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The Night Shift

Posted 2024-12-20 13:00:44

The Night Shift

Posted 2024-12-20 13:00:44

Every morning, for years, Josana Pinto da Costa would venture out onto the waterways lining Óbidos, Brazil, in a small ...

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Spotlight On the Students Growing Kalo in Hawai’i

Posted 2024-12-18 14:57:57

Spotlight On the Students Growing Kalo in Hawai’i

Posted 2024-12-18 14:57:57

On a Friday morning in late September, the students in Naʻau ʻŌiwi gathered in Māhukona on the North Kohala Coast of ...

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The High Tech Farm

Posted 2024-12-16 14:13:21

The High Tech Farm

Posted 2024-12-16 14:13:21

Farming has come a long way in the last few years. We know, from the last census of agriculture, that farm life is ...

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grain Central

Posted 2024-12-16 00:13:27

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grain Central

Posted 2024-12-16 00:13:27

The Grain Central, Beef Central and Sheep Central teams are taking a short publishing break over the Christmas/New Year ...

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Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Posted 2024-12-13 15:09:05

Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

Posted 2024-12-13 15:09:05

This story originally appeared at Ambrook Research. Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate ...

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How Native Farmers Pair Ancestral Knowledge with Climate Expertise

Posted 2024-12-09 15:24:41

How Native Farmers Pair Ancestral Knowledge with Climate Expertise

Posted 2024-12-09 15:24:41

Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew ...

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WoolClip pushes associated NWD uptake to almost 100pc

Posted 2024-11-25 04:27:54

WoolClip pushes associated NWD uptake to almost 100pc

Posted 2024-11-25 04:27:54

AUSTRALIA’S online mobile tool for describing and consigning wool clips – WoolClip - has shown it can dramatically ...

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grain Central

Posted 2024-12-16 00:13:27

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grain Central

Posted 2024-12-16 00:13:27

The Grain Central, Beef Central and Sheep Central teams are taking a short publishing break over the Christmas/New Year ...

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Grain Central’s Nov-Dec 2024 news quiz

Posted 2024-12-09 05:21:15

Grain Central’s Nov-Dec 2024 news quiz

Posted 2024-12-09 05:21:15

Keep up to date with developments in Grain Central’s monthly ...

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Rain slows deliveries as GrainCorp intake passes 9.4Mt

Posted 2024-12-09 02:19:26

Rain slows deliveries as GrainCorp intake passes 9.4Mt

Posted 2024-12-09 02:19:26

Deliveries to GrainCorp's network totalled 381,600t in the week to today to bring total receivals for the harvest to date ...

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Grain Central - Cropping

Posted 2024-12-05 06:01:42

ABARES has cut its forecast for Australia’s 2024-25 sorghum crop to 2.1Mt, with area limitations from a big winter crop unable to counter healthy yield ...

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GIWA issues early warning on carry-over canola seed

Posted 2024-12-02 01:20:16

GIWA is calling on WA growers to ensure any carry-over canola seed is stored well and germination tested prior to planting in ...

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Signs of drift damage spark concerns for cotton growers

Posted 2024-11-29 02:18:55

NSW cotton growers have reported the first signs of off-target spray-drift damage as winter croppers look to control exploding weed populations in ...

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Crop Protection Forum lifts lid on resistance + PICS

Specialists from across Australia gathered at Highfields today for the annual Crop Protection Forum to find out about the latest in fungicides, herbicides, and ...

Posted 2024-11-27 06:24:42

Hopes high for above-average mungbean crop

Positive signs point to above-average mungbean production this season, with well-timed rainfall and strong global demand boosting interest in the pulse ...

Posted 2024-11-27 05:34:26

QUT project to reduce cotton industry’s GHG emissions

QUT will lead a project aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cotton production after receiving funding from the Federal Government and the ...

Posted 2024-11-25 05:25:05

Mammoth released as slow and steady wheat for early sowing

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

Posted 2024-10-31 01:37:27

Spinnaker: New barley launches across Australia

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 ...

Posted 2024-10-28 03:12:16

AGT releases new barley, wheat varieties

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

Posted 2024-10-21 01:55:48

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

Modern Farmer - News

The Night Shift

Posted 2024-12-20 13:00:44

Every morning, for years, Josana Pinto da Costa would venture out onto the waterways lining Óbidos, Brazil, in a small fishing boat. She would glide over the murky, churning currents of the ...

