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Using the right rodenticide matters

April 22, 2025 | 5 min read

Careful product selection can not only optimise the success of your rodent control program but help to minimise the unintentional poisoning of non-target species.

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Trezac Arylex active helping graziers extinguish fireweed

April 16, 2025 | 3 min read

Livestock producers have greater ability to control the highly invasive fireweed, with Trezac Arylex active now registered for use in grass pastures via boom application.

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Quality is the key for WA family farm

April 16, 2025 | 3 min read

Verpixo Adavelt active is a new Group 21 fungicide from Corteva Agriscience designed to protect melons and other cucurbit crops from damaging diseases such as powdery mildew and gummy stem blight.

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Downforce with Good Earth to power sustainable cotton

April 8, 2025 | 5 min read

Danielle Statham describes her discovery of Downforce Technologies ‘remote measurements of soil organic carbon (SOC) which provide historic data and annual monitoring of carbon at 10m resolution, as a game changer.

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Innovative smoke sensor helping winegrowers during bushfire

April 7, 2025 | 4 min read

A smoke sensor developed by La Trobe University researchers that has the potential to save hundreds of millions of dollars in lost wine production, is in the process of being rolled out across the wine industry, with monitors most recently being used to track the impact of bush res that have ravaged Victoria’s Grampians.

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Rabbait ready for the year of the rabbit

March 18, 2025 | 2 min read

Rabbit populations are increasing across the southern states due to favourable breeding conditions coupled with apparent declines in the effectiveness of bio-controls, ACTA general manager Bradley Power says in 2025 there is again an increasing reliance on baiting to help control rabbit numbers - resellers and government agencies are relying on ACTA Rabbit pindone oat and carrot baits.

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Impact introduces N-Guard

March 18, 2025 | 1 min read

Impact Fertilisers has launched its new nitrogen efficiency product, N-Guard. N-Guard is a urease inhibitor (NBPT)which helps safeguard against atmospheric nitrogen losses.

Cattle health

Collaboration key to ultimate genotypes in livestock

March 14, 2025 | 2 min read

University of Queensland researchers are setting the agenda for breeding low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency and high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops as they search for the ultimate genotype.