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Rain sets up winter crops across Queensland
9:57 AM ACDT | Queensland farmers have welcomed widespread rain in grain growing regions of the state and are forecasting a good winter crop thanks to replenished soil moisture.  | Two sides to world's GM ...Visit North Queensland RegisterBest practice delivers big ...Visit North Queensland Register
Vic prepares for planting season - but what to plant?
9:23 AM ACDT | THE planting season is soon upon Victorian growers and crucial varietal choices are being made as to what will excel in particular environments.  | Aphids teach scientists a thing ...Visit Stock & LandGrain Conference to address ...Visit Stock & Land
Increasing yields with clay
4:00 AM ACDT | YIELDS of crops grown on sandhills can be doubled by adding clay to the sandy soil, according to a clay-delving expert.
Emerald deal to continue meteoric growth
15 Mar 10 | EMERALD Group chairman Alan Winney believes a new investment from Japanese company Sumitomo will allow the Australian grain marketer to continue its meteoric rise.  | Emerald Group partners SumitomoVisit Farm WeeklyWAFarmers seeks new grain leadersVisit Farm Weekly
ASIC will not pursue AWB bribe claim
15 Mar 10 | THE Australian Securities and Investmentst Commission has decided not to pursue claims by former AWB director Xavier Martin that he was offered an incentive to vote for the grain handler's constitutional change.  | AWB top-up to barley paymentAWB rumour mill grinds over ... | VIDEO: Awesome start to Tas weaner sales
Canola fills need for feed
13 Mar 10 | A CENTRAL West farmer expects more people will see canola in a new light because of the benefits he’s seen in growing dual-purpose varieties on his Wellington farm, “Spicers Run”.
Nicoletti to build silos if CBH stays co-op
11 Mar 10 | THE patriarch of Australia's biggest farming family is a man willing to put his money where his mouth is.  | CommentsComments (10) | Sitting members under attack in ...Visit Farm WeeklyCBH to meet growers over ...Visit Farm Weekly
GM disallowance motion voted down
11 Mar 10 | FARMERS and grains industry members have attended a critical sitting of WA Parliament, to support Agriculture Minister Terry Redman, and witness a fiery debate over a disallowance motion proposed in the Legislative Assembly, designed to prevent the growing of Genetically Modified canola in the State this year.   | CommentsComments (5) | Meeting called to address bush ...Visit Farm WeeklyRedman to attend crisis meetingVisit Farm Weekly
No need for wheat quality body: GrainCorp
11 Mar 10 | GRAINCORP has weighed into the wheat quality debate, saying that an overarching body promoting Australian wheat is unnecessary and would represent an additional cost to growers.   | CommentsComments (7) | Grains Council revamp meets ...Emerald Group partners SumitomoVisit Farm Weekly | GALLERY: Still more pictures of the ...
Combat carbon emissions with legumes
10 Mar 10 | LEADING soil scientists are promoting legumes within grain rotations as the key to reducing carbon emissions related to grain growing, primarily through their nitrogen replacing qualities.   | CommentsComments (6) | Graingrowers have good reason ...Grains Council revamp meets ... | GALLERY: Photos from Beef Spectacular
US ag groups urge court to overturn GM alfalfa ban
10 Mar 10 | The US Supreme Court will evaluate this April whether a lower court wrongly banned the cultivation of biotech alfalfa.  | CommentsComments (1) | Grains Council revamp meets ...Graingrowers have good reason ... | GALLERY: Photos from Beef Spectacular
Aphids teach scientists a thing or two
09 Mar 10 | IN RECENTLY unravelling the genome of the pea aphid, an international consortium of researchers has taken a major step towards understanding how to better control this bane of farmers and gardeners across the world.  | CommentsComments (2) | Farm groups back wheat quality ...GM crop production continues to ... | VIDEO: Spectacular conclusion with ...
Graingrowers have good reason to go Google
09 Mar 10 | GRAINGROWERS throughout the southern cropping region will be able to access crop variety trial data when locating trial sites through Google Maps.  | CommentsComments (3) | Abbott plans big new tax on ...The great storm clean up beginsVisit Stock & Land | VIDEO: Spectacular conclusion with ...
Grains Council revamp meets opposition
08 Mar 10 | AN AMBITIOUS plan to set up a new national peak body to replace Grains Council will have to overcome a lack of support from the largest state farmer organisation in NSW and WA.   | CommentsComments (14) | AWB, ASIC settle privilege ...Farm groups back wheat quality ... | GALLERY: Photos flood in from Queensland
WA Nuffield Scholar in search of the right mix
07 Mar 10 | EARLIER in the decade, specialisation was in vogue. Farmers were advised to focus on one aspect of their enterprise and be the best they could at it, whether it was cropping or livestock.   | Animals Australia attacks Egypt ...Visit Farm WeeklyEmerald Group partners SumitomoVisit Farm Weekly
Farm groups back wheat quality fears
06 Mar 10 | STATE farmer organisations have backed the calls by AWB’s general manager of commodities Mitch Morison to move to protect Australia’s reputation as a quality producer of wheat.   | CommentsComments (2) | Viterra promises changeBiotech must focus on poorer ... | GALLERY: Photos flood in from Queensland
AWB, ASIC settle privilege claims at 11th hour
05 Mar 10 | THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission and wheat exporter AWB have agreed to settle claims for privilege by AWB in relation to transcripts of interviews conducted by ASIC in its oil-for-food investigation on the day that a High Court appeal on the matter was due to be heard.  | ASIC gets another chance to go ...Why did AWB shareholders settle ... | GALLERY: Latest photos from Queensland's ...
Emerald Group partners Sumitomo
05 Mar 10 | THE Emerald Group has taken a significant step toward increasing its access to international grain markets by placing a portion of its capital with Sumitomo Corporation of Japan.   | CommentsComments (3) | GGA looks to expand westVisit Farm WeeklyOutlook '10: Demand jump won't ...Visit Farm Weekly
Viterra promises change
05 Mar 10 | VITERRA has pledged to strengthen its relationship with growers by modifying its approach to customer service.  | Outlook '10: Demand jump won't ...FREE Eyre aims to raise $2m for ...
Biotech must focus on poorer countries, smaller farms: FAO
05 Mar 10 | THE focus of modern and conventional biotechnologies should be redirected to benefit poor farmers in poor countries and not only rich farmers in rich countries, stated the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).   | Precision ag: the revolution ...Visit Stock & LandCBH "should" stay co-operative, ...Visit Farm Weekly | VIDEO: ABARE Outlook - what did you ...
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