Rural Business November 2024

Rural Business

Winning against ryegrass resistance

Dec. 18, 2024 | 4 min read

Dr Sam Kleemann says the uptick in glyphosate and paraquat resistance in annual ryegrass demands urgent attention in broadacre cropping systems.

Rural Business

Going off-grid? Go Gallagher

Dec. 18, 2024 | 4 min read

Everyone’s talking about going off-grid. And now Gallagher is bringing it to a paddock near you. Not only to a paddock near you, but to paddocks almost as far away as you would like, with the introduction of its extended range of Lithium Solar Fence Energisers.

Commentary

Haifa makes a global statement on industry’s future

Dec. 16, 2024 | 5 min read

Motti Levin isn’t pulling any punches about the future of farming. Here for this month’s 2024 Almonds Australia conference, the head of Israel’s Haifa Group told Rural Business things have to change if the whole industry is going to go anywhere near what the world is expecting in the next 50 years.

Movers & Shakers

Freshcare board loses two directors

Dec. 12, 2024 | 2 min read

Freshcare has thanked and acknowledged two retiring long-serving board members in Gail Woods and Graham McAlpine.

Market insight

Let Merlin cast a spell on your RMS

Dec. 11, 2024 | 4 min read

If you want the latest technology in your business – without the cost of having an IT department to make sure it works – you will be spellbound by Merlin Software.

Rural Business

Key to success of glyphosate tolerant canola

Dec. 10, 2024 | 3 min read

The expertise of Wayne and Brodie Williams in canola hybrid seed production has been critical to maximising the availability of DG Buller G for distribution.

Movers & Shakers

New CEO for peak crop body

Dec. 9, 2024 | 2 min read

Australian Crop Breeders, the peak body representing Australia’s field crop breeders, has announced the appointment of Dr Narelle Moore as its inaugural CEO.

Management

Warning signs of a toxic culture and what to do about it

Dec. 6, 2024 | 3 min read

Toxic culture is the biggest risk facing every organisation today. Yet many senior leaders, despite there being a story about culture every week in the media, are refusing to take it seriously.

Rural Business

Global action on antimicrobial resistance

Dec. 5, 2024 | 2 min read

As the peak body representing Australia's animal health industry, Animal Medicines Australia welcomes and endorses the United Nations Political Declaration on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Movers & Shakers

New manager for CCC

Dec. 4, 2024 | 2 min read

Colin Campbell (Chemicals) has appointed Andrew Wardle as the new area manager for southern South Australia and Victoria

Rural Business

Conan - a weed control barbarian

Dec. 4, 2024 | 4 min read

In an ongoing battle with some hard-to-kill weeds, business partners Robert Eveleigh and Gary Coulton started investigating their options for fallow weed detection and spot spraying on their properties in the Bellata area of northern NSW.

Agsafe

ChemClear collection in Victoria

Dec. 3, 2024 | 2 min read

Agsafe is excited to announce an upcoming ChemClear collection event in Victoria, offering agricultural producers and businesses a crucial opportunity to safely and responsibly dispose of unwanted or obsolete agricultural chemicals.

Rural Business

Unlocking AI potential

Dec. 2, 2024 | 2 min read

AI convert Charles Simons says technology has helped in cost saving and crop saving in the vineyard.

Agribusiness - News

Alliance offers fertile ground

Dec. 2, 2024 | 3 min read

The sustainable manufacture of bio-based herbicides is the target of a $1.3 million international collaboration initiated by the Global Bioeconomy Alliance (GBA).

Rural Business

Greeneye gives green light to field trials

Dec. 1, 2024 | 4 min read

Greeneye Technology, the pioneer of AI-enabled precision spraying technology proven to reduce non-residual herbicide use in farming by an average of 87 per cent has announced its first field trials outside the US.

Agribusiness - News

Mixed priced trends for ag commodities

Dec. 1, 2024 | 2 min read

Australian wheat, canola and sugar were among the agricultural commodities to experience price gains in September, according to NAB’s October Rural Commodities Wrap.

Merchandise

If glypho doesn’t work on volunteer canola there’s CALLISTO

Nov. 29, 2024 | 3 min read

Managing volunteer canola in the cereal phase can be a tricky proposition, especially where RoundUp Ready varieties negate the effectiveness of glyphosate applications in the fallow phase.

Market insight

Video venture aimed at rural and regional marketers

Nov. 28, 2024 | 2 min read

Jason Kilgour and Andrew Barton are showing agri-marketers a whole new vision for their future.

Market insight - Summer horticulture

SIMODIS insecticide wins the west

Nov. 27, 2024 | 4 min read

SIMODIS insecticide is a new insecticide from Syngenta, exceeding industry expectations from north to south, and east to west, in under two years from launch.

Merchandise

Flikka of light for sucking pest control

Nov. 26, 2024 | 3 min read

Flikka from Colin Campbell (Chemicals) is an ideal product to rotate in any program aiming to prevent the development of resistance to sucking insect pests.

Agribusiness - News

Recovery with RIC drought loan

Nov. 25, 2024 | 3 min read

With the assistance of a drought loan from RIC (Regional Investment Corporation), Michelle Walton-Hassell and her husband John have recovered from drought, prepared their mixed farm business for future dry conditions, and improved financial position for succession.

Merchandise

Make resistance management moves with CHESS

Nov. 24, 2024 | 2 min read

Recent reports of control failures for silverleaf whitefly and resistance to spirotetramat (Group 23) in some green peach aphid populations in Queensland have many growers on the lookout for different rotation options.

Merchandise

Soak-N-Wet improves crop establishment

Nov. 23, 2024 | 2 min read

Improve crop establishment with SOAK-N-WET

Market insight - Summer cropping

The Edge over Fall armyworm

Nov. 22, 2024 | 4 min read

Adam Harber has seen firsthand how much damage Fall armyworm can do to a crop and how quickly it can happen.