Agriculture Today - August 2012 edition
Below is a selection of articles from the August 2012 edition of Agriculture Today.
Review the Top 20 from the AgToday online archives (480Kb PDF)
Main stories
- New EMAI biosecurity laboratories ready for anything
- Big chill, a blower and mature flies
- New olive varieties found less susceptible to anthracnose
- AgQuip aphids in alcohol
- Court bites tiger snake man
- Seeking the key to cheap ethanol
- Goats on the go
- Expect dual purpose cereal trials to do well
- What! Hearing loss costs how much?
- Healthy farm dams on the rise
- What’s the effect of declining prices?
- Dorper dung DNA helps develop strategies
- New national OJD management plan
- Are all your animals fit to load?
- Feed to ensure lamb survival this spring
- Old school tool can lift lamb numbers
- Seed contamination cutting lamb returns
- Chasing two new Basin invaders
- Keeping cabomba out of Great Lakes
- Confusion over fleabane species
- Windmill grass research yields a breakthrough
- Limited success with bio-control
- Hopes for gall mite to sweep away broom
- Tropical pastures valuable at Merriwa
- Cattle drench resistance is becoming an issue
- The first organic pioneer awarded
- Studying the effects of nitrogen
- DPI scientist joins biochar panel
- Testing for microbial activity in your soils
Regular columns
- ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE - REBECCA LINES-KELLYSoil security underpins our secure food future
- MINISTER'S MESSAGE - KATRINA HODGKINSONNew world-class biosecurity centre
- WHAT IN THE HEAVENS - AARON COUTTS-SMITHEl Nino and drought don’t always go hand in hand
- BEYOND THE KITCHEN TABLE - SONIA MUIRDeclutter, come online
- BEEF CUTS - BRIAN CUMMINGA new “breed” doesn’t just emerge overnight
