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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 [...]
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. [...]
