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North West Farmer Our focus is on news and innovation in farming and related industries.

North West Farmer intends to deliver relevant, engaging, localised and innovative farming news from across the Sunraysia, Swan Hill and Gannawarra regions of North West Victoria.

06/01/2025

RUNNING into an erratic harvest season – including across Northwest Victoria – the Tractor and Machinery Association has reported November has been another difficult month for tractor sales. TMA executive director Gary Northover...

05/01/2025

MILDURA-based Citrus Australia have said driverless spray rigs, retrofitted autonomous tractors and self-propelled picking platforms are set to be some of the in-field attractions at the the peek body's congress event from March 18 to...

03/01/2025

MARCUS Muller was a builder who for a few years now has been working hard to build himself a new career – on the land. And he’s made that a spectacularly public statement with his amazing photo of his son Logan sitting on the fence of sheep yards...

03/01/2025

THE danger of overhead power lines has been doubled as we head into the depths of the 2024-25 fire season. Particularly as farming machinery gets larger, increasing the risk of contact with overhead powerlines. Electricity can even arc from a live...

03/01/2025

ELDERS Victoria/Riverina stud stock manager Ross Milne is upbeat about the 2025 ram selling market after Mallee studs outperformed during the 2024 spring ram sale season. He said the industry “has been in its ram selling season since...

25/11/2024

People are pretty pragmatic out in the pastoral country. It’s big country which can have big problems – but also big rewards. Where no day, season or year is ever the same. Right now at Wyndham Station, on the anabranch, north of Wentworth, it’s...

25/11/2024

MALLEE Sustainable Farming has been funded for a project to promote action to optimise or increase soil carbon in southwest NSW. Soil carbon is a hot topic in agriculture, but what does it really mean for farmers in low-rainfall areas such as...

Poh, Murray add almonds glitz.New Australian Almonds ambassador Poh Ling Yeow will add an element of glitz as the indust...
18/11/2024

Poh, Murray add almonds glitz.
New Australian Almonds ambassador Poh Ling Yeow will add an element of glitz as the industry pushes hard to increase its market share this year.
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18/11/2024

Typically, I use this platform to write gentle self-deprecating humour, and I try to be reasonably honest with our joys and challenges. Today I am going for shameless self-promotion. Sorry, but we are on a journey to build a legacy business of which...

19/10/2024

THIS year's Victorian harvest could be thrown into disarray as grain handlers at GrainCorp sites in NSW vote on whether to down tools over a pay dispute. Australian Workers’ Union said industrial action was at play after negotiations broke down...

19/10/2024

YOU can’t be too Grizzly when you are literally the cutting edge of the ag machinery business. Especially when that’s not just your opinion, or even the opinion of your clients (and it is), but is also the assessment of the wider...

19/10/2024

QUAMBATOOK grain and livestock farmer Brett Hosking has thrown his hat into the ring for president of the Victorian Farmers Federation. A former vice president of the peak farm body and respected agriculture leader and advocate, Mr...

Voting for the cover of the North West Farmer Calendar has started! Vote now for the best photo to receive the coveted c...
17/10/2024

Voting for the cover of the North West Farmer Calendar has started!

Vote now for the best photo to receive the coveted cover page.

Each monthly winner has the chance to have their photo as the cover of the NWF Calendar 2025.

Link to voting: northwestfarmer.com.au/nwf-calendar-voting

19/08/2024

MILDURA based beekeeper and broker Trevor Monson has called for calm following this week’s detection of varroa mite in Victoria for the first time. Mr Monson said varroa was found in one hive out of a group of 1500 hives on an isolated property at...

19/08/2024

OBITUARYMalcolm Gallasch, First Mildura Irrigation Trust engineer/managerBorn September 22,1932 – died June 22, 2024By former irrigator Richard EvansAFTER the recent passing of Malcolm Gallasch, it is now time to reflect on and recognise his...

19/08/2024

Hundreds, probably thousands, and certainly generations, of irrigators across Sunraysia and into SA's Riverland are very successful at what they do, because of one man in particular. Richard Wells, a Merbein irrigator for 52 years, says Malcolm...

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