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GrainCorp, AWU settle NSW pay dispute

Posted 2024-11-19 01:30:01

GrainCorp, AWU settle NSW pay dispute

Posted 2024-11-19 01:30:01

Industrial action at GrainCorp’s NSW sites has stopped now that AWU members have voted to accept a deal which will see ...

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Fire ants located in turf in Northern Rivers region

Posted 2024-11-18 22:17:28

Fire ants located in turf in Northern Rivers region

Posted 2024-11-18 22:17:28

Detection of fire ants at Clunes in the Northern Rivers region of NSW has halted movement of turf from south-east Qld ...

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The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans

Posted 2024-11-18 13:00:06

The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans

Posted 2024-11-18 13:00:06

This story is part of a partnership between Verite News and Modern Farmer. Verite News is nonprofit news outlet covering ...

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CBH harvest intake leaps to 7.2Mt after 3.2Mt week

Posted 2024-11-18 06:03:41

CBH harvest intake leaps to 7.2Mt after 3.2Mt week

Posted 2024-11-18 06:03:41

WA growers delivered 3.2Mt of grain to CBH Group sites in the week to yesterday to to lift the bulk handler's total ...

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Feedgrain Focus: Prices go north on limited grower selling

Posted 2024-11-18 05:18:43

Feedgrain Focus: Prices go north on limited grower selling

Posted 2024-11-18 05:18:43

PRICES for wheat and barley in the northern region have shot up by $30 per tonne or more as consumers feel the pain of ...

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Nutrien Ag to build new WA fertiliser distribution hub

Posted 2024-11-13 03:48:20

Nutrien Ag to build new WA fertiliser distribution hub

Posted 2024-11-13 03:48:20

Nutrien is building a new bulk fertiliser distribution centre at East Rockingham, south of Perth, after a fire in ...

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Carving a path to the future with robotic meat cutting innovation

Posted 2024-10-10 06:59:01

Carving a path to the future with robotic meat cutting innovation

Posted 2024-10-10 06:59:01

RESEARCHERS at the University of Southern Queensland are advancing the development of automated meat cutting ...

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Chinese wool investment lifts and growers outline price concerns

Posted 2024-10-09 04:49:30

Chinese wool investment lifts and growers outline price concerns

Posted 2024-10-09 04:49:30

AUSTRALIAN wool growers and brokers were impressed by evidence of increased investment in wool processing in China during ...

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UNE lamb cut research finds grilling tastes better than roasting

Posted 2024-11-06 05:59:12

UNE lamb cut research finds grilling tastes better than roasting

Posted 2024-11-06 05:59:12

RECENT research on grilling rather than roasting lamb leg cuts has highlighted avenues for food service and sheep ...

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Climate-smart sheep strategies to be studied by CSU researchers

Posted 2024-11-01 06:13:17

Climate-smart sheep strategies to be studied by CSU researchers

Posted 2024-11-01 06:13:17

NOVEL sheep feed supplements and strategies to minimise heat stress and maximise lambing success in confinement paddocks ...

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The Community Organizing Effort That Helped Save an Urban Farm in New Orleans

Posted 2024-11-18 13:00:06

This story is part of a partnership between Verite News and Modern Farmer. Verite News is nonprofit news outlet covering New Orleans. You can read more of their work here. Chekeita Strong ...

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Dive Deep: The Future of Aquaculture

Posted 2024-11-15 13:00:50

Our waterways can feel unknowable. But just like in other areas of our food supply, there are people working to improve water conditions and ensure sustainable aquaculture practices are in place ...

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The Financials of Profitable Small-Scale Farming

Posted 2024-11-13 13:00:30

Just a Few Acres Farm in Lansing, NY has nearly 500,000 subscribers on YouTube, where seventh-generation farmer Pete Larson posts videos with titles like “The basics of cutting hay” and ...

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On the Ground With Food Banks Decolonizing Food

Michelle Scott, the communications and development manager for the Wood Buffalo Food Bank, recalls the lightbulb moment that cemented the importance of having culturally relevant food available ...

Posted 2024-11-11 13:58:13

How Cities Are Putting Food Equity First

At Modern Farmer, we believe that food is a right. More specifically, access to nutritious, locally-grown food, is a right. Unfortunately, not everyone has access (or enough access) to food. But ...

Posted 2024-11-08 13:00:32

Vanilla is in Crisis. Producers in Mexico Are Not Giving Up

Huberto Juan Martinez (54) is not at home when we stop in front of his house in Cerro Armadillo Grande. “He is working on the plantation,” his wife announces. Huberto and his younger son are ...

Posted 2024-11-06 12:00:20

The Farm and the Food Bank

Located on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay sits Alameda County, where Dig Deep Farms’ two farm sites grow rows and rows of fresh food. Dig Deep Farms is a Black-led and BIPOC nonprofit ...

