North West Farmer

28/07/2025

THE GRDC is kickstarting engagement to shape the next phase of research, development and extension investment aimed at tackling long-term challenges and unlocking breakthrough opportunities for Australia’s grain industry. The engagement follows the...

27/07/2025

Brett HoskingPresident, Victorian Farmers FederationVICTORIA'S farmers are being squeezed from every direction. Drought conditions, soaring input costs and volatile global markets have already placed unprecedented pressure on agricultural producers...

26/07/2025

Katherine Dunsford is a research scientist with Agriculture Victoria based at Horsham. She completed her PhD in understanding the causes of poor grain yield responses to N and P Fertilisers in 2019. Her areas of research include crop nutrition...

25/07/2025

Ausveg responds to the compliance crisis in Sunraysia and beyond.
With shocking rates of non-compliance exposed in Sunraysia’s horticulture sector, Ausveg is calling for urgent reform. A new white paper aims to cut red tape, ease the burden on growers, and protect our nation’s food security. It’s time for smarter, not more, regulation.

AUSVEG, the peak industry body for Australia’s vegetable industry, has weighed into the compliance controversy which has targeted the Sunraysia as one of the worst agricultural regions in the country for ripping off mostly seasonal...

24/07/2025

Tim Jackson Chief executive, Almond Board of AustraliaTHE nation’s leading expert of spray effectiveness and a leading research on insect management from California will be among the main attractions at the Almond industry’s Research and...

23/07/2025

DAIRY farmers with a new direction – Paul Monigatti, and his wife Katrina, and brother Bryan and his wife Bev – today run Rich River Chaff and Grain across two properties. One at Strathallan in northern Victoria and a second at Pretty Pine near...

22/07/2025

HENRY Barkley has been prepared to go a long way to realise his dream of becoming a John Deere service technician. What started as a fun time during school holidays, helping out on his uncle’s farm outside South Australia’s famed Barossa Valley...

22/07/2025

THE bid by farms services giant Elders to complete its $475 million takeover of Delta Agribusiness has hit a roadblock with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The corporate watchdog has issued a statement of interest (SOI) indicating...

21/07/2025

North West Farmer digital edition is now available.
https://www.northwestfarmer.com.au/digital-editions

20/06/2025

More blowback from buybacks.
Farmer-driven coalitions are lining up to demand an end to water buybacks out of the Murray Darling basin.
https://tinyurl.com/2yxhtqoe

19/06/2025

June edition of North West Farmer is now available.
https://www.northwestfarmer.com.au/digital-editions

01/06/2025

THE Victorian Government has announced its drought support package has been extended to farmers across the state. Revealed on Friday, the package was previously restricted to municipalities mainly in the south west of the state. At the same time...