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Anipro boosts performance

April 24, 2025 | 2 min read
At GrainCorp Animal Nutrition, we believe that nutritional supplementation is often the missing piece of the puzzle for producers looking to take their herd’s performance to the next level.
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Using residual herbicides to beat fence line resistance

April 23, 2025 | 5 min read
Fence lines can be a haven for weeds, perpetuating one of the biggest threats to agricultural crops, however growers have the opportunity to reduce this risk through the use of herbicides offering long-term weed control.
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Research into industry’s best grass herbicide strategies

April 23, 2025 | 4 min read
Independent, showpiece trials investigating the best upfront herbicide strategies put forward by crop protection companies against annual ryegrass are proving highly valuable for growers’ weed management planning.
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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.
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Boosting Brix leads to stronger crops

March 13, 2025 | 3 min read
With fertiliser prices on the rise, this approach becomes increasingly unsustainable. Chris Story, managing director of Kendon Plant Care, an Australian supplier of crop protection and nutrition products for over 70 years, explains the real issue lies in plant health.
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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.
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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.
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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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Agribusiness News -Waste to energy- using weeds as biofuel
APVMA cuts back fenitrothion use
Tour identifies grain research opportunities
Rural Business - Fungicide use may be placing canola at risk
Growers winning war on weeds
Ridley strengthens Tasmanian feed supply
Why emotionally intelligent leaders don't force change
INSIGHTS: Summer Cropping & Dairy
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