A statewide search is underway for five bright young minds from rural communities as NSW Farmers opens applications for its 2024 Tertiary Scholarships.
Agriculture
Posted inAgriculture, Armidale, Barraba
Armidale’s Michael Crowley to be new CEO of MLA
Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has announced that Michael Crowley will be its next Managing Director, starting in the role on 27 May.
Posted inAgriculture, Local News
NRAR uses satellites to watch for illegal floodplain harvesting
Attention Farmers: With the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting possible significant falls of rain in the north of the state over the weekend and into next week, water users in the Border Rivers and Gwydir Valley water-sharing areas are reminded they can’t harvest floodwater without a licence and compliant metering equipment.
Posted inAgriculture
Competing bids for ownership of Namoi Cotton
One of the New England’s largest businesses is currently in a bidding war, with Olam Agri outbidding global agribusiness Louis Dreyfus Company in a bid for complete ownership of Australia’s largest cotton ginning company.
Posted inAgriculture
Seed orchards to conserve threatened eucalypt populations on Northern Tablelands
Researchers from the University of New England (UNE) are helping to bolster the future of some of the Northern Tablelands’ most threatened ecological communities
Posted inAgriculture
Nominations open for Local Land Services board elections
Local Land Services will hold an election this May to fill local board member roles across the state. This is an opportunity for ratepayers to put their hand up and participate so their local board reflects the needs of their unique region.
Posted inAgriculture, Gunnedah Shire, Liverpool Plains Shire
Cover cropping field day reveals how to roller crimp your way to better soil
A field day in Emerald Hill next week will be demonstrating the possibilities of improving soil through the use of cover crops and a new-ish practice called roller crimping.
Posted inAgriculture, Tamworth
Saving the Booroolong Frog in the Cockburn River – no croaking matter
The endangered Booroolong Frog may be on the road to recovery after an army of NSW Government scientists teamed up to save it with a targeted conservation program, releasing frogs in the Tamworth waterways.
Posted inAgriculture
Slopes and Plains farmland nearly tripled in price in 2023
The price for farmland in the North West Slopes and Plains increased 178% – or nearly tripled – just last year according to ABARES.
Posted inAgriculture
Food security at stake in supermarket inquiry
Australia will be unable to feed itself and farmers will be driven out of business unless radical action is taken to reform the supermarket retail sector, NSW Farmers has told a Senate Inquiry today.