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Rabobank provides online farm financial skills workshops

July 25, 2025 | 2 min read
Primary producers across Australia have the opportunity to expand their knowledge, free of charge, at Rabo Client Council online workshops designed to help provide the financial skills essential to managing an agricultural enterprise.
Merchandise

Tough on mites, gentle on bees – that’s Raven

July 24, 2025 | 2 min read
Mite and sucking insect pests remain a significant challenge for growers across a broad range of crops.
Rural Business

Zoetis – a decade of making a difference

July 23, 2025 | 7 min read
With mental health challenges in rural Australia reaching increasingly concerning levels, leading animal health company Zoetis has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the wellbeing of the country’s farming and regional communities by continuing its long-standing partnership with mental health organisation Beyond Blue.
Agribusiness - News

CropLife releases new resistance management strategies

July 23, 2025 | 2 min read
CropLife Australia, the national peak industry body for the plant science sector, has just released the official 2025 Resistance Management Strategies for fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides.
Market insight

Understanding Legend broadacre fungicide

July 22, 2025 | 3 min read
Australia’s cereal and barley growers are all too familiar with the threat powdery mildew poses to crop yields and quality.
Biologicals - Market insight

ADAMA adds unique stubble management solution for multiple cropping benefits

July 21, 2025 | 3 min read
Growing crop protection formulation specialist and supplier, Adama Australia, has strengthened its early season portfolio with a new product addressing a key challenge many growers face prior to planting – crop stubble management.
Management

Three things a ‘Bento Box’ teaches about building a culture of care

July 16, 2025 | 3 min read
One of the most effective ways to begin building a compassionate work culture is by looking at a surprisingly simple concept: the Japanese bento box.
Commentary

Australia heads to record winter crop planting

July 16, 2025 | 4 min read
Australia’s farmers are heading towards a record-high winter crop planting this year, Rabobank says in its newly-released 2025/26 Australian Winter Crop Outlook writes Vitor Pistoia*.
Rural Business

Refining the double-break tactic for grassweed control

July 15, 2025 | 4 min read
A broadleaf crop double-break is keeping grassweed numbers down for the Curr family as they expand their area of cropland and complete the transition out of livestock production.
Cotton - Market insight

Central Highlands visit engages growers and industry

July 15, 2025 | 2 min read
A recent visit to the Queensland Central Highlands gave Cotton Australia chief executive Adam Kay the chance to meet with local growers and industry leaders to hear firsthand about regional priorities and challenges.
Rural Business

Investment targets mouse activity

July 15, 2025 | 3 min read
The ongoing threat of mouse activity to Australian grain growers is the focus of two key investments aimed at reducing the impact of mice in crops.
Cotton - Market insight

Cotton conclave set for Toowoomba

July 15, 2025 | 2 min read
Tickets are on sale for the cotton industry’s key learning and engagement opportunity, and the biggest trade show for cotton in 2025, to be held from August 5–7 in Toowoomba, Queensland.
Rural Business

Non-toxic weed control to boost crop production

July 14, 2025 | 3 min read
A non-toxic, environmentally friendly method of controlling weeds and pests in horticultural crops which has already proved successful in the US and EU will now be tested in Australia through a $4.74 million project led by La Trobe University.
Rural Business

Feedlot cattle can brush their stresses away

July 14, 2025 | 2 min read
Feedlot cattle with access to grooming brushes are generally more content, sociable and have less stress, according to recent research out of Murdoch University’s Centre for Animal Production and Health.
Market insight

Finalists announced for Australian Cotton Grower of the Year

July 14, 2025 | 2 min read
Cotton Australia has announced the finalists for both the 2025 Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year award and the AgriRisk High Achiever of the Year award, with the results to be announced at the Cotton Collective in Toowoomba in August.

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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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