The use of dual-purpose cropping on Mayfield Farm near Oberon in New South Wales has restored the farm from a “dustbowl” to a productive business with record-breaking canola yields. Farm Manager Peter Brooks attributes the yield – 7.16 tonnes / hectare – to the practise of...
Global Agribrands Minerva Foods and SALIC have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding to establish new agricultural operations in Australia. SALIC – the Saudi Arabian government’s agricultural fund – currently owns 211,000 hectares in Australia of which 158,000 hectares are arable and 90,000 hectares...
Australian agriculture needs to attract a significantly bigger amount of annual capital investment in order to reach the National Farmers’ Federation target of AUD$100 billion in farm gate value by 2030. That’s according to a new report released by Agrifutures Australia last month which included data...
ABARES has announced that the value of agricultural output is set to reach a record of $66 billion in the 2020-2021 financial year, a $5 billion increase on the record set in 2016-2017. Favourable seasonal conditions are the main driver of the increase in production, outweighing...
A New South Wales grazing aggregation has sold carbon credits worth around $500,000 to global tech brand Microsoft – the first of its kind involving an Australian grazier. Over the past three years, Wilmot Cattle Co has sequestered more than 40,000 tonnes of carbon using a...
While all plans for 2020 were swiftly hijacked by the outbreak of COVID-19, here’s hoping that 2021 will be a slightly more predictable period. Last year, Australian agriculture bucked the global trend of a contraction in job vacancies, growing by 0.37%. Considering the market forces...
Australian fruit and vegetable growers have reported losses valued at more than $38 million since December last year, due to the lack of seasonal labour available. More than 50 growers have contributed data to the National Lost Crop Register, which was established by Growcom late last...
Protests led by farmers near Delhi are entering their sixth consecutive month, after the Indian Government hurried three new agricultural laws through parliament without consulting a parliamentary committee for consideration. Since November last year, hundreds of thousands of farmers and supporters have taken to the border...
Fresh milk could soon have a longer shelf life, after food tech company Naturo, a subsidiary of The Wholey Milk Co, was given a $1 million grant to continue the development of innovative new pasteurisation technology. The federal government grant will be used to build a pilot...
A new application of solar power generation – agrivoltaics – is being deployed in paddocks and vineyards around the world, showing encouraging results for an ongoing partnership between renewable energy and agriculture. In a vineyard in Herault, a region of Southern France, an imposing structure towers...