Do you know an Australian biosecurity champion? If someone you know goes the extra mile to protect their property from diseases, pests and weeds, nominate them before Friday 6 December 2019 for the 2020 Farm Biosecurity Producer of the Year Award. (more…)
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CISS welcomes the growing call for strategic feral pig management across Australia
With the growing risk of African Swine Fever entering Australia and decimating our $5 billion a year pork industry, the National Farmers’ Federation called on governments to act immediately to control Australia’s 24 million-strong feral pig population. If left uncontrolled and uncontained, feral pigs could be a major vector of this exotic disease, not currently…
FENCING 2020: Vision for the Future conference
Get together with other fencing professionals for FENCiT’s first national conference. (more…)
Sentinel IG sorghum offers Allora growers weed control, highest yield
Allora farmers David and Tanya Peters planted new imidazolinone-tolerant grain sorghum for the first time last summer, and not only did it offer them the option of in-crop weed control, it was their highest yielding sorghum variety. (more…)
Bred Well Fed Well extends to northern beef producers
The highly successful Bred Well Fed Well workshops will be piloted in the northern beef industry in April 2019, following 12 months of workshops being successfully delivered to southern beef producers. (more…)
Growers of Pacific Seeds varieties win all RASQ sorghum awards
Growers of Pacific Seeds varieties have won all of the sorghum awards at 2019’s Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland (RASQ) Queensland Country Life Grains Outlook crop competition. (more…)