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Compliance checks underway: Think before you spray

DEPARTMENT of Primary Industries and Regions will be completing compliance checks to make sure primary producers are not using poor spraying practices. The compliance checks are to ensure there is no deliberate or negligent use of chemicals. PIRS...

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10 Dec 2024

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New GPA board director

GRAIN Producers Australia has welcomed a new independent board director with a background in sustainable development and industry innovation, Cindy Cassidy. Ms Cassidy is currently the director of the Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption and...

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10 Dec 2024

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Federal funding for farm emissions calculators

ALMOST $7 million has been allocated by the Fed eral Government to develop standardised greenhouse gas emissions calculators for primary producers. Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said the initiative aimed to improve emissions-accounting...

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10 Dec 2024

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Harvest update

DELIVERIES to Viterra’s South Australian facilities reached 200,000 tonnes in the last week of November, and two million tonnes in the 2024-25 harvest so far. Wheat continued to make up more than half of the tonnes delivered, followed by canol...

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10 Dec 2024

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SYP wrestles invasive silverleaf nightshade

SOUTHERN Yorke Peninsula landholders are urged to help control the invasive weed, silverleaf nightshade. Northern and Yorke Land scape Board landscape officer Nick Nicholls said a joint effort was needed to prevent its spread to clean areas...

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10 Dec 2024

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Drought package a welcome first step

GRAIN Producers SA has welcomed the South Australian Govern ment’s $18 million drought package (announced November 26) as a positive first step, but says more support is needed. The package includes $8.1 million in new initiatives: on-farm drought...

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03 Dec 2024