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Seeding stalls as wait for rain starts

9:00 AM | IT IS a case of 'too wet for dry seeding and too dry for wet seeding' for many croppers across the State, where work has ground to a halt in the past week.

Grains and Cropping - General

Producers 'dodge' SA Water

8:30 AM | A 48 per cent rise in the cost of mains water over two years is forcing Meningie farmers to fork out big money for new water sources.

Agribusiness and General - General

Have your say on grain funding plan

16 May 12 | Grain growers and industry associations will be able to have their say on how a new voluntary fund for South Australia’s grains industry should be spent.

Grains and Cropping - General

Bolton Girls' big Beef success

16 May 12 | THERE'S a new paddock being set up at Bolton Girls Red Angus stud at Congupna, Victoria - the interbreed champion pen.

Livestock - Cattle

Clare Valley winery wins top bottle

16 May 12 | Family-owned Taylors Wines has triumphed overnight winning Australia’s Best Wine Bottle for the dynamic, standout design of its 2010 Taylors Winemaker’s Project GSM bottle at Australia’s Wine Industry Design Competition 2012, the nation’s top competition for bottle and label design.

Viticulture - General

Secret soil cracks linger, despite surface sealing

16 May 12 | Deep cracks in soil can remain open underground even after they have visibly sealed on the surface, a new study has found.

Grains and Cropping - General

Merger expands farming options

16 May 12 | TWO prominent John Deere dealers - Pringles Ag Plus and Crouch Rural - have announced a merger agreement, creating one of South Australia's largest suppliers of advanced farming solutions.

Machinery and Equipment - Machinery

Doctors seek urgent answers on 'budget sleepers'

15 May 12 | The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) is “very concerned” about additional cuts announced in last week’s federal budget and is seeking urgent clarification from the Federal Government on them.

Agribusiness and General - General

SA roadmap for unconventional gas

15 May 12 | MINISTER for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis has released a draft road map aimed at maximising the potential of South Australia’s unconventional gas resources in an environmentally sustainable way.

Agribusiness and General - General

Patchy start to sowing season in SA

15 May 12 | SOUTH Australia's field crops need more opening rain to kick the season off, with a patchy and extremely variable start so far, according to PIRSA’s latest Crop and Pasture Report.

Grains and Cropping - General

$A relief may be short-lived

15 May 12 | Exporters and manufacturers were buoyed yesterday when the dollar dropped below parity with the US currency but were warned by the deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Philip Lowe, that it was not the start of a permanent downwards move in the currency.

Agribusiness and General - Finance

New MateSel helps avoid inbreeding

15 May 12 | BREEDING better livestock is always a balance between joining the best male with the best female, while avoiding inbreeding. The release of a revised version of MateSel aims to resolve this challenge for beef cattle breeders.

Livestock - Cattle

Rethink commodity group funding: NFF

15 May 12 | THE agriculture industry must consider whether levies collected for research and development should be redistributed to commodity organisations to ensure they are well-resourced, says the National Farmers Federation. |

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Agribusiness and General - General

Hassad buys up big in SA-Vic border region

15 May 12 | THE sale of 40,000 hectares of grazing land on the South Australian-Victorian border to Qatar-owned Hassad Australia has sparked mixed reaction. |

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Property - General

Opinion - Comment

Fleur toasts bush storyteller prose

13 May 12 | FOR many rural women, days are consumed raising a family and helping on the farm but Fleur McDonald has squeezed-in one more role as a successful author.

Niche - General