Archive for August, 2011
August 31st, 2011 | 
Author: NATIONAL Landcare Week (September 5-10) will celebrate 25 years of Landcare in Australia.
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MICROSOFT Excel may be one of the most useful tools on Fraser Pogue’s grain farm.
DESPITE Deborah Corrigan’s success in the vegetable industry, she recalls a time when she wasn’t allowed near the family farm.
OVER the past two weeks Jill and Harry have been discussing the place of benchmarking and business ratios.
LIKE any farmer, Daniel Coulthard knows better than to speculate on the likelihood of an early finish to harvest.
BRIAN Read was surprised to find shovels full of earthworms on his farm when digging for dung beetles.
KARIN Flynn was in her early 20s when she first saw an alpaca.
FARMERS will find reducing nitrous oxide emissions easier than building up soil carbon levels.
WHEN Anthony Barber bought the 6188ha estate known as Coliban Park, near Metcalfe, in 1917, he had a silent partner.
FOCUSING on maternal traits are becoming more important in lamb production, writes EMMA FIELD