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Market insight

Understanding germination to improve yields

Nov. 15, 2024 | 2 min read

New research from La Trobe has identified ways to create more consistent seed growth across a season, ensuring bigger harvest yields for crop growers.

Market insight - Resistance management

Can weeds adapt to harvest weed seed control?

Nov. 14, 2024 | 4 min read

Research agronomist with the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative Dr Mike Ashworth said there is evidence long-term, consistent use of harvest weed seed control can result in patches of weeds that possess an evasion trait, including shedding seeds early, before harvest.

Market insight - Resistance management

When to mix and when to rotate

Nov. 13, 2024 | 5 min read

The mix-and-rotate WeedSmart Big 6 tactic aims to increase diversity within a herbicide program to delay and manage herbicide resistance. While rotating modes of action is relatively simple, mixing is much more complicated.

Market insight

Unlock potential with K-humate

Nov. 12, 2024 | 3 min read

K-humate is a highly concentrated source of humic acids which is sourced and produced in Australia. The product’s high quality and proven performance is now well recognised all over the world.

Market insight

Using natures nitrogen with N-Leaf

Nov. 11, 2024 | 2 min read

Nitrogen needs and usage efficiency can be important levers to understand and support. With growers needing more access to natural, organic sources, biofertilisers like N-Leaf give them an option to support their crops nitrogen needs using natural bacteria.

Market insight

Key fertiliser prices coming off the boil

Nov. 8, 2024 | 3 min read

Prices for the three major fertilisers used by Australian farmers – nitrogen, phosphates and potash – have gradually eased from the highs seen in 2022, following the sharp spike in global fertiliser prices with the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war. Report co-author and RaboResearch agriculture analyst Paul Joules said high fertiliser have begun to slowly flatten out.

Commentary

Farming confidence on the rebound

Nov. 7, 2024 | 4 min read

Rabobank group executive for country banking Australia, Marcel van Doremaele says more promising market signals, particularly in the livestock sectors, along with positive seasonal conditions and production outlooks in many parts of the country, had resulted in farmers taking an overall more bullish view this quarter.

Market insight

Research to assess financial impacts of organic wastes as fertilisers

Nov. 7, 2024 | 2 min read

A study by a Charles Sturt University agribusiness academic explores on farm variable inputs in southern NSW to establish the economic benefits of the use of organic matter in agriculture.

Merchandise

Spotlight shines the light on labor saving

Nov. 6, 2024 | 3 min read

Barrick Parker, of Gundagai Vineyards, used Spotlight® Plus Herbicide in preference to manual labour to control suckers at the base of the vines.

Cattle health - Merchandise

Innovative new weapon in bloat control

Nov. 6, 2024 | 3 min read

Leaders in ruminant nutrition innovation, Wagga Wagga based AusFarm Nutrition Products (ANP), have been working with cattle and sheep producers for almost two decades to boost the productivity and profitability of extensive grazing systems.

Merchandise

Elite varieties unveiled by AGT for 2025

Nov. 5, 2024 | 4 min read

Australia’s largest plant breeding company, Australian Grain Technologies (AGT), has recently announced the release of seven new field crop varieties, available for the 2025 season.

Merchandise

Get coverage from A-Z for blowfly and lice control.

Nov. 5, 2024 | 2 min read

With a big blowfly season ahead of us, blowfly prevention product use is going to once again be heavily relied upon. Many producers are now reporting the need for more than one product application to get them through a season.

Rural Business

Nufarm celebrates Crucial’s home soil wins

Nov. 4, 2024 | 2 min read

Crucial is on track to be the biggest product ever in its market segment for 2024.

Management

Create high-performing teams by merging belonging and performance

Nov. 4, 2024 | 3 min read

Georgia Russell says finding ways for people to feel a sense of belonging and achieve high performance is essential for fostering a workplace where employees feel valued and motivated while driving organisational success.

Rural Business

Omnia’s success starts in Australia

Nov. 3, 2024 | 8 min read

For Omnia’s scientists, extracting humic and fulvic acids from brown coal is a little like alchemy – they take in incredibly base material and turn it into a glistening object of desire.

Rural Business News

Understanding germination to improve yields

Can weeds adapt to harvest weed seed control?

When to mix and when to rotate

Unlock potential with K-humate

Using natures nitrogen with N-Leaf

Key fertiliser prices coming off the boil

Farming confidence on the rebound

Research to assess financial impacts of organic wastes as fertilisers

Spotlight shines the light on labor saving

Innovative new weapon in bloat control

Elite varieties unveiled by AGT for 2025

Get coverage from A-Z for blowfly and lice control.

Nufarm celebrates Crucial’s home soil wins

Create high-performing teams by merging belonging and performance

Omnia’s success starts in Australia

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