While grain growers are always taking a gamble by planting a crop and hoping for a good season. Some growers in the lower north are pushing the boundaries this year, by more than doubling their lentil plantings in the hope of getting better returns. Lower than normal grain prices have forced growers ...

Canola growers on lower Eyre Peninsula want to use a horticulture insecticide to stop grubs from eating their broadacre crops. A local farmer group has applied for an "emergency permit" to battle the devastating pest, diamondback moth grub, which is fast spreading in the region. Chair of the ...

Canola growers on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula want an emergency permit to use a horticulture insecticide to control the devastating diamondback moth grub....

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Man-made reefs in Spencer Gulf are increasing in numbers, and commercial prawn fishers are concerned for their own safety. The fishery has come out in support of the State Government's crackdown on illegal dumping at sea. Recently, fisheries officers caught a boat loaded with what appeared to be ...

Calling for celebratory, thoughtful, descriptive, creative works that engage with the human/avian relationship. Birds are everywhere. Even in the center of the cities, the white cockatoos call as they form silhouettes against blue sky; the rosellas squabble for fruit. And in the bush birds ...

Reporter Pip Courtney put together this snapshot of the 2010 Tom Quilty Gold Cup held in Manilla, New South Wales in June....

Reporter Pip Courtney put together this snapshot of the 2010 Tom Quilty Gold Cup held in Manilla, New South Wales, in June....

After a string of frustrating seasons Australian grain growers at last look to have at least the weather in their favour. While the job's not finished 'til the crop is harvested, some are quietly confident that timely spring rains could even produce a bin-buster. Tim Lee assesses this season's ...

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