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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.
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.
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 Gill are showing agri-marketers a whole new vision for their future.
Market insight - Spring horticulture & viticulture

Controlling vine suckers with minimal labour

Nov. 27, 2024 | 3 min read
The challenge of controlling vine suckers in current labour markets is being addressed with a herbicide option in many vineyards across the Barossa region of South Australia.
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.
Market insight

Project aims to boost nitrogen in chickpeas and mungbeans

Nov. 16, 2024 | 2 min read
The GRDC-supported International Legume Inoculant Genebank (ILIG) at Murdoch University, led by Dr Jason Terpolilli, will spearhead efforts to characterise rhizobia strains in their collection.
Market insight

Understanding germination to improve yields

Nov. 15, 2024 | 2 min read
New research from La Trobe has identified ways to create more consistent seed growth across a season, ensuring bigger harvest yields for crop growers.
Market insight - Resistance management

Can weeds adapt to harvest weed seed control?

Nov. 14, 2024 | 4 min read
Research agronomist with the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative Dr Mike Ashworth said there is evidence long-term, consistent use of harvest weed seed control can result in patches of weeds that possess an evasion trait, including shedding seeds early, before harvest.
Market insight - Resistance management

When to mix and when to rotate

Nov. 13, 2024 | 5 min read
The mix-and-rotate WeedSmart Big 6 tactic aims to increase diversity within a herbicide program to delay and manage herbicide resistance. While rotating modes of action is relatively simple, mixing is much more complicated.

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Inside this issue
Above average crops expected for cotton
SA swoops on first varroa outbreak
Tour reinforces universal agricultural challenges
Planting stronger trans-Tasman connection
7 Worlds Ag celebrates first year
WA lupins poised to go global
Management: Doing less not more-the key to boosting productivity
Insights: Specialty fertilisers and nutrition, Resistance management
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