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Rural News

Supporting grassroots

Saputo gives back to Timboon.

By Dairy News Australia

Finding what's under the back paddock

Let’s talk potholes

Country News wants to hear about your run-ins with northern Victoria’s crumbling highways.

By Country News

Finding what's under the back paddock

Let’s talk potholes

Potholes costing drivers thousands

Northern Victoria’s highways are deteriorating, leaving industry and community to bear the cost.

By Nicholas Spandler

Potholes costing drivers thousands

Water

Low water allocations forecast

River Peoples’ Forum packed

Data centres raise water questions

‘What We Heard” basin report is out

Dairy

Nathalia judge in national competition

A young Nathalia woman is a finalist in a national agricultural judging competition.

Lactalis fined over milk label

Lactalis Australia has paid $59,400 in penalties after the ACCC issued it with three...

Safe Food Victoria kicks into gear

A new era for Victoria’s food safety begins.

By Nicholas Spandler

Champions crowned at Winter Fair

It was a new-look Winter Fair for 2026 with International Dairy Week director Declan Patten...

By Sophie Baldwin

Cropping

Australian cotton grower of the year finalists announced

Five cotton growers from across NSW and Queensland have been named finalists for the 2026 Bayer Cotton Grower of the Year and the AgriRisk High Achiever of the Year awards, to be announced at the Australian Cotton Conference on the Gold Coast in August.

By Country News

Cotton researchers of the year

BASF commissions fermentation plant for crop protection products

BASF Agricultural Solutions has successfully commissioned its BioHub, a new fermentation plant for biological and...

By Country News

Cotton researchers of the year

BASF commissions fermentation plant for crop protection products

Nitrogen helps feed the world – and why supply chains matter

By Dr Alison Bentley, deputy director of the Agriculture and Food research unit at CSIRO...

By Country News

Nitrogen helps feed the world – and why supply chains matter

Horticulture

How do we grow more fruit and less wood?

By Ken Breen, Jill Stanley, Tiff Da Silva, Shona Seymour and Roberta De Bei

By Country News

Everyone loves butterflies as they flutter by – unless you also grow cabbages

Most Tree Crop readers are more interested in moths.

By Sophie Baldwin

Why mode of action matters in snail and slug control

One of the more overlooked challenges in Australian horticulture is not necessarily the presence of...

By Country News

Investment in future paying dividends for Costa fruit

There can be a few challenges over four generations of fruit growing.

By Country News

Livestock

Halter launches new support tool

Halter is branching out from just virtual fencing, with new farm management tools.

By Nicholas Spandler

Why roughage is needed over winter

Lambing season in Arcadia

The Daldy family has experienced a rush of twin lambs on their small Arcadia property...

Why roughage is needed over winter

Lambing season in Arcadia

Winter worms in sheep

Worms thrive in winter, posing risks to nutritionally stressed sheep on short pastures.

Winter worms in sheep

Machinery & Products

Machinery and Products

McHale round baler

Star shaped feed rotors ensure grass flow into the bale chamber

By Dairy News Australia

Machinery and Products

Helping farmers get ripped

Deep ripping equipment manufactured in the Czech Republic is boosting productivity on farms in Australia...

By Jeanette Severs

Machinery and Products

Control is in farmers’ hands

The KUHN configurator has proven its value in the field with Victorian farmer Jock Buttigieg...

By Dairy News Australia

Machinery and Products

New product is a ‘game-changer’

Farmers are always on the look-out for solutions to boost business efficiency and productivity, and...

By Dairy News Australia

Animal Health

Tech makes joining easier

Winning the battle against flies on dairy farms

Hoofing it for healthy feet

Hoofing it for healthy feet

Up to 20 per cent of a milking herd is lame, and it’s important to...

By Jeanette Severs