Pictues Sent To eFarming At Wallhollow On The Tableands Highway NT

Story Added Tue, 6^th of Jan 2009

This photo was taken just by the entrance to Wallhollow on the Tablelands Highway.

Here is the road train that drives towards Creswell Creek yesterday - as you can see in one of the ...

More Information About The New Investment Allowance

Story Added Tue, 6^th of Jan 2009

On 12 December 2008, the Government announced an initiative to boost economic activity, in the form of an investment allowance. The investment allowance is an additional 10 percent tax deduction for ...

Massive Interest Rate Cut for QRAA loans

Story Added Tue, 6^th of Jan 2009

Primary producers and commercial fishers in rural and regional Queensland are the big winners in the massive interest rate cuts to QRAA loans, Minister for Primary Industries and Fisheries Tim ...

Harvest Report For WA

Story Added Mon, 5^th of Jan 2009

Receivals by zone to date are as follows (all listed as approximate tonnes); Geraldton 2.56 million Kwinana West: 2.4 million Kwinana East 2.9 million Metro Grain Centre 100,000 Albany 1.95 ...

Direct Command™ For SARITOR Application

Story Added Sun, 4^th of Jan 2009

South Australian boomspray manufacturer HARDI Australia has launched its most ambitious product to Australian farmers, raising the bar on application technology.

Initially, the new US-manufactured ...

ABARE Reports On US Farm Bill

Story Added Sun, 4^th of Jan 2009

ABARE executive director Phillip Glyde has described the new US Farm Bill as an opportunity lost to bring meaningful and beneficial reform to US agricultural policies.

Mr Glyde, who analysed a ...

MLA Ramps Up Korean Beef Drive

Story Added Fri, 2^nd of Jan 2009

Meat and Livestock Australia is ramping up its marketing efforts in Korea following the recent large-scale return of US beef to that market.

Two key campaigns are set to be launched in the coming ...

Southern Riverina Residents Urged To Look Out For Locust Hatchings

Story Added Wed, 31^st of Dec 2008

Local residents and owners of small acreage in towns throughout the southern Riverina area are encouraged to be vigilant and report locusts to help control efforts in NSW.

NSW Plague Locust ...

More Lambs Good Prices

Story Added Wed, 31^st of Dec 2008

For the last 3 weeks NSW and Vic lamb yarding numbers have been higher than the corresponding numbers for 07/06, reported by MLA’s NLRS. Young lamb numbers have increased by 5% in NSW ...

World-Wide Focus On Reverse Genetics Sorghum Trial

Story Added Tue, 30^th of Dec 2008

The quest for commercially productive grain sorghum traits are literally “in the bag” for sorghum researchers who have initiated the world’s biggest sorghum reverse genetics ...

Harvest Report For WA

Story Added Mon, 29^th of Dec 2008

Receivals by zone to date are as follows (all listed as approximate tonnes); Geraldton 2.51 million Kwinana West: 2.3 million Kwinana East 2.71 million Metro Grain Centre 92,000 Albany 1.53 ...

Biochar A Fresh Angle On Climate Change

Story Added Sun, 28^th of Dec 2008

Former inhabitants of the Amazon Basin enriched their fields with charred organic materials – biochar – and transformed one of the earth's most infertile soils into one of the most ...

New Investment Allowance Announced

Story Added Wed, 24^th of Dec 2008

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has announced a 10 per cent temporary investment allowance - in the form of an additional tax deduction - which will encourage important capital investment by Australian ...

Locusts Still A Threat In NSW

Story Added Wed, 24^th of Dec 2008

Landholders in the Molong Rural Lands Protection Board (RLPB) are being urged to increase their surveillance for plague locusts on suspicion they are present over a larger area than has been ...

WA GOVERNMENT APPROVES SMALL SCALE COMMERCIAL GM CANOLA TRIALS

Story Added Tue, 23^rd of Dec 2008

The State Government today announced its decision to allow approval of limited commercial-size trials for genetically modified canola to go ahead in Western Australia. Agriculture and Food ...