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Spotlight On the Students Growing Kalo in Hawai’i

Posted 2024-12-18 14:57:57

On a Friday morning in late September, the students in Naʻau ʻŌiwi gathered in Māhukona on the North Kohala Coast of Hawai’i Island to build beehive boxes. The apiary they are ...

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The High Tech Farm

Posted 2024-12-16 14:13:21

Farming has come a long way in the last few years. We know, from the last census of agriculture, that farm life is changing. The number of farms is dropping, while the size of the average farm is ...

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Can Human Urine Fertilize Our Crops?

This story originally appeared at Ambrook Research. Twice a growing season, a big yellow truck with the license plate “P4FARMS” pulls into Jesse Kayan’s farm in Brattleboro, Vermont, loaded ...

Posted 2024-12-13 15:09:05

Where Have All the Vets Gone?

When Aimee Thompson graduates from Washington State University Veterinary College in May 2025, she will not be heading to a bustling city or a thriving suburban clinic like many of her peers. ...

Posted 2024-12-11 14:48:38

How Native Farmers Pair Ancestral Knowledge with Climate Expertise

Mary Oxendine grew up in Robeson County, NC, among the Lumbee people. As a child of multigenerational farmers, she grew up picking peas and butterbeans, working with her grandmother making ...

Posted 2024-12-09 15:24:41

10 Fascinating Food Stories to Share Over Dinner

Food is personal. It’s more than just what you eat. It ties you to a community, to a culture. It can be history. It can be innovation. It can be an act of service to prepare it for someone ...

Posted 2024-12-06 15:53:16

Why Are Family Farms in Trouble?

Agriculture was once a cornerstone of the American way of life. Farmers helped build the country, and most of us depended on their products for the food we eat. But times have changed. Americans ...

Posted 2024-12-04 13:58:48

This Holiday Season, Choose a Gift that Supports a Farmer

In many cultures around the world, the winter season offers an abundance of occasions to gather, celebrate, and demonstrate gratitude or affection. While the act of gift giving is often viewed as ...

Posted 2024-12-02 13:45:26

Meet the Native American Farmer Promoting Northern New Mexico’s Indigenous Foodways

The aroma of cedar smoke fills the early autumn air, punctuated by the crackle of wood as Norma Naranjo rakes out hot ashes from the horno, a beehive-shaped adobe oven, with a long wooden paddle. ...

Posted 2024-11-29 15:37:37

Sheep Central - Lamb Production

Feedgrain Focus: More rain hampers southern harvest

Posted 2024-12-09 06:09:34

VALUES for southern barley and ASW wheat have firmed following rain that has slowed harvest and grain deliveries, but brought to life an SFW wheat market which will satisfy some consumers’ ...

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National Feedbase Summary 4 December 2024

Posted 2024-12-04 03:04:20

AUSTRALIA'S varied rainfall and temperature patterns last month significantly influenced biomass growth, underscoring the country's regional contrasts in feedbase ...

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Feedgrain Focus: Rain ignites quality concerns in NSW and Victoria

Posted 2024-12-02 06:10:57

RAIN interruptions to harvest across south-eastern Australia have bumped up feed grain values in the south as a few trade shorts put up their ...

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S&W Seeds Australia is rebranding as AlfaGen Seeds

FORAGE and pasture seed business S&W Seed Company is rebranding as AlfaGen Seeds under its new owner Avior Capital ...

Posted 2024-11-25 04:29:53

Feedgrain Focus: Prices ease despite patchy rain

RAIN across much of the northern region put the brakes on harvest last week and has slowed grain movements to a ...

Posted 2024-11-25 04:29:32

Adoption, not just R&D, is focus of MLA’s productivity push

FOSTERING effective red meat industry research and development is one thing, but it means nothing unless the technology or tool involved is being widely adopted by ...

Posted 2024-11-22 03:15:45

New MLA directors elected at 2024 annual general meeting

RED meat producers and industry representatives on Tuesday attended Meat & Livestock Australia’s 2024 annual general meeting, in-person at Tamworth in New South Wales and ...

