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Look beyond the dollars and cents on National Ag Day

Look beyond the dollars and cents on National Ag Day

NFF President Fiona Simson says Australia's farmers are motivated to leave behind stronger communities, healthier environments and a more sustained world.

French Fergies get some special effects

French Fergies get some special effects

Massey Ferguson upgrade the Beauvais built tractors to S series

Charity food service funding maintained

Charity food service funding maintained

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has intervened to boost the government's food relief budget.

Work needed to cut supply chain costs

Work needed to cut supply chain costs

In spite of investment in recent years, more work is needed in order to keep Australia's grain transport costs down.

French Fergies get some special effects

French Fergies get some special effects

Massey Ferguson upgrade the Beauvais built tractors to S series

New benchmarks set this ram sale season

New benchmarks set this ram sale season

The WA ram selling season has reached a whole new level this year.

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Mecardo looks at how the uncertainty surrounding live sheep exports has negatively impacted price spreads across a variety of West and east coast lamb and sheep markets.

Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Its looking like the free-trade deal won't be ratified until after the next election.

Breakthrough for Sky Muster

Breakthrough for Sky Muster

NBN Co have launched Sky Muster Plus

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Mecardo looks at how the uncertainty surrounding live sheep exports has negatively impacted price spreads across a variety of West and east coast lamb and sheep markets.

EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU wants to send even more cheap pork our way.

Work needed to cut supply chain costs

Work needed to cut supply chain costs

In spite of investment in recent years, more work is needed in order to keep Australia's grain transport costs down.

Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Its looking like the free-trade deal won't be ratified until after the next election.

Charity food service funding maintained

Charity food service funding maintained

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has intervened to boost the government's food relief budget.

Breakthrough for Sky Muster

Breakthrough for Sky Muster

NBN Co have launched Sky Muster Plus

EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU wants to send even more cheap pork our way.

Ag education summit looks to the future

Ag education summit looks to the future

AgKowledge the Future Summit to launch at Brisbane GFIA in Focus 2018

Ag education summit looks to the future

WoolPoll vote goes to preference count

Expanding into the Central West

Woman in court over strawberry needles

Meet The Team

Andrew Marshall - Agribusiness

Agribusiness with Andrew Marshall

Sheep and Wool with Kristen Frost

Sheep and Wool with Kristen Frost

Gregor Heard - Grains and Sugar

Grains and Sugar with Gregor Heard

Shan Goodwin - Beef

Beef with Shan Goodwin

Rural Affairs with Mike Foley

Rural Affairs with Mike Foley

Machinery and Ag Technology with Sharon O'Keeffe

Machinery and Ag Tech with Sharon O'Keeffe

Agribusiness

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Former wool chief's colourful reign

Former wool chief's colourful reign

We take a look back at some of the moments that have made news during Wal Merriman's time as AWI chairman.

Lion’s Be True Farmer Drought Fund raises $1 million

Lion’s Be True Farmer Drought Fund raises $1 million

The fund was launched in October to raise money for Lion dairy farmers impacted by drought in NSW, South East Queensland and Northern Victoria

Bank aims to take on the big four

Bank aims to take on the big four

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is aiming to claim further market share from the big four banks.

Agribusiness buzz in brief

Agribusiness buzz in brief

A quick look at what's been happening and what some of the players in the agribusiness world have been up to

Politics

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Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Indonesian free-trade deal delayed

Its looking like the free-trade deal won't be ratified until after the next election.

Charity food service funding maintained

Charity food service funding maintained

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has intervened to boost the government's food relief budget.

Drought funds must flow beyond the farm gate

Drought funds must flow beyond the farm gate

Community groups say generous drought funding should be shared into rural businesses and the community.

Littleproud launches probe into live-ex cover-up claims

Littleproud launches probe into live-ex cover-up claims

Ag Minister launches investigation of allegations that Department officers suppressed junior staffers' concerns

Don the green for National Ag Day

Don the green for National Ag Day

Wear green this National Ag Day – Wednesday, November 21.

