Ag Excellence News and Updates

Online Farm Trials team hits the road

January 30, 2015

The Online Farm Trials (OFT) team were on the road in the lead up to Christmas, presenting the project and taking feedback from grower groups and researchers. The Ag…

Scholarships on offer to broaden students’ horizons

January 16, 2015

Students entering an agriculture-related course in 2015 have the opportunity to apply for a Horizon Scholarship – but they need to do so by January 30. The Horizon Scholarship…

Ag Excellence Stock journal page December 2014

December 19, 2014

Ag Excellence Stock journal page December 2014

Applications for the 2015 Ag Excellence Sustainable Farming Award now open

December 19, 2014

The Ag Excellence Sustainable Farming Awards are open to any farmer driven grower group in SA that can demonstrate that they meet and exceed the criteria of the awards.…

Making More from Sheep co-funding opportunities available now

December 18, 2014

Making More from Sheep (MMfS) delivers awareness, learning and supported adoption opportunities to lamb and wool producers to improve the productivity, profitability and resilience of their business. Phase II…

“Smartphone Apps for Smart Farmers v2” now available

December 9, 2014

Producers who want a hand sorting the wheat from the chaff when it comes to finding useful farming apps have a new guide: the second edition of Ag Excellence…

Ag Excellence Stock journal page – November 2014

November 24, 2014

Ag Excellence Stock journal page November 2014

New song encourages farmers to make a ‘carbon resolution’

November 21, 2014

Ardrossan singing farmer and adviser Bill Long launched a new parody song on YouTube today, Carbon Resolution, designed to encourage farmers to consider how greenhouse gas emissions and global…

Ag Excellence October Stock journal page

October 17, 2014

Ag Excellence October 2014 Stock journal page

GRDC conference support applications close October 29

October 2, 2014

The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) is recognised around the globe for its investment in pioneering grains-related research, development and extension. What it is perhaps less widely known…