Posted 2024-11-20 23:53:02

Ridley reveals ambitions to expand Tasmanian mill

AUSTRALIA’S largest stockfeed miller holds hopes to increase production at the mill it purchased this year in northern Tasmania, Ridley managing director and chief executive officer Quinton ...

Posted 2024-11-20 05:29:49

Feedgrain Focus: Prices go north on limited grower selling

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 ...

Posted 2024-11-18 05:18:43

National Feedbase Summary 14 November 2024

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 ...

Posted 2024-11-14 04:38:58

Grain Central - News

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Grain Central

Posted 2024-12-16 00:13:27

The Grain Central, Beef Central and Sheep Central teams are taking a short publishing break over the Christmas/New Year ...

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GIWA lifts forecast for WA crop to 19.88Mt

Posted 2024-12-13 04:26:48

GIWA has lifted its forecast for the WA crop now being harvested to 19.88Mt, up from 18.61Mt seen in its November ...

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CBH’s FY24 surplus plummets on smaller crop

Posted 2024-12-13 04:02:05

WAs CBH Group has reported a surplus for its financial year ending September 30 of $73.8 million, down 79 percent from $353.3M in ...

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Viterra receivals near 2.5Mt

Growers delivered 412,080t into Viterra's SA-based network in the week to Sunday to lift intake for the harvest to date to ...

Posted 2024-12-10 23:15:02

Canada’s roller-coaster season delivers mixed bag

StatCan's final 2024 survey shows Canada's cereal, pea and lentils crops return quantity and quality, but drought and disease harms ...

Posted 2024-12-10 03:27:05

CBH receivals nudge 16Mt in WA harvest

In CBH Group's second-biggest week of the current harvest, WA growers delivered 3.25Mt to take the bulk handler's total intake for 2024-25 to date to ...

Posted 2024-12-10 02:05:43

CQ crush plant build clear to start next year

Work on a new oilseed-crushing plant at Emerald in Central Qld is expected to start next year as parent Australian OIlseeds Holdings comes to the end of a mixed ...

Posted 2024-12-09 05:47:47

Grain Central’s Nov-Dec 2024 news quiz

Keep up to date with developments in Grain Central’s monthly ...

Posted 2024-12-09 05:21:15

Rain slows deliveries as GrainCorp intake passes 9.4Mt

Deliveries to GrainCorp's network totalled 381,600t in the week to today to bring total receivals for the harvest to date to ...

Posted 2024-12-09 02:19:26

JV to build new home for rice breeding in Riverina

RICE Breeding Australia, a joint venture between AgriFutures Australia, SunRice Group and the Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia, is building a new facility in the ...

Posted 2024-12-05 06:26:46

Sheep Central - Lamb Processing

Victorian wool grower raises integrity scheme concerns

Posted 2024-12-13 06:23:35

FOR the first time in 40 years, Hamilton district wool growers Michael and Cathy Blake will sell their Merino clip without a wool quality assurance ...

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Welsh-Kiwi combo fails in world sheep shearing record bid

Posted 2024-12-11 05:31:35

NEW Zealand’s shearing royalty packed a remote Wairarapa wool shed yesterday for what was the first trans-global attack on a world shearing ...

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Live sheep and lamb IMF measurement tool shows promise

Posted 2024-11-27 06:21:05

RELIABLE and accurate technology to measure intramuscular fat in live sheep and lambs would be welcomed in Australia, according to leading seedstock producer and high eating quality lamb marketer ...

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WoolClip pushes associated NWD uptake to almost 100pc

AUSTRALIA’S online mobile tool for describing and consigning wool clips – WoolClip - has shown it can dramatically increase completion of the important National Wool ...

Posted 2024-11-25 04:27:54

AWU and shearing contractors body agree on national regulator

AUSTRALIA’S peak shearing contractor body has given qualified support to a union proposal for a national industry employer regulator, but rejects a 'poverty wages' ...

Posted 2024-11-22 03:14:42

Handheld microwave device approved to assess lamb IMF

A HANDHELD microwave-based device that can non-invasively measure intramuscular fat in lamb carcases has recently achieved AUS-MEAT accreditation – paving the way towards the development of ...

Posted 2024-11-20 05:17:43

Record-breaker Nikki Lyons sets a mark for female shearers

NEWLY-MINTED world record holder New South Wales shearer Nikki Lyons believes one day a woman will be crowned the world's best ...