Beef

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EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU claims de facto pork quotas

EU wants to send even more cheap pork our way.

Cost creep to push beef processing offshore

Cost creep to push beef processing offshore

Major economic analysis shows Australia's processing costs per head more than twice Brazil's.

Three young leaders up for major agribusiness award

Three young leaders up for major agribusiness award

2019 Zanda McDonald Award finalists named.

Beef’s double shot of tariff cuts

Beef’s double shot of tariff cuts

October beef exports rebound.

Meat tax the new social media battlefront

Meat tax the new social media battlefront

UK university researchers call for meat tax to ease healthcare costs.

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Staying ahead of the game

Staying ahead of the game

Advertiser content: Research shows Australian farmers are the quickest to take up innovation and new technologies to drive productivity gains.

Nominations put the spotlight on agriculture and rural communities

Nominations put the spotlight on agriculture and rural communities

Advertiser content: The Syngenta Growth Awards supports the challenges of producing more with less, protecting the viability of farmland and promoting prosperous rural communities.

The Seedcare Institute™ Wagga Wagga official opening

The Seedcare Institute™ Wagga Wagga official opening

Advertiser content: This October Syngenta opened a world-class laboratory, The Seedcare Institute™, at Wagga Wagga to help farmers make the most of yield-improving technology.

Communicating the benefits of precision key for consultants

Communicating the benefits of precision key for consultants

Advertiser content: Optimise farm productivity and sustainability with the latest in precision agriculture technologies that are powerfully accurate, and refreshingly simple to use.

ALFA Lotfeeding journal: Young leaders up for ALFA awards

ALFA Lotfeeding journal: Young leaders up for ALFA awards

Meet the 2018 Young Lot Feeder of the Year Award finalists.

Sheep

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New benchmarks set this ram sale season

New benchmarks set this ram sale season

The WA ram selling season has reached a whole new level this year.

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Prices turnaround in WA as live trade resumes

Mecardo looks at how the uncertainty surrounding live sheep exports has negatively impacted price spreads across a variety of West and east coast lamb and sheep markets.

Lamb barely chops into the weekly pay cheque

Lamb barely chops into the weekly pay cheque

Mecardo has crunched the numbers and found some interesting trends on lamb prices in relation to the average weekly wage.

Levy payers up votes on wool levy

Levy payers up votes on wool levy

More levy payers made valid WoolPoll votes in 2018.

Sustainable status for Walcha wool producers

Sustainable status for Walcha wool producers

Walcha woolgrowers committed to a sustainable way of farming helping boost the environmental credentials of wool.

Wool Extra brought to you by AWI

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Smart ear tags detect disease

Smart ear tags detect disease

Advertiser content: A CQ University Rockhampton - basedresearcher will assess the ability of smart ear tags, developed by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), to enable farmers to help sheep farmers detect disease earlier.

The pinnacle prize for Aussie wool

The pinnacle prize for Aussie wool

Advertiser content: In 1936, Australian woolgrowers voted for a levy to be imposed on each bale of wool they produced to promote their premium product across the world.

Tools to help producers with best practise flystrike management plans

Tools to help producers with best practise flystrike management plans

Advertiser content: flyboss.com.au is an AWI-funded resource available for all sheep and wool producers. One of the most effective resources on the website is the Flystrike Decision Support Tool.

Samples needed for new flystrike study

Samples needed for new flystrike study

Advertiser content: The development of resistance of the Australian blowfly to flystrike prevention chemicals is an ongoing risk. The last nation-wide survey conducted by the NSW DPI in 2011 found a low-level resistance to the flystrike chemical cyromazine common across Australia, whilst eight of these cyromazine resistant populations were also resistant to dicyclanil.

