Rural Review

Agronomist Stuart Buck said graziers contacted him for advice on pasture dieback ‘all the time’. “They ring me or email me asking what to do…

SHE’S just 23 but biochemist and environmentalist Tori Millsteed has made massive strides towards achieving a childhood dream of a world where agriculture is more…

UNIVERSITY student Tori Millsteed has been awarded a $120,000 scholarship to help bring her dream of boosting crop yields through genetics into fruition. The money…

BOONAH is home to one of nine trial sites the Department of Agriculture (DAF) is using to identify causes of pasture dieback and management methods.…

FARMERS grow all manner of things … corn, beans, carrots, lucerne, oats and hay … but what about insect larva and flies? Flyfarm in southeast…

OLIVER Warcup grew up on a farm in north east England, in a place called Berwick-upon-Tweed. “We had a farm and grew crops like barley…

INTELLIGENCE is the ability to adapt and scientist Michelle Axford is helping the dairy industry to do just that. Ms Axford is a PhD candidate…

DAIRY Australia found farmgate milk prices continue to strengthen as local milk production contracts and dairy remain a staple product for consumers. The company’s industry…

FUNGAL diseases that cost barley growers $177 million in yield losses each year could be eradicated following funding by the Australian Research Council (ARC) into…

A VACCINE for a sexually transmitted disease that renders cows infertile and triggers abortions is nearing completion. Scientists at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and…

GRAIN growers and crop farmers are being warned that annual ryegrass is mutating. The warning comes from Professor Bhagirath Chauhan, a weed and seed biologist…

DIESEL is the most widely used source of energy in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries at 84 percent of total energy consumption. Supply risks, rising prices…