Posted 2024-11-04 13:00:05

The Climate Stakes of the Harris-Trump Election

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Helene and Milton, the two massive hurricanes that just swept into the country — killing hundreds ...

Posted 2024-11-01 12:00:58

How to Reduce Your Plastic Usage in the Garden

When Briana Bosch started her Colorado flower farm, Blossom and Branch, the fifth-generation farmer—her family had a dairy and corn farm—mimicked what her family had always done: plastic ...

Posted 2024-10-30 12:14:02

On the Ground With Atlanta Schools Reducing Food Waste

In 2016, Carla Harward’s daughter, Sophie, came home from her middle school in Chattooga County and told her mother about two students who hadn’t eaten over the weekend. “I was ...

Posted 2024-10-28 12:00:51

Sheep Central - Lamb Processing

AMIC appoints industry affairs GM Tim Ryan as interim CEO

Posted 2024-11-06 05:59:39

THE Australian Meat Industry Council has announced the appointment of its general manager of industry affairs, Tim Ryan, as interim chief executive officer while it undertakes the process of ...

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Australia wins shearing and wool handling trans-Tasman tests

Posted 2024-10-28 06:26:09

A GALLANT bid to claim New Zealand’s first trans-Tasman machine shearing test win in Australia since 2010 has again fallen short with a defeat by almost 29 points in the series’ ...

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Kiwi shearers and wool handlers chase trans-Tasman clean sweep

Posted 2024-10-25 06:08:04

NEW Zealand’s shearing and wool handling team is gathering in Western Australia this weekend hopeful of a rare clean sweep of the trans-Tasman machine shearing, blade shearing and wool ...

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Full value of MSA lamb grading to come from cuts-based model

AUSTRALIAN lamb producers are putting more lambs through Meat Standards Australia pathways to boost eating quality for consumers — more than 2.37 million lambs in 2023-24. However, ...

Posted 2024-10-18 05:43:21

Dubbo shearer sets new nine-hour Merino wether record

DUBBO shearing contractor Steven Mudford became the only person to hold three world shearing record simultaneously when he took the wool off 421 Merino wethers in nine hours on ...

Posted 2024-10-14 05:24:16

Lamb carcase competition winners support quality payments

WIDER payment of lambs on eating quality traits is supported by the organisers and winners of the Central Murray BestWool Bestlamb Hoof and Hook Carcase ...

Posted 2024-10-14 04:44:39

Carving a path to the future with robotic meat cutting innovation

RESEARCHERS at the University of Southern Queensland are advancing the development of automated meat cutting technologies, teaching robots to ‘feel’ their way around a meat sample the way a ...

Posted 2024-10-10 06:59:01

Chinese wool investment lifts and growers outline price concerns

AUSTRALIAN wool growers and brokers were impressed by evidence of increased investment in wool processing in China during a recent Australian Wool Innovation-organised tour by future industry ...

Posted 2024-10-09 04:49:30

AMIC seeks new head as CEO Patrick Hutchinson steps down

THE Australian Meat Industry Council will shortly start the process to find a new chief executive following the sudden announcement yesterday that chief executive officer Patrick Hutchinson will ...

Posted 2024-10-09 04:49:17

WA shearer Danielle Mauger joins NZ Merino Shears elite

WESTERN Australian shearer Danielle Mauger has won the NZ Merino Shears senior shearing title – the third woman to do this in the history of the ...

Posted 2024-10-07 06:14:22

Sheep Central - Lamb Production

Feedgrain Focus: Prices go north on limited grower selling

Posted 2024-11-18 05:18:43

PRICES for wheat and barley in the northern region have shot up by $30 per tonne or more as consumers feel the pain of the grower’s focus on selling and shifting pulses straight off the ...

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National Feedbase Summary 14 November 2024

Posted 2024-11-14 04:38:58

AUSTRALIA'S national feedbase conditions at the end of October 2024 reveal significant regional variations influenced by ongoing drought, rainfall deficiencies, and changes in vegetation ...

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John Lloyd elected chairman of Meat & Livestock Australia

Posted 2024-11-11 23:47:01

MEAT & Livestock Australia has elected director John Lloyd to take over as the body’s new chairman, effective following the upcoming MLA annual general meeting on 20 ...

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Healthy livestock and farmers is the ultimate goal

STRATEGIES for healthy livestock and farmers will be discussed in a workshop in south-western Victoria this ...

Posted 2024-11-11 05:04:51

Feedgrain Focus: Northern trucks, trade busy with pulses

A BIG and fast-paced shipping program for chickpeas and faba beans is limiting the amount of feed wheat and barley being sold and executed in the northern market, where cereal values have eased in ...

Posted 2024-11-11 05:04:26

UNE lamb cut research finds grilling tastes better than roasting

RECENT research on grilling rather than roasting lamb leg cuts has highlighted avenues for food service and sheep breeders to improve consumers’ eating ...

