Anthony Bauer of Bauer’s Organic Farms (right), shows Guy Lewington of Mt Sylvia Diatomite, the impact palagonite is having on his new ginger crop in the Lockyer Valley. A trial strip of two rows was spread with compost that included palagonite. DIRECTORS at Mt Sylvia Diatomite are enthused from the encouraging results of a recent palagonite trial in a ginger plot at …. more
Sunshine Coast Hinterland Feijoa farmers, Peter Heineger and Sally Hookey. Acres Australia continues to follow the progress of Queensland’s Belli Park, feijoa farmers, Sally Hookey and Peter Heineger of Hinterland Feijoas, since their initial orchard planting in 2008, through to their first commercial feijoa fruit harvest in 2011, continuing on to the development of their value-added lines in 2012. …. more
The Institute for Agriculture and the Environment research team includes Dr Geoff Slaughter, pictured above, and Professor Julie Cotter. A UNIVERSITY of Southern Queensland (USQ) research team has secured Federal Government funding to examine what makes a farm business successful. The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) funding will go towards the Understanding Australian …. more
WITH the autumn season upon us it is time for farmers to seriously consider whether their traditional fertiliser regimes have really been working for them. Farmers have only recently begun appreciating the integral role of sulphur in their farm’s nutrient makeup. Sulphur is a vitally important component to form amino acids in crops and pastures …. more
The JPH4 – JPH seeders can also be adapted to some tilling machinery to enable working the soil and seeding in one pass. SUPERIOR seeders are now being sourced by Fix Engineering from Jang Automation, a South Korean company. The company is producing roller types that are able to seed from very small seeds to …. more
VINEYARDS use approximately fifty per cent of all agricultural posts in Australia with the majority of pine posts used in agriculture being treated with copper-chromium-arsenic (CCA) timber preservative. For many years CCA was treated as relatively benign and its use was widespread. Most people knew that it should not be burnt, and if it was the …. more
