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Snails on Eyre Peninsula
By Dr Kym Perry, University of Adelaide 19 March 2025 What’s happening with snail populations this year? Extremely dry conditions over the past year have had one positive effect – snail populations have been kept in check by the weather. It’s likely that the lack of season-breaking rains in 2024 also limited snail breeding, which…
2 for one workshops! Managing magnesia patches and VRT phosphorus strategies
Don’t miss our free workshops next week, with an exciting double billing of Dr Chris McDonough, who will provide the tools to manage dry saline or ‘magnesia’ patches and Dr Sean Mason, who will demystify VRT and soil nutrition. At the Kimba and Minnipa workshops, Sean will explain how to work out an appropriate variable…
Sheep and Goat eID rebate now open
Under the South Australian rebate program, producers will receive a 50% rebate up to a cap of $0.95 (GST exclusive) on the purchase price of each 2023 year-of-birth eID tag. These tags are accredited by the National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) and purchased between 1 January and 31 December 2023. The new national system requires…
Farm safety workshops
https://ruraledgeaustralia.glueup.com/event/national-farm-safety-workshop-south-australia-online-67581/ https://ruraledgeaustralia.glueup.com/event/national-farm-safety-workshop-south-australia-online-67583/ The workshop will be based on Federal legislation and will contain information about the nuances of each individual state’s legislation. The workshops are tailored to the four largest agricultural industries in Australia: Broadacre, Horticulture, Viticulture and Livestock. The program will be targeted at farm business owners and will result in the development…
New podcast connects generations of EP farmers
Eyre Peninsula farmers are encouraged to tune-in this harvest as AIR EP’s new podcast, EP Ag Chats, covers ‘the good bits, the bad bits, and everything in between’. The six-episode podcast features conversations between farmers from all over the EP, with young farmers interviewing their more experienced counterparts. From technology and machinery to gross margins…
AIR EP Newsletter – 11 Nov 2022
Yield Prophet Reports The Resilient EP project aims to bring together on-farm technology to enhance decision making, profitability and reduce risk. Stored moisture, yield potential and risk are 3 main focal points of the project. Within this Yield Prophet(R) is used to understand and demonstrate the factors that drive yield potential, the yield gap and…