25/07/2008 | CONFIDENCE among South Australian dairyfarmers has increased significantly in 2008 because of record-breaking milk prices and international demand for milk products.
25/07/2008 | THE newly-formed Country Health Taskforce is set to embark on a consultation process and review of GP Plus Emergency Hospitals and their country communities over the next six months, headed up by former Eyre Peninsula farmer Peter Blacker.
25/07/2008 | THE HIGH Australian dollar has had a major impact on wool prices in the past six months, according to Woolmark Market Intelligence market economist Paul Deane.
25/07/2008 | ENERGY-conscious consumers wanting to reduce their carbon footprint through solar power can earn their household nearly $400 annually through a State Government feed-in scheme.
24/07/2008 | ANYONE with prime lambs to sell will have a huge grin on their face with South Australia's heavy lamb indicator closing last week at $4.68/kg dressed weight.
24/07/2008 | IT MAY not be a fashionable breed but time has proven Corriedales a great winner at West Cloven Hills, Darlington, Victoria.
24/07/2008 | BEEF producers have been doing it tough in the past two financial years with poor seasons increasing turn off and pushing up fodder bills, and the high Australian dollar crippling our competitiveness on the global market.
24/07/2008 | AGRICULTURE is going through one of its most challenging periods but still offers plenty of opportunities, according to former South Australian Farmer Federation president Wayne Cornish.
24/07/2008 | AWB needs to make further corporate and cultural changes if it is to successfully compete in the deregulated marketplace, says South Australian AWB International director James Rackham.
24/07/2008 | WITH no indications that fertiliser prices will ease in the next two years, it is critically important that growers look to secure stocks early, according to Australian Fertiliser Services Association SA president Craig Swan.
24/07/2008 | FOR the second time in three years South Australian Polwarth stud Mount Alma has blitzed a highly-competitive field to win Supreme Australian Long Wool Exhibit at the Australian Sheep & Wool Show at Bendigo.
24/07/2008 | THE Murray Darling river system should be cut loose from Adelaide, according to a Senator from South Australia.
23/07/2008 | The South Australian Farmers' Federation has thrown its backing behind AWB's push to do away with its dual-class shareholding structure.
23/07/2008 | Building a $20,000 base station on-farm is all that stands between Mallee cropper John Ramke and inter-row sowing with two centimetre accuracy next season.
21/07/2008 | Governments will be forced to consider hoarding water to meet the needs of regional towns dependent on the Murray-Darling river system by the end of next year.
18/07/2008 | The biggest change to the Australian wheat industry post-deregulation will be the increased volatility, according to ABB Grain general marketing manager Peter Jones.
17/07/2008 | The South Australian Farmers' Federation has welcomed an extension of the deadline for agriculture's coverage under the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme, saying industry needs every minute possible in order to prepare.
17/07/2008 | A FORUM designed to dispel "misinformation" about the new Country Health Care Plan has failed to quell concerns about the level of services in Mallee communities.
17/07/2008 | SOUTH Australia's Merino stud breeders will have their fingers crossed for a repeat of the 2007 ram-selling season of 80 per cent-plus clearances and strong averages.
17/07/2008 | YIELD mapping optimises the performance of farmers' greatest asset – their land, according to precision agriculture agronomist Felicity Turner.