21 Mar 10 | SHELTER from the storm soon turned into a new business venture and lifestyle change for Bud and Lana Stephenson.
| Trials prove strengths of durum | SARDI issues net blotch alert
17 Mar 10 | Farming in a low rainfall area such as the Upper Eyre Peninsula offers particular challenges.
15 Mar 10 | WORK will soon be under way on a new skills and trade training centre designed to teach students dryland farming techniques at Cleve Area School's Sims Farm.
14 Mar 10 | RETIRING in January as the Landmark South Australia state manager, Tony Wiseman has come a long way from the time he first started as a Southern Farmers clerk in his hometown of Cowell in 1970.
13 Mar 10 | CLIMATE change may mean south eastern Australia's climate will resemble that of northern Africa by 2050. But according to Tasmania's pasture seed company TasGlobal Seeds' Bob Reid, Australia's farmers should not be alarmed by the prospect of longer heatwaves, more summer thunderstorms, and up to a 10 per cent decline in annual rain.
12 Mar 10 | FARMERS could have the opportunity to source new income streams through carbon offset trading, according to University of Melbourne Associate Professor Richard Eckard.
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11 Mar 10 | FARMERS should not leave their fertiliser purchases for this coming season too late, with market forces putting upward pressure on prices, Direct Farm Input's Leighton Huxtable says.
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07 Feb 10 | A HORSE enthusiast for much of her life, Gill Beeson has enjoyed the chance to pass her love of equines onto others through the trail riding venture she set up on her Barmera property 12 months ago.
| Viper puts grower in clover | Farmers must tighten belts again
31 Jan 10 | TWO mates who met while working together at the Moomba gas fields and had never even owned a fishing rod may seem unlikely candidates to get caught up in the aquaculture boom.
29 Jan 10 | IT takes some people a lifetime to figure out their plot in life but Richie Foster always knew he was destined for a life in the shearing shed and stables.
29 Jan 10 | CLIMATIC certainty, central location to markets and a diverse production base give the Limestone Coast an economic advantage over many of the State's other regions according to Regional Development Australia-Limestone Coast chief executive officer Grant King.
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28 Jan 10 | MEMBER for Mount Gambier Rory McEwen is lucky to be bowing out of politics the same way he entered it - on his own terms.
28 Jan 10 | GROWING global demand for fertiliser is leading to fears of a long-term supply shortage, particularly of phosphorus.
25 Jan 10 | Attacking rabbits when they are most vulnerable is the key to effective control, says Rob Lincoln, Team Leader of the Northern and Yorke Natural Resources Management Board’s Yorke Peninsula Group.
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17 Jan 10 | A SEVERE illness which gave Bev Langley "absolute hell" for several years turned out to be the catalyst for the establishment of the Minton Farm Animal Rescue Centre and a project which has become a life work.
| Can livestock and no-till ... | Grain prices batter crop promise
06 Jan 10 | A WILD dog shot by Lower North farmer John Scobie last week is believed to have killed several sheep and lambs in the Kapunda area.
04 Jan 10 | PASTORALISTS in the Western Division of New South Wales are slowly recovering from the devastation caused by the northern dust storms in October.
03 Jan 10 | THE lucerne industry has been hit by a double whammy - export sales of seed are plummeting and demand from dairies for hay is drying-up because of low milk prices.
02 Jan 10 | THERE is a green tinge to the countryside caused by the rains in November, and it is not necessarily self-sown cereals, weeds or lucerne.
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