Out in the cold: Frost and post-emergent herbicide application
Temperatures are continuing to drop across the state and frost events are imminent. Elders agronomist Logan Smith, who services the eastern wheatbelt of Western Australia,…
Cropping
Take five for farm safety week
It’s National Farm Safety week, so it’s the perfect time to reflect on ways to improve the safety of everyone on your farm. Farmsafe Australia’s…
Cattle, Corporate, Cropping, Horticulture, Sheep
Taking ag education by the horns
Helping children understand the role agriculture plays in sustainable communities is not an easy task. Surveys of students has shown that there is a disconnect…
Corporate
Eastern Cattle Market: Are we looking at more records this season?
“How high can this go?” This is the question on every livestock stakeholder’s mind this month as the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) reached 950s…
Cattle
Get prepared for stud ram season
Did you know that Elders are involved in 76 ram sales, from Esperance in the south, to Northampton in the Midwest? According to Tim Spicer,…
Sheep
Wool growers produce a hat trick of 1PP certified wool
Superfine Merino wool is in demand at the moment, and in Australia there is none finer than 1PP certified wool. Elders recently sold a remarkable…
Wool
Wool market defies predictions of carnage
Despite the predictions of carnage as some wool brokers swamped the showfloor and auction rooms with bales of wool, the market stood up rather well.…
Wool
Western Australia real estate market update
There is certainly an air of confidence throughout rural Western Australia. For the most part, crops and pastures are off to an excellent start. Widespread…
Real Estate
Treating spot form blotch in barley
In Australia spot form net blotch (SFNB) is the most common foliar disease of barley. In a season where rainfall is sufficient to grow a…
Agronomy
Water trading update – week ending 2 July 2021
“We are only two days into the new water season, so there is insufficient evidence to confidently estimate the current market price of temporary water in any…