Nanotechnology to combat flystrike

Nanotechnology to combat flystrike

Advertiser content: Flystrike and lice are amongst the most costly diseases affecting the sheep and wool industry. A 2015 MLA Report estimated costs of over $173 million and $81 million respectively per year to the Australian sheep and wool industries, in terms of animal health and welfare and production losses

Grains

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Work needed to cut supply chain costs

Work needed to cut supply chain costs

In spite of investment in recent years, more work is needed in order to keep Australia's grain transport costs down.

Grain peak body sells digital ag platform

Grain peak body sells digital ag platform

GrainGrowers divests precision ag software ProductionWise

Where the money is going: Drought charities respond

Where the money is going: Drought charities respond

Drought charities outline how they are spending their funds.

Drought charity leader welcomes probe

Drought charity leader welcomes probe

Although there is controversy over the allocation of drought charity funds, the leader of one charity welcomes the ACNC investigation.

Markets watch for trade war lead

Markets watch for trade war lead

Agricultural markets are still trying to make sense of the rhetoric coming out of Beijing and the White House regarding the trade war.

Machinery

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Breakthrough for Sky Muster

Breakthrough for Sky Muster

NBN Co have launched Sky Muster Plus

French Fergies get some special effects

French Fergies get some special effects

Massey Ferguson upgrade the Beauvais built tractors to S series

Ag education summit looks to the future

Ag education summit looks to the future

AgKowledge the Future Summit to launch at Brisbane GFIA in Focus 2018

Expanding into the Central West

Expanding into the Central West

O'Connors purchase four Case IH dealerships

Grain peak body sells digital ag platform

Grain peak body sells digital ag platform

GrainGrowers divests precision ag software ProductionWise

Multimedia

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Blame it on the rain, says naked farmer

Blame it on the rain, says naked farmer

Cootamundra sheep farmer strips down to dance after rain brings new promise.

How the Melbourne Cup panned out: on the track

How the Melbourne Cup panned out: on the track

Global equine entity wins the Cup - at last.

25 faces you might know at the Melbourne Cup

25 faces you might know at the Melbourne Cup

The first Tuesday in November is all about horse-racing. Right?

How Melbourne Cup 2018 panned out: off the track

How Melbourne Cup 2018 panned out: off the track

It rained. It cleared. Then it rained again

Agribusiness leadership awards dinner

Agribusiness leadership awards dinner

See who was among the big gathering to attend the Rabobank leadership awards dinner.

Property

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Drought bites earnings, but can’t stop farmland demand

Drought bites earnings, but can’t stop farmland demand

The Australian Farmland Index shows permanent horticultural land rewards are rising as the big dry looks set to get drier

Federation fighter’s Riverina stronghold

Federation fighter’s Riverina stronghold

One of the landmark properties of the Southern Riverina is back in play for the second time in a decade, following the listing for sale of historic “Nangunia” at Berrigan.

Queensland’s Dawson River property sold at auction

Queensland’s Dawson River property sold at auction

The Dawson River irrigation property Harcourt has sold at auction for $10.3 million.

McBrides emerge as mystery Telopea buyers

McBrides emerge as mystery Telopea buyers

AJ & PA McBride have been revealed as the mystery buyers of Hassad Australia's 47,600ha property at Telopea Downs in Victoria's west.

Five reasons financial freedom is vital for farmers

Five reasons financial freedom is vital for farmers

Financial adviser Ben Law from The Financial Bloke is talking all things finance for farmers and graziers.

Opinion

Look beyond the dollars and cents on National Ag Day

Look beyond the dollars and cents on National Ag Day

NFF President Fiona Simson says Australia's farmers are motivated to leave behind stronger communities, healthier environments and a more sustained world.

Why should we remember the Great War?

Why should we remember the Great War?

I do think the war was a tragedy, even aside from the suffering and death it imposed.

Live export review findings ’extraordinary’

Live export review findings ’extraordinary’

Opinion: Joel Fitzgibbon, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry says the Moss Review findings revealed 'abject policy failure'.