Agriculture Today - July 2011 edition
Below is a selection of articles from the July 2011 edition of Agriculture Today.
Review the Top 20 from the AgToday online archives (480Kb PDF)
Main stories
- Waste Not Want Not - hunger relief model rolls
- Direct rice seeding here needs no paddies
- A cancer treatment from a gourd?
- Sticky dough enzyme cuts wheat premiums
- Belgenny invites Powerhouse
- Sub clover root rot and mouse damage
- Farmers slash emissions by 64%
- Carbon smarties cut output and reduce costs
- Climate dogs round up simple explanations of weather
- Hawkesbury Harvest model keeps expanding
- SatNav to track sheep’s snacks
- Pasture quality for livestock at Mudgee field days
- Aspect, aspect, aspect – critical to pasture and fertiliser
- Alternative fertilisers show potential but require caution
- New varieties keep clover disease in check
- Grazing management improves weight gain
- Female focus at Mudgee beef cattle lectures
- Use the bull sale catalogue to advantage
- Solar pumps the drinks to extra paddocks
- Hormonal growth promotants – friend or foe?
- Storage rebuild carves evaporation losses
- Swappers make water use efficiency gains
- Groundwater rose and salt was exported in wet year
- Perennial plants restore watercourse balance
- Sydney Basin farmers take up irrigation workshops
Regular columns
- ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE - REBECCA LINES-KELLYStates move to protect agricultural land for food production
- MINISTER'S MESSAGE - KATRINA HODGKINSONAustralia’s first soil carbon trading pilot
- WHAT IN THE HEAVENS - MICHAEL CASHENEast coast lows - they're unpredictable feral cats
- BEYOND THE KITCHEN TABLE - SONIA MUIRStart digging for treasure
- PLANT BANTER - NIGEL PHILLIPSHow to get free nitrogen
- BEEF CUTS - ALASTAIR RAYNERNational Vendor Declarations are an essential part of quality assurance
