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Biologicals - Market insight

NEM reshaping Australian agriculture with science that listens

July 25, 2025 | 3 min read
Australian farmers face unprecedented challenges: climate variability, soil degradation, and rising input costs. In this evolving landscape, many are turning their attention underground – to the living systems which sustain healthy, resilient crops.
Fungicides - Market insight

Stellar residual protection and return on investment with Miravis Star

July 25, 2025 | 4 min read
From pulses to canola, Miravis Star fungicide has proven its worth in recent seasons, with extended residual protection against diseases and a strong return on investment.
Agribusiness

Rabobank provides online farm financial skills workshops

July 25, 2025 | 2 min read
Primary producers across Australia have the opportunity to expand their knowledge, free of charge, at Rabo Client Council online workshops designed to help provide the financial skills essential to managing an agricultural enterprise.
Merchandise

Tough on mites, gentle on bees – that’s Raven

July 24, 2025 | 2 min read
Mite and sucking insect pests remain a significant challenge for growers across a broad range of crops.
Rural Business

Zoetis – a decade of making a difference

July 23, 2025 | 7 min read
With mental health challenges in rural Australia reaching increasingly concerning levels, leading animal health company Zoetis has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the wellbeing of the country’s farming and regional communities by continuing its long-standing partnership with mental health organisation Beyond Blue.
Agribusiness - News

CropLife releases new resistance management strategies

July 23, 2025 | 2 min read
CropLife Australia, the national peak industry body for the plant science sector, has just released the official 2025 Resistance Management Strategies for fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides.
Market insight

Understanding Legend broadacre fungicide

July 22, 2025 | 3 min read
Australia’s cereal and barley growers are all too familiar with the threat powdery mildew poses to crop yields and quality.
Biologicals - Market insight

ADAMA adds unique stubble management solution for multiple cropping benefits

July 21, 2025 | 3 min read
Growing crop protection formulation specialist and supplier, Adama Australia, has strengthened its early season portfolio with a new product addressing a key challenge many growers face prior to planting – crop stubble management.
Management

Three things a ‘Bento Box’ teaches about building a culture of care

July 16, 2025 | 3 min read
One of the most effective ways to begin building a compassionate work culture is by looking at a surprisingly simple concept: the Japanese bento box.
Commentary

Australia heads to record winter crop planting

July 16, 2025 | 4 min read
Australia’s farmers are heading towards a record-high winter crop planting this year, Rabobank says in its newly-released 2025/26 Australian Winter Crop Outlook writes Vitor Pistoia*.
Rural Business

Refining the double-break tactic for grassweed control

July 15, 2025 | 4 min read
A broadleaf crop double-break is keeping grassweed numbers down for the Curr family as they expand their area of cropland and complete the transition out of livestock production.
Cotton - Market insight

Central Highlands visit engages growers and industry

July 15, 2025 | 2 min read
A recent visit to the Queensland Central Highlands gave Cotton Australia chief executive Adam Kay the chance to meet with local growers and industry leaders to hear firsthand about regional priorities and challenges.
Rural Business

Investment targets mouse activity

July 15, 2025 | 3 min read
The ongoing threat of mouse activity to Australian grain growers is the focus of two key investments aimed at reducing the impact of mice in crops.
Cotton - Market insight

Cotton conclave set for Toowoomba

July 15, 2025 | 2 min read
Tickets are on sale for the cotton industry’s key learning and engagement opportunity, and the biggest trade show for cotton in 2025, to be held from August 5–7 in Toowoomba, Queensland.
Rural Business

Non-toxic weed control to boost crop production

July 14, 2025 | 3 min read
A non-toxic, environmentally friendly method of controlling weeds and pests in horticultural crops which has already proved successful in the US and EU will now be tested in Australia through a $4.74 million project led by La Trobe University.

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Applications open for future cotton leaders program
APVMA's latest levies
Elders get Delta Ag green light
New technology at Halbury Field Day
Zoetis marks 10-year Beyond Blue partnership
Redox on a roll acrosss country and world
Why perfectionism is the enemy of authentic leadership
Insights: Summer horticulture, Technology update
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