Posted 2024-11-06 05:59:12

The Weekly Grill: Catherine Marriott on sustainability

In this week’s episode of the Weekly Grill podcast, host Kerry Lonergan sits down with respected leader for change and 2024 Nuffield Scholar, Catherine Marriott who presented at the BeefEx ...

Posted 2024-11-04 05:46:23

Feedgrain Focus: North firms despite harvest volume

HARVEST activity in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales has peaked this week, and prices have firmed as grower selling of wheat and barley ...

Posted 2024-11-04 00:53:10

Climate-smart sheep strategies to be studied by CSU researchers

NOVEL sheep feed supplements and strategies to minimise heat stress and maximise lambing success in confinement paddocks will be studied in a $2.2 million project at Charles Sturt ...

Posted 2024-11-01 06:13:17

Ewe udder assessment a ‘hidden gem’ for lifting lamb survival

EWE udder assessment is the ‘hidden gem’ among strategies available to Merino producers to maximise reproductive success, according to senior New South Wales research scientist Dr Gordon ...

Posted 2024-11-01 06:13:07

Grain Central - Cropping

Mammoth released as slow and steady wheat for early sowing

Posted 2024-10-31 01:37:27

InterGrain has released Mammoth as a non-vernalising APW wheat variety for the Southern and Western zones ideal for early ...

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Spinnaker: New barley launches across Australia

Posted 2024-10-28 03:12:16

A new malt-potential barley variety is being launched this spring, with seed crops currently being grown with Seednet Partners in Northern NSW, Central NSW, Southern NSW, Victoria, South Australia ...

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AGT releases new barley, wheat varieties

Posted 2024-10-21 01:55:48

AGT's first Clearfield barley and first udon wheat are among the seven new varieties it is releasing in time for the 2025 ...

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Another strong cotton season on cards for southern NSW

Southern NSW cotton growers valleys are eyeing another bumper season as planting wraps up across the ...

Posted 2024-10-18 03:59:30

Ord River strategy flags cotton as dominant crop

Cotton has been identified as the emerging dominant crop for the Ord in the WA Government's 10-year strategy to guide development of the ...

Posted 2024-10-14 04:10:06

New northern crop options explored at Tosari

Seed companies showcased the potential of new crops to add to northern NSW and southern Qld farming systems at a field day last week at Tosari Research ...

Posted 2024-10-09 02:50:48

Cotton planting starts with above-average crop expected

Planting of what is expected to be a 400,000ha national crop has started in NSW and Qld, where soil-moisture and stored water levels are buoying hopes for an above-average ...

Posted 2024-10-01 05:15:03

Rats’ delight in NW Qld chickpea crops a hit to growers

THE ESTABLISHMENT of broadacre farming in north-west Queensland has hit its latest hurdle with with native rats decimating promising grain crops over the past 12 months. Rat damage comes ...

Posted 2024-09-30 05:20:31

Maximus CL named sole recommended WA malt barley

GIWA has released its malting barley variety receival recommendations for 2025-26, with Maximus CL the only recommended variety for the ...

Posted 2024-09-27 01:46:42

InterGrain launches Granite CL feed barley

InterGrain has this week launched Granite CL, a quick-mid maturing Clearfield feed barley variety widely suited to Australia's growing ...

Posted 2024-09-20 04:07:29

Grain Central - News

GrainCorp, AWU settle NSW pay dispute

Posted 2024-11-19 01:30:01

Industrial action at GrainCorp’s NSW sites has stopped now that AWU members have voted to accept a deal which will see wage increases out to ...

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Fire ants located in turf in Northern Rivers region

Posted 2024-11-18 22:17:28

Detection of fire ants at Clunes in the Northern Rivers region of NSW has halted movement of turf from south-east Qld into NSW in a bid to keep the invasive insect at ...

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CBH harvest intake leaps to 7.2Mt after 3.2Mt week

Posted 2024-11-18 06:03:41

WA growers delivered 3.2Mt of grain to CBH Group sites in the week to yesterday to to lift the bulk handler's total intake for the harvest to date to ...

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GrainCorp receivals near 6.7Mt as Qld harvest slows

GrainCorp has received 6.67Mt in the harvest to today after deliveries for the week of 1.5Mt, according to the bulk handler's weekly Harvest ...

Posted 2024-11-18 03:20:51

Elders to acquire Delta Agribusiness

Elders has entered into an agreement to buy product reseller and advisory services provider Delta Agribusiness for ...

Posted 2024-11-18 03:15:11

Nufarm reports $6M loss for FY24

Nufarm has reported a statutory net loss after tax of $6M for its financial year ending September ...

Posted 2024-11-14 06:15:50

GrainCorp posts record FY24 crush amid earnings drop

GrainCorp's record oilseed crush figure is a bright spot in its FY24 results out today, which reflect a tough season in in some of its key areas last ...