Rural Business News

Agribusiness

ACCC green light for Graincorp’s XF bid

April 15, 2024 | 2 min read

The ACCC will not oppose the acquisition of animal feed supplement supplier, XF Australia Limited by Graincorp Limited (ASX: GNC).

Market insight - Winter cropping

Project to optimise nutrition for WA pulse crops

April 15, 2024 | 2 min read

Graingrowers will have access to new fertiliser guidelines to support the successful integration of newly adapted pulse crops into their farming systems through a research project, underway in Western Australia.

Fertilisers - Market insight

Fulvic acid the natural growth builder

April 8, 2024 | 2 min read

Seasol’s Trilogy fulvic acid product is organically certified and combined with Kelp (Seasol), for root growth and increase tolerance to plant stress

Pesticides - Rural Business

Pesticides keep you in business

April 3, 2024 | 3 min read

Way back in September 2023, crop growers were looking forward to this past season.

Fencing, livestock handling & ID - Market insight

Walk the Line (Post) with Gallagher

March 31, 2024 | 2 min read

The Gallagher Insulated Line Post is a tailor-made, fully insulated line post for low-cost, low-maintenance permanent electric fencing for cattle, horses, sheep and deer.

Merchandise - Sheep care & health

Six months off-shears lice free guarantee

March 29, 2024 | 3 min read

Don’t just ‘treat’ lice off-shears this autumn. Get a guaranteed, fully-effective outcome with Extinosad Pour-On or Viper Pour-On from Elanco.

Herbicide & fungicide resistance - Merchandise

Tenet eases weed control in canola

March 28, 2024 | 5 min read

NEW herbicide options are expanding the weed control toolbox for canola growers, helping alleviate concerns over herbicide resistance and the ongoing use of popular options, as well as crop safety.

Rural Business

The band behind the aid

March 26, 2024 | 2 min read

Leading animal health company, Elanco, is continuing its support of Australian farmers and rural communities via an ongoing partnership with Rural Aid.

Market insight - Snail & slug control

Don’t get slugged on your bottom line

March 20, 2024 | 4 min read

Economics should be one of the factors driving decisions about baiting and other control methods for slugs, seasonal influences and monitoring tools are another.

Market insight - Snail & slug control

Speeding up hunt for snail solution

March 17, 2024 | 5 min read

A recently completed project managed by CSIRO has renewed attempts at establishing parasitic flies in parts of South Australia, aiming to suppress Cochlicella acuta conical (or pointed) snail populations.

Cattle health - Merchandise

Pestivirus is a pest for bovines.

March 17, 2024 | 2 min read

Pestivirus is an insidious disease that is endemic in both the beef and dairy herds of Australia. It’s estimated that up to 90 per cent of herds have been infected.

Agribusiness

Strong start to 2024 for Grochem

March 16, 2024 | 3 min read

Grochem Australia has made an impressive start to the year by taking over the distribution of a suite of products from Sumitomo and adding four new ones to its expanding portfolio.

Merchandise

Beating glyphosate-resistant grasses

March 16, 2024 | 4 min read

In the face of widespread glyphosate resistance in their summer grasses, Condamine growers Jake and Felicity Hamilton of Krui Pastoral needed to change their herbicide use significantly.

Rural Business

Fall armyworm launches new assault

March 14, 2024 | 3 min read

Fall armyworm (FAW) are being detected at unprecedented levels in sorghum crops across Central Queensland, the Western and Darling Downs and northern NSW causing what experts predict, could be the most significant impact on sorghum since the pest’s arrival in Australia in 2020.

Commentary

The slowly changing face of the dairy trade

March 11, 2024 | 4 min read

Australia’s dairy import and export mix is “slowly trading places” – with export volumes falling sharply in recent years while imports have spiked, Rabobank says in a newly released report.