Nufarm celebrates Crucial’s home soil wins

Nov. 4, 2024 | 2 min read
Crucial is on track to be the biggest product ever in its market segment for 2024.

Omnia’s success starts in Australia

Nov. 3, 2024 | 8 min read
For Omnia’s scientists, extracting humic and fulvic acids from brown coal is a little like alchemy – they take in incredibly base material and turn it into a glistening object of desire.

Nutrien triples manufacturing capacity

Nov. 1, 2024 | 2 min read
Nutrien Ag Solutions has started work to establish a new plant nutrition, crop chemical and animal health manufacturing facility in Laverton, Victoria. The facility will have the capacity to produce critical farming inputs for growers on the east coast of Australia.

What you need to know about barley stripe rust

Nov. 1, 2024 | 4 min read
Barley stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp hordei) poses a significant threat to wheat and barley production globally. Although not present in Australia, the grains industry is going to great lengths to keep this damaging disease from being introduced.

Annual conference highlights the future of fertiliser

Oct. 31, 2024 | 5 min read
Cairns served as a vibrant backdrop for Fertilizer Australia's annual conference in September, with over 200 delegates from the fertiliser and agricultural industries gathered under the theme "Sustaining Soil Health - Cultivating a Sustainable Future."

Green light for Trigall field trials

Oct. 29, 2024 | 2 min read
Careful regulatory oversight to allow genetically modified wheat trials is important for the sustainability of the Australian grains industry.

ASF hosts largest conference in history

Oct. 29, 2024 | 4 min read
The Australian Seed Federation (ASF) this year hosted its largest conference, with more than 170 attendees from across the country.

Early BASF carbon trial results

Oct. 28, 2024 | 2 min read
In a recently published report, BASF has shared the first results from its multi-year global carbon field trials.

Community Paddock expands to South Australia

Oct. 28, 2024 | 2 min read
BASF’s Community Paddock initiative continues into its third year with the announcement of its newest location – Maitland in South Australia.

Syngenta brings viticulture industry together

Oct. 5, 2024 | 3 min read
The seasons can be long and the opportunities to gather few and far between.  Rarer still, do viticulturists from across the breadth of Australia’s growing regions get the chance to meet face-to-face. Syngenta coordinated such an occasion, in July, dedicated to them and in part to thank nearly 100 guests for taking a keen interest in three pipeline Syngenta fungicides.

Incite Pivot unveils upgraded facility

Oct. 4, 2024 | 2 min read
Incitec Pivot Fertilisers (IPF) has unveiled its newly upgraded fertiliser import and distribution facility at Portland in regional Victoria, following a $20 million investment in the site.

$4 million to tackle septoria in oats

Oct. 3, 2024 | 3 min read
A new research consortium has been established to close knowledge gaps around Septoria avenae leaf blotch, a significant disease in Australian oat crops.

New test, new detection for fungicide resistance

Oct. 2, 2024 | 3 min read
Researchers at the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) have developed a new method for detecting fungicide resistance enabling them to detect multiple mutations, both known and novel, in just one test.

Workshops maximise grower profitability

Oct. 1, 2024 | 2 min read
A series of harvester workshops run across the WA grain belt have brought together harvester specialists, industry experts and researchers to give grain growers the latest advice ahead of this season’s harvest.

Cotton Australia awards

Sept. 30, 2024 | 5 min read
The Cotton industry’s top awards have been announced at the glamour event of the biennial Australian Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast, the 2024 Awards Dinner, with the top two awards going to Queenslanders.