Agriculture coverage
Happy Birthday!
SHEPHERD Grain celebrates its fifth birthday today with the announcement of a major expansion to its Burrington Road container packing and seed processing plant. With the 2025 harvest rapidly approaching, and expected to be well above average, the plant upgrades are timely – and tie in perfectly with today’s birthday bash. Company director John Shepherd [...]
Harvest Time
NSW Farmers’ is urging motorists to take care around agricultural vehicles as New South Wales and Queensland prepares for this year’s grain and hay harvest. Large farm machinery will be a common sight on country roads over the coming months, and NSW Farmers’ grains committee chair, Justin Everitt, said it is vital road-users exercise caution [...]
Weed Wise
AS temperatures begin to rise, residents are reminded to be vigilant and on the look-out for parthenium weed. Despite it being five years since the drought broke, Narrabri Shire biosecurity co-ordinator Clare Felton-Taylor said the risk is still very much alive. “Parthenium seed longevity is up to 10 years, so the risk of seeds germinating [...]
Agriculture
LANDCARE Australia and the National Farmers’ Federation have partnered to launch Agriculture and Landcare Week on the Gold Coast, coinciding with the 2025 National Landcare Conference and the NFF’s AgXchange Australia. Both events will be held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre this week. Agriculture and Landcare Week on the Gold Coast will [...]
Agriculture
FARMERS have been left to cope with dangerous holes in mobile coverage as the federal government delivers a lacklustre response to a major telecommunications review. On Thursday the federal government finally issued a response to the 2024 Regional Telecommunications Review, promising little to improve the rural connectivity divide after spending nine months reviewing the report. [...]
Biosecurity
NSW Farmers is urging parents and carers who’ve purchased imported nappies – including Little One’s Nappy Pants – to check for khapra beetles after the federal government confirmed the beetle larvae was found in nappies sold at Woolworths in New South Wales this month. NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin said the incident had come as [...]
Agriculture
A new online tool that will save farmers thousands of dollars and months of work as they negotiate often complex planning laws when applying for development approvals to build key on-farm infrastructure has been launched by the state government. The platform – myFarmPlanner – aims to strengthen the state’s $20 billion agriculture sector and to [...]
Agriculture
CROPLIFE Australia, the national peak industry organisation for the plant science sector, is warning continued delays in assessment times at the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority may cause a long-term productivity drought for the nation’s farming sector. The APVMA has offices in Armidale and Canberra. Delayed access to new agricultural innovation and technologies for [...]
Agriculture
GWYDIR Cotton Growers’ Association held its annual charity awards dinner – an evening of recognition, celebration, and community spirit – at Moree Town and Country Club on Thursday night. The night of connection, good food and well-deserved acknowledgements, shone a light on local contributions across the north-west while raising funds for the Gwydir CGA medical [...]
Rural Crime
RESIDENTS and members of farming communities from across the New England and north-west are invited to a special event in Tamworth focused on rural crime in the district. University of New England will this week bring together three of Australia’s leading rural criminology experts to examine this often-overlooked issue. The free event, on Thursday, September [...]
