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Cattle health - Fencing, livestock handling & ID

Cattle weigh themselves with Trutest

Aug. 26, 2020 | 2 min read

The Tru-Test remote walk over weighing (Remote WOW) system has revolutionised the way Australian cattle producers run their business as it means that cattle can now effectively weigh themselves – without a human in sight.

Business solutions & technology

Transport of hazmat: What do you need?

Aug. 25, 2020 | 3 min read

How premises interact with dangerous goods varies considerably from business to business.

Fertilisers

Cadmium information now available on the Fertilizer Australia website

Aug. 24, 2020 | 1 min read

Cadmium (Cd) is an element naturally found at low concentrations in soils. It's also found in many sources of phosphate and can accumulate in soil through fertiliser application. Plant uptake of cadmium is usually limited, but in some situations it may be high enough for farm produce to exceed maximum safe levels.

Winter cropping

Potentially destructive Russian wheat aphids found in WA's south-east

Aug. 20, 2020 | 1 min read

A foreign and potentially destructive pest has been detected in Australia's largest grain-growing state. Russian wheat aphids have been found on farms near Esperance in Western Australia's remote south-east. It is the first time the pest has been found in WA.

Knockdown & pre-emergent herbicides - Post-emergent herbicides

Understanding weed competitive traits in barley

Aug. 11, 2020 | 4 min read

Not all barley genotypes are equal when it comes to weed suppression and tolerance.

Winter cropping

Digging deeper to understand crop performance: Rhizoctonia

Aug. 11, 2020 | 3 min read

Why do cereal crops planted early into warm and moist soil appear healthy at the start of the season and then begin to show uneven growth from mid-winter to spring?

Agribusiness

Mapping grain paddocks from space

Aug. 10, 2020 | 2 min read

Scientists at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have solved a farming challenge using artificial intelligence to identify the boundary of every individual paddock in Australia’s grain growing region from space – around 1.7 million of them.

Winter cropping

Free kick for ryegrass control

Aug. 4, 2020 | 3 min read

Wheat and canola crops offer growers some really practical options to improve crop competition against weeds, particularly grasses, and vastly reduce weed seed set.

Winter cropping

Canola growers urged to monitor for blackleg in upper canopy

Aug. 3, 2020 | 4 min read

Canola growers are being encouraged to closely monitor crops for signs of blackleg infection in the upper canopy to avoid costly yield loss this season. Effective disease management will be critical for growers across the northern cropping region banking on a productive 2020 winter cropping season following the recent run of dry years

Rural Business News

Cattle weigh themselves with Trutest

Transport of hazmat: What do you need?

Cadmium information now available on the Fertilizer Australia website

Potentially destructive Russian wheat aphids found in WA's south-east

Understanding weed competitive traits in barley

Digging deeper to understand crop performance: Rhizoctonia

Mapping grain paddocks from space

Free kick for ryegrass control

Canola growers urged to monitor for blackleg in upper canopy

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