of the 138 flock Rams…
Nov 03, 2017
EMI up 45c/kg clean for the week - Wool Report
By Mark Dyson - Quality WoolOn the back of a steady Australian dollar trading at mid-76 US cents and a larger offering of just over 47,000 bales, the Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) surged an impressive 45 cents clean for the week…
Nov 02, 2017
Aussie Grain Producers tour the Mid West
Australian farmers are some of the best in the world at broadening their horizons in the pursuit of continued improvement. It was this willingness to learn and explore new ways of operating that brought 41 leading primary producers…
Nov 02, 2017
Failed Crop Hay varies in quality
Farmers who made hay from this season’s failed crops are finding variations in feed quality, as tests reveal the value of their fodder, according to NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI).NSW DPI Feed Quality Service (FQS) analytical…
