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Agriculture
A dozen women have cemented their place as agricultural leaders after graduating from the Diversity in Agriculture Leadership Program, including Malinda Guest from Narrabri and Gorgia Campbell from Gunnedah. The program is run by the National Farmers’ Federation and supported by agricultural organisations and corporate partners who have committed to increasing diversity in their workplaces. [...]
Agriculture
HAROLD Kenway and Ted Clark saw the need. It was early 1960, and the two men put in motion a plan to establish an International Harvester franchise in Moree to service the north and north-west. It was a huge gamble, given much of the district’s wheat crops the previous year had been flattened by devastating [...]
Agriculture
THE roll-out of free state-of-the-art water monitoring devices for up to 2500 water-users has kicked into high gear after the NSW Government awarded businesses Goanna Ag and Kallipr the tender to supply and install the equipment across inland regions of the state. It’s the next phase of the Australian Government’s $10.5 million Telemetry Uplift Program, [...]
Harvest Time
AUSTRALIA is forecast to harvest a larger winter grain crop this year, with Rabobank estimating total volumes to reach 62.8 million tonnes in its just-released annual 2025-2026 Australian winter crop forecast. RaboResearch division forecasts total winter grain and oilseeds production to come in approximately 3.8 million tonnes above last season, an increase of 6.4 per [...]
Health and Wellbeing
AROUND Broken Hill, Brendan Cullen is known as the manager of Kars Station, where he runs anywhere between 7000 and 9000 ewes across 60,000 hectares of rangeland country. Further afield, he’s the man who swam the English Channel – twice. Swimming, whether it’s the ocean water between England and France or in the nearby Menindee [...]
Agriculture
APPLICATIONS have opened for the 2026 intake for the Australia Future Cotton Leaders Program, the cotton industry’s premier leadership development initiative. Participants in 2024 included Moree’s Kate Lumber, Sarah Vivers from Weemelah, Rowena’s Prue Byrnes, Georgie Flick, Grace Griffiths and Greg Pearce from Goondiwindi, Jacob Booby, Jack O’Neill and Sam Carberry from Narrabri and George [...]
Regional History
THE 80th anniversary of the game-changing Gabo wheat variety will be celebrated on Wednesday in Gunnedah. The celebration, Seeds of Legacy, will be hosted by Gunnedah Shire Council and The University of Sydney’s Institute of Agriculture. The October 22 event will include the launch of a new book, The Story of Gabo, written by Dr [...]
Agriculture
QUEENSLAND farmer Hamish McIntyre has been elected president of the National Farmers’ Federation. Elected by NFF members as the organisation’s 15th president, Mr McIntyre takes the reins from outgoing president and Victorian farmer David ‘DJ’ Jochinke. Mr McIntyre runs a family-owned, irrigated and dryland farming, cattle breeding, beef feedlot and broiler chicken meat business in [...]
Agriculture
AUSTRALIAN farmers have claimed a monumental win, with the Federal Government set to revise its proposed ‘Super Tax’ following strong and united advocacy from the National Farmers’ Federation and its members. NFF President David Jochinke said the Government’s decision to revisit the tax was the right one. The tax will now only apply to realised [...]
Bush Fire Season
RED tape preventing the use of farm firefighting vehicles has been reduced ahead of the New South Wales bushfire season. The NSW Government on Tuesday launched a conditional registration scheme to enable typically unregistered firefighting vehicles to be used legally and under the protection of insurance. The vehicles are typically small trucks, utes or trailers [...]
