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Fake meat the hot talk of the town

Fake meat the hot talk of the town

Beef needs to answer the big questions fake meat is asking.

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA farmers say national changes to 2,4-D application rules are unwarranted and that they are being penalised for east coast drift incidents.

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

US Private equity to sell Riverina agribusiness BFB to Canadian pension fund

Built with steel in its DNA

Built with steel in its DNA

New Mahindra tractors available to dealers

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA farmers say national changes to 2,4-D application rules are unwarranted and that they are being penalised for east coast drift incidents.

Hay oat seed a scarce commodity

Hay oat seed a scarce commodity

Hay producers are frantically hunting for oat seed for next year, leading to a massive spike in seed prices.

Santa gets an Aussie farm Christmas

Santa gets an Aussie farm Christmas

See Aldi's Christmas campaign that gets Santa into the yards, and building fences.

Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Chef Curtis Stone films TV series on Australian beef.

Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

A global insurance expert says the sector can play a valuable role in lessening reliance on government drought assistance.

Santa gets an Aussie farm Christmas

Santa gets an Aussie farm Christmas

See Aldi's Christmas campaign that gets Santa into the yards, and building fences.

Challenging the ‘norm’

Challenging the ‘norm’

Merino ewes to be joined back to meat maternal or terminal sires is at the its lowest number in seven years.

Built with steel in its DNA

Built with steel in its DNA

New Mahindra tractors available to dealers

Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Chef Curtis Stone films TV series on Australian beef.

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

US Private equity to sell Riverina agribusiness BFB to Canadian pension fund

Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

A global insurance expert says the sector can play a valuable role in lessening reliance on government drought assistance.

Challenging the ‘norm’

Challenging the ‘norm’

Merino ewes to be joined back to meat maternal or terminal sires is at the its lowest number in seven years.

Farmers launch road safety campaign

Farmers launch road safety campaign

Common Roads, Common Sense campaign says look out, slow down, take care during harvest time.

Farmers launch road safety campaign

Further drift incidents cause concern

Ruralco to start farming data

New crop of beef interns

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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Elders share rollercoaster

Elders share rollercoaster

Ruralco and Elders have this week released their financial results.

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.

Politics

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Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

Foreign investor rules questioned in Riverina agribusiness sale

US Private equity to sell Riverina agribusiness BFB to Canadian pension fund

Farmers launch road safety campaign

Farmers launch road safety campaign

Common Roads, Common Sense campaign says look out, slow down, take care during harvest time.

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.

Tough choices loom on Asia-Pacific trade

Tough choices loom on Asia-Pacific trade

As the Asian summit season kicks off, Australia mulls its path between China-US stand off.

Charity food service funding maintained

Charity food service funding maintained

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

Beef

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Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Curtis Stone sings Aussie beef’s praises

Chef Curtis Stone films TV series on Australian beef.

New crop of beef interns

New crop of beef interns

Angus breed leads way with bringing next generation of genetics researchers on.

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.

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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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Challenging the ‘norm’

Challenging the ‘norm’

Merino ewes to be joined back to meat maternal or terminal sires is at the its lowest number in seven years.

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.

Wool Extra brought to you by AWI

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Neeman’s and Woolmark launch India’s first mens’ shoe made from Merino wool

Neeman’s and Woolmark launch India’s first mens’ shoe made from Merino wool

Advertiser content: Neeman’s is India’s first footwear brand to use the natural, renewable and biodegradable fibre in its shoes.

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.

Grains

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Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

Insurance can cut reliance on drought support

A global insurance expert says the sector can play a valuable role in lessening reliance on government drought assistance.

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA frustration at herbicide label changes

WA farmers say national changes to 2,4-D application rules are unwarranted and that they are being penalised for east coast drift incidents.

Hay oat seed a scarce commodity

Hay oat seed a scarce commodity

Hay producers are frantically hunting for oat seed for next year, leading to a massive spike in seed prices.

Further drift incidents cause concern

Further drift incidents cause concern

Just weeks after the APVMA changed its regulations regarding the use of 2,4-D there have been more reports of spray drift damage.

Radar proponents strike gold

Radar proponents strike gold

Two and a half years after funding was first announced, Rainbow is revealed as the new home of the Wimmera-Mallee radar.

Machinery

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Built with steel in its DNA

Built with steel in its DNA

New Mahindra tractors available to dealers

Ruralco to start farming data

Ruralco to start farming data

Ruralco invest in agtech company DataFarming

Looking at harvest costs a different way

Looking at harvest costs a different way

Claas Harvest Centre look at the true cost of a Claas Lexion harvester

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

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'.