30 Jan 09 | An electric car looks set to go on sale in Australia next year for as little as $30,000. One will be for display at next month's Melbourne motor show.
30 Jan 09 | On-farm dairy expansion plans are being reassessed as global milk prices send southern NSW farmgate prices down, too.
30 Jan 09 | Australia's largest private irrigation company has stepped into the water market to become the protector of the southern Murray Darling irrigation region.
30 Jan 09 | A report released on Friday has shown the combined effects of a rise in the quantity of vegetables sold and higher vegetable prices led to a 51 per cent increase in farm cash incomes for vegetable farms, on average, in 2006-07.
29 Jan 09 | The Federal Government pushed ahead with the announcement of a $4 billion fund to support the commercial property sector despite reservations from the Reserve Bank.
29 Jan 09 | The Rural Doctors Association of Australia has welcomed funding provided by the Federal Government to a variety of rural and remote health infrastructure projects in the latest round of the National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program.
29 Jan 09 | Tim Flannery loves it, Malcolm Turnbull wants it on the political agenda, and ancient Amazonian cultures used it to make soil that is still fertile after hundreds of years. Why aren't we knee-deep in biochar?
28 Jan 09 | AUSTRALIAN dairy farmers are not looking for reactionary trade barriers to help fight off the impact of export subsidies in Europe, but they are calling for some help at home, starting with the delay of the emissions trading scheme.
28 Jan 09 | THE TURN of the year has hauled with it many ongoing challenges and concerns for the farmer.
28 Jan 09 | AMIDST all the doom of a harvest combining lower than anticipated yields and poor grain quality, the arrival of a reliable water supply has meant Wimmera-Mallee farmers without ongoing access to water for livestock over the past five years will now be able to recoup their losses through intensive livestock operations.
28 Jan 09 | Finding enough volunteers for any organisation is a challenge these days and that is equally true for the hundreds of Country Fire Authority Brigades that operate around the state.
28 Jan 09 | IT WAS a trip not to miss out on, a first hand account of some of the most influential and controversial farmers in Australia.
28 Jan 09 | For many farmers 2008 was a memorable year for all the wrong reasons. While the drought continued to wreak havoc on production, the price of cereals, milk and wool fell sharply while the cost of fertiliser, sprays, fuel and interest rates ballooned, at least for the greater part of the year. To help you manage your farm as efficiently as possible, Alan Blackburn of Alan Blackburn and Associates Consulting, offers his advice.
27 Jan 09 | Farmers planning to buy or update equipment should be thinking about taking advantage of the Federal Government's temporary investment allowance, says the Commonwealth Bank's general manager of asset finance, Andrew Watson.
27 Jan 09 | STUD CATTLE BREEDING has become increasingly competitive with large numbers of seedstock producers all competing for their share of a shrinking cow herd.
27 Jan 09 | LIMOUSIN breeders across the eastern States of Australia are counting their pennies and preparing for the dispersal of one of the country's top herds - Timor Limousin stud.
27 Jan 09 | AT A footwear stand in one of the countless rows of leisure goods at the Outdoor Retailer expo in Salt Lake City, a bold sign lists Merino wool as a high performance fibre.
27 Jan 09 | The Elmore Field Days will be holding a Demonstration Day devoted to Tillage, Sowing and Spraying Equipment on the Elmore Events Centre site on Wednesday, 11 March 2009, commencing from 10.00 a.m.
27 Jan 09 | Over the the next five days, Victoria is in for the longest heatwave experienced here in recorded times.
26 Jan 09 | LARGE-scale Werribee South horticulturalist Amo Mason, Victoria, is a noted GPS steering enthusiast with four tractors sporting AutoFarm receivers but he’s also using GPS for 2cm precision height control of his land plane.
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