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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.

Fencing, livestock handling & ID - Market insight

Barrier against wild dogs and livestock disease

April 10, 2025 | 2 min read

David Counsell and his wife Genevieve operate Dunblane a 15,000ha Mitchell grass property west of Barcaldine, in Central West Queensland, where their enterprise encompasses 15,000 Merino sheep along with 500 head of agistment cattle.

Fencing, livestock handling & ID - Market insight

Fencing in better pasture management

April 9, 2025 | 2 min read

On a recent visit to Justin Cooper’s 80 hectare property in Tasmania, the seasoned farmer and Gallagher territory manager shared his expertise on the principles and practices of rotational grazing.

Fencing, livestock handling & ID - Market insight

Livestock handling –there’s a better way

April 9, 2025 | 4 min read

Nic Kentish, a champion of the low stress stock handling (LSSH) system, was a guest on the Te Mania Angus podcast RawAg, where he outlined the game-changing protocols which create a world where stockmen and women get to understand what the animal is thinking.

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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.

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Extended shelf life for Tri-Solfen

Jan. 22, 2025 | 3 min read

The shelf life of Tri-Solfen, Australia’s market-leading pain relief and wound care solution for lambs, calves, piglets and horses, has been extended to 18 months.

Fertilisers - Merchandise

High K: Fertilising made simple

Dec. 27, 2024 | 3 min read

Kendon’s High K is a broad-spectrum liquid fertiliser designed to enhance crop yields, improve quality, and promote plant health.

Fungicides - Merchandise

First in the world to buy Xivana Prime

Dec. 24, 2024 | 4 min read

Downy mildew is one of the worst fungal diseases in viticulture, so when a solution in the form of Xivana Prime hit the marketplace, James Lusby from Tintilla Estate Wines jumped at the opportunity and was the first in the world to purchase the product.

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Grower discovers how MIRAVIS Duo fungicide protects peanut yield

Dec. 20, 2024 | 3 min read

It’s not often you get the perfect demonstration of the difference a well-timed fungicide spray can make. But for peanut grower Rod Grant, accidentally missing a strip when spraying convinced him his investment in MIRAVIS Duo fungicide from Syngenta was worth every cent.

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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.

Rural Business News

Using the right rodenticide matters

Trezac Arylex active helping graziers extinguish fireweed

Quality is the key for WA family farm

Barrier against wild dogs and livestock disease

Fencing in better pasture management

Livestock handling –there’s a better way

Downforce with Good Earth to power sustainable cotton

Innovative smoke sensor helping winegrowers during bushfire

Rabbait ready for the year of the rabbit

Impact introduces N-Guard

Extended shelf life for Tri-Solfen

High K: Fertilising made simple

First in the world to buy Xivana Prime

Grower discovers how MIRAVIS Duo fungicide protects peanut yield

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

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