OLD Time Rock ‘n’ Roll/country singer Derani is returning for the first time this year to the Yorke Peninsula Veterans and Community Centre, Kadina, on Sunday, August 5.

ADAPTING farming practices and seizing opportunities to make the most of water are the keys to improved profitability, according to Hoyleton farmer Tom Robinson.

RESEARCHERS are seeking grain growers and advisers to provide samples of diseases detected in this year’s pulse crops.

LIFTING crop performance by soil pH mapping to incorporate variable rate lime applications has been a recent focus of Yorke Peninsula agronomist Sam Trengove at his family’s 2350-hectare property near Bute.

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YP AG believes with the continued increase of annual ryegrass resistance to Group A herbicides, there is no time for complacency.

LANDOWNERS across Aust­ralia have gained an advantage in the fight against pest rabbits through the combination of two biological controls.

USING yellow spot samples from Australia, the USA and Canada, researchers have se­quenced the genome (complete DNA set) of a new fungal isolate to help better understand yellow spot disease in wheat crops.

NOMINATIONS have opened for the Rabobank Leadership Awards recognising outstanding individual achievement in, and contribution to, Australia and New Zealand’s food, beverage and agribusiness industries.

GRAIN growers are being asked whether they have noticed a chemical control failure or suspect insecticide resistance in redlegged earth mite and lucerne flea.

DISTRIBUTION days for the coordinated fox baiting program will be held at Yorke­town and Maitland in September.