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Andrew Mole

First rule of Lamb Club - everyone invited

MALLEE farmers Clay Gowers and Tegan Buckley are looking to turn the local lamb industry into a club – and everyone is invited to join. The Carwarp couple have launched Lamb Club Australia, and while the initial focus is local, the...

27 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Stubbles an important forage

WITH headers coming out of sheds across the Mallee in the next few weeks there are some big numbers involved which tend to escape people. Such as stubbles, and what they are truly worth to mixed operations and graziers. Across Australi...

22 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Carbon farming made clearer

THE man behind the Net Zero Agriculture Cooperative Research Centre will explain the science behind carbon farming at next week’s Birchip Cropping Group chair’s breakfast. University of Melbourne professor of carbon farming Richard...

13 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Watering down growth practices

DESPITE all the progress across the generations, the search continues for a better way to maximise the use of water and cereal yield potential in low and medium-rainfall zones, such as the Mallee, to help grain growers in these regions achieve new...

13 Oct 2024

News

All happening at almond event

THE north west Victorian and south west New South Wales almond industry arrived in Adelaide en masse this week for the 2024 Australian Almond Conference. Where attendees heard Haifa Group chief executive Motti Levin open the conference with...

06 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Reducing inputs a hard nut to crack

THE Sunraysia almond industry has relocated to South Australia for the week with Australian Almond Conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre underway. As part of the event experts are seeking to map out the next phase of the...

02 Oct 2024

Farming and Environment

Red, Whyte and blue: One family’s effort to increase moisture levels in the Rangelands

AS one of four pastoral enterprises in the Rangelands Living Skin project, Kelly and Gus Whyte first appeared in North West Farmer in 2023 with their visually spectacular and environmentally ingenious ponding strategy at their Wentworth station...

28 Sep 2024

Farming and Environment

Mallee joins rush on sheep

THE livestock market has taken a big leap forward in recent weeks, and the sheep job in particular has stormed back into top gear, with prices across the Mallee sharing in the splurge. Elders livestock specialist Matt Rowlands said prices for lambs...

21 Jul 2024

Farming and Environment

MSF lands a big hitter

MALLEE Sustainable Farming has just added one of agricultural Australia’s heavy hitters to its board, but no-one is sure who was the most surprised. Dr Sean Mason when he was invited, or MSF when he accepted. Recognised as one of the country’s...

21 Jul 2024

Farming and Environment

Spotlight on wine future

INDUSTRY and government big guns will be in Mildura on Wednesday, when critical issues confronting wine-grape growers and winemakers headline the Murray Valley Winegrowers Outlook Forum. MVW chief executive Paul Derrico said speakers would deliver...

08 Jun 2024

Arts & Entertainment

Snag that nearly sank river writer

Bestselling Australian author Darry Fraser will take historical drama fans on a journey through colonial Australia and along the Murray River when she visits Wentworth in December. Her ninth novel in seven years, The Milliner of Bendigo, is published this month. ANDREW MOLE reports.

19 Nov 2023

News

Red alert: Wine growers facing glut crisis

SUNRAYSIA wine-grape growers are now waiting for the blow to fall here after industry giant Accolade Wines told cabernet and shiraz growers in SA’s Riverland to mothball their vines or switch varieties.

05 Sep 2022