SA government offers low-interest drought loans to farmers
By Cassandra Hough, Selina Green, and Matt Stephens
The SA government has stepped in with an "unprecedented" offer of direct low-interest loans to farmers hit hard by years of drought.
#Droughts #GrainGrowing #SheepFarming #BeefCattleFarming #LivestockFarming #Farmers #RuralandRemoteCommunities #SmallBusinesses #GovernmentFunding #CassandraHough #SelinaGreen # #MattStephens
'Amazing' WA grain harvest set to break record with 27 million tonnes
By Kate Forrester and Mark Bennett
Western Australia's grain growers are on track to deliver a record harvest this season, breaking the previous 2022 record by almost 2 million tonnes.
'Amazing' WA grain harvest set to break record with 27 million tonnes
By Kate Forrester and Mark Bennett
Western Australia's grain growers are on track to deliver a record harvest this season, breaking the previous 2022 record by almost 2 million tonnes.
Grain growers use new techniques to make every raindrop count
By Emily Doak
New techniques and technology are allowing southern NSW grain growers to produce a harvest, despite significantly below-average rainfall.
#CropHarvesting #SustainableandAlternativeFarming #GrainGrowing #Droughts #EmilyDoak
Farmers flock to online group to connect during the highs and lows
By Cassandra Hough and Selina Green
A group dedicated to Australian grain farming created more than a decade ago has just cracked 100,000 followers with about 20,000 people following from overseas.
#GrainGrowing #Harvesting #CropHarvesting #Droughts #Photography #CassandraHough #SelinaGreen
Move aside sheep, crops are taking over in mixed-farming regions
By Angus Verley
Mixed farming, which involves growing crops and rearing livestock, used to be standard practice in Australia, but there are almost 100 million fewer sheep in Australia than there were 35 years ago.
Rabbit population boom blamed on lack of funding for biological control
By Joanna Prendergast, Kate Forrester, and Rachel Boothman
Landholders across Australia say rabbit numbers in some areas are at levels never seen before.
#Pests #PestsDiseasesandControlMethods #FederalGovernment #GrainGrowing #JoannaPrendergast #KateForrester # #RachelBoothman
Move over Hottest 100, farmers have their own music poll for harvest
By Elsie Adamo, Selina Green, and Brooke Neindorf
Forget the Hottest 100 music countdown, farmers have their own annual music poll to get though the long harvest after two consecutive years of drought.
#Music #CropHarvesting #GrainGrowing #RegionalCommunities #Farmers #RuralandRemoteCommunities #AgriculturalWorkers #AgriculturalCrops #AgriculturalandFarmingPractice #Droughts #ElsieAdamo #SelinaGreen # #BrookeNeindorf
China imports first Australian canola shipment in five years
By Tara de Landgrafft and Joanna Prendergast
China is accepting the first bulk shipment of Australian canola in five years and farmers are hoping the trial leads to a formal resumption of the trade.
#Trade #GrainGrowing #Exports #TaradeLandgrafft #JoannaPrendergast
Hail stones and heavy rain wreak havoc for WA farmers and businesses
By Kate Forrester, Andrew Chounding, and Joanna Prendergast
Severe weather has swept through large parts of the Great Southern and Wheatbelt, causing significant damage to crops during the critical harvest period.
#Storms #WeatherWarnings #Hail #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #GrainGrowing #KateForrester #AndrewChounding # #JoannaPrendergast
Worrying signs another mouse plague could be on the way
By Angus Verley
The CSIRO is urging farmers to reduce opportunities for mice breeding this harvest season as the threat of a pest population boom looms.
Farmers 'on a knife edge' as forecast rain fails to appear
By Angus Verley
Some Victorian farmers are cutting crops for hay as the drought continues to bite in the nation's south-east.
#GrainGrowing #Droughts #Rain #AgriculturalCrops #AngusVerley
Balloon pilots left up in the air by farmers' transition from sheep to crops
By Piper Duffy, Natasha Harradine, and Andrew Collins
The move out of sheep by an increasing number of WA farmers is having an unexpected impact on the state's hot air balloon pilots.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/crops-to-sheep-hot-air-balloon-landing-sites/105794124
#GrainGrowing #SheepFarming #TourismandLeisureIndustry #PiperDuffy #NatashaHarradine # #AndrewCollins
Authorities call on parents to check nappy pants for invasive pest
By Amelia Bernasconi and Michael Condon
Hundreds of cartons of nappy pants remain unaccounted for after one of the biggest threats to Australia's grain industry, khapra beetle larvae, was found in the imported products.
#Biosecurity #GrainGrowing #Pests #AmeliaBernasconi #MichaelCondon
Calls to review drought policy to better help struggling farmers
By Selina Green, Brooke Neindorf, and Kerrie Lush
The nation's drought supports will come under scrutiny at a major national forum today as southern farmers continue to battle dry times.
#Droughts #LivestockFarming #AgriculturalandFarmingPractice #GrainGrowing #AgriculturalPolicy #SelinaGreen #BrookeNeindorf # #KerrieLush
Bumper grain crop likely as 'unusually high' spring rain forecast
By Emily Middleton, Lauren Bohane, Tayla Larsen, and Amelia Bernasconi
The weather bureau forecasts above-average rainfall across the east coast in coming months, which is good for some farmers and challenging for others.
#Agriculture #Rain #WeatherForecasts #LivestockFarming #AgriculturalCrops #Farmers #Floods #GrainGrowing #EmilyMiddleton #LaurenBohane #TaylaLarsen # #AmeliaBernasconi
Major brewer focuses on grain grown sustainably by farmers
By Kath Sullivan
Australia's largest beer business will soon buy barley from farmers who have gathered data about how sustainably their grain was produced.
#GrainGrowing #FoodandBeverageProcessingIndustry #AlcoholicDrinks #EmissionsTrading #EnvironmentallySustainableBusiness #KathSullivan
Major brewer focuses on grain grown sustainably by farmers
By Kath Sullivan
Australia's largest beer business will soon buy barley from farmers who have gathered data about how sustainably their grain was produced.
#GrainGrowing #FoodandBeverageProcessingIndustry #AlcoholicDrinks #KathSullivan
Farm family buys back land it sold for scrapped nuclear waste site
By Arj Ganesan and Brooke Neindorf
A family that sold SA land to the federal government for a nuclear waste dump has bought it back.
#NuclearIssues #Farmers #FederalGovernment #GrainGrowing #ArjGanesan #BrookeNeindorf
Winter storms cause 'unprecedented' and costly delays at WA port
By Joanna Prendergast
Weather conditions at Geraldton's port cause record shipping delays, leading to cost increases and challenges for farmers, exporters and miners.
#MarineTransportIndustry #IronOre #WeatherPhenomena #WheatGrowing #GrainGrowing #JoannaPrendergast
