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Our People: Back in black

4:30 AM AEDT | SHELTER from the storm soon turned into a new business venture and lifestyle change for Bud and Lana Stephenson. | Trials prove strengths of durum Visit Stock Journal

| SARDI issues net blotch alert Visit Stock Journal

Agribusiness and General - General

Industry experience key to new ag degree

4:30 AM AEDT | GREATER focus on science and industry experience is planned for students starting their first year of the University of Adelaide's new agriculture degree. | Trials prove strengths of durum Visit Stock Journal

| Drill lifts yield bar Visit Stock Journal

Education - General

Fast tracking dairy genetics

4:30 AM AEDT | Genetic gain in Australian dairy herds is about to get a helping hand, thanks to genomics - the use of DNA data to help in the calculation of Australian Breeding Values to predict the commercial performance of animals. | Dairy calf options close Visit Stock Journal

| Outlook '10: Milk prices ... Visit Stock Journal

Dairy - General

Bushfire response should be prevention: AFI

4:00 AM AEDT | THE best fire-fighting units available are worthless in the face of a bushfire whipped up by heavy fuel loads - so why does bushfire policy pay such scant attention to fire prevention? | With pressure at home, Kevin747 ... | 25% emissions cut at $4 a week ... | GALLERY: Photos from SA's Mid North ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Anxiety over fert grows

4:00 AM AEDT | THE nation's farmers are again confronting issues with their fertiliser orders, both in terms of supply and pricing. | No GMs until 2014 Visit Stock Journal

| McGinniss returns to CBH board ... Visit Farm Weekly

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Grains and Cropping - General

US animal standards fight restarts in Ohio

4:00 AM AEDT | The Ohio House voted 90 to 0 last week to establish the Ohio Livestock Standards Board. | Arki beefs up presence in ... Visit Stock Journal

| US states take action against ... | GALLERY: Photos from SA's Mid North ...

Agribusiness and General - General

SE can be Aust's future salad bowl

20 Mar 10 | POPULATION pressure in traditional vegetable growing areas, water quality and good growing conditions all point to the Mount Gambier district being Australia's summer salad bowl. | Random fruit fly roadblocks net ... Visit Stock Journal

| Pt Augusta to boost local ... Visit Stock Journal

Agribusiness and General - General

No GMs until 2014

20 Mar 10 | SOUTH Australian croppers will have to wait another four years to gain access to genetically-modified seed, as both major political parties agree to extend the moratorium until 2014. | SARDI issues net blotch alert Visit Stock Journal

| Trials prove strengths of durum Visit Stock Journal

Grains and Cropping - General

Drill lifts yield bar

20 Mar 10 | MOUNT Cooper croppers Mark and Jesse Hull believe that the use of their new Morris Contour drill improves their operation both agronomically, and in terms of efficiency. | Trials prove strengths of durum Visit Stock Journal

| Australian operation lifts ... Visit Stock Journal

Grains and Cropping - Grains

Govt commits $632m to GP shortage

20 Mar 10 | THE understated difficulty in seeing a doctor in the bush underscored the Government's latest big health announcement to significantly boost training places for general practitioners. | Nothing Rudd does is good ... | States push back against ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Blackleg ratings out

20 Mar 10 | THE latest national blackleg resistance rating guide for canola varieties were released this week and will soon be available online, allowing growers to make informed decisions of which variety to grow this season to provide the best possible protection of their crops against canola’s most serious disease. | Wheat pools close | Nicoletti will follow through ... Visit Farm Weekly

| GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Grains and Cropping - Oilseed

Soybeans' foothold at Qurindi

20 Mar 10 | THE Liverpool Plains may be more than 300 kilometres from the coast, but that hasn’t stopped Brady Rutter sowing soybeans, a crop more widely grown on the North Coast.

Grains and Cropping - Grains

US states take action against activists

20 Mar 10 | THE Idaho Senate has approved a bill that would set up a Livestock Care Standards Board. The board would be similar to the one voted in last November in Ohio. Like Ohio, Idaho hopes to get ahead of any efforts by the Humane Society of the United States to influence animal welfare laws in the state. | Power struggle divides ... | US farmers vow to fight back ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Livestock - News

Something fishy about 60 Minutes ag chemicals story

19 Mar 10 | CHANNEL Nine program 60 Minutes is planning to run a story on chemical use within the Australian agriculture industry on Sunday night. | Soy delivers benefits over ... | Fertiliser shortage on the cards | VIDEO: Ardrossan Angus sale hits ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Irrigators hail on-farm funds as a win-win

19 Mar 10 | THE National Irrigators’ Council has welcomed the long-awaited announcement of the first round of funding for the Commonwealth Government’s $300 million On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program. | Below average rainfall crimps ... | Wong blocks out irrigator ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Wool in vogue in baby market

19 Mar 10 | ABOUT 12 months ago I met with wool buyer Adrian Field at a stud Merino information day and learnt about a little project he and his wife Melissa were about to get involved in. | Winter leisure market a great ... Visit Stock & Land

| Woolmark issues behind ... Visit Farm Weekly

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Wool - General

Health from an eggshell

19 Mar 10 | ABOUT 60 years ago, Hollis Osborne bought a feed supply business at the border of Missouri and Arkansas and built it into one of the country's five largest commercial egg producers: Moark LLC. | Buying organic to save planet? ... | Eggs, meat important to fetus | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Climate needs "science" focus

19 Mar 10 | CAUGHT off-balance by the politicisation of climate science, Australia’s major climate agencies are trying to wrest the global warming debate away from opinion columns, blog sites and the front steps of Parliament House, and bring it all back to the science. |

Comments (3) | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | 25% emissions cut at $4 a week ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Feds must step in to manage flood water

19 Mar 10 | THERE are calls for the Federal Government to step in and manage all big future floods, following confirmation this week of extra flows from the big Queensland wet to South Australia. | Flood of promises to secure water Visit Stock Journal

| SA irrigators to receive ... Visit Stock Journal

Agribusiness and General - General

Training farming leaders of the futures at Mulloon Institute

19 Mar 10 | ECOLOGICALLY-friendly approaches to agriculture have a new champion, The Mulloon Institute, a not-for-profit organisation endowed by businessman and farmer Tony Coote. | Chicken king tackles fowl rumours | Schultes Meat Tavern brings ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...

Grains and Cropping - General

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