Ag Excellence News and Updates

Nelshaby Ag Bureau on the Road: Confinement Feeding in Action

February 9, 2026

Congratulations to the Nelshaby Ag Bureau on the success of their Stock Bus Trip held on Friday, 6 February. Thirty livestock producers toured four enterprises across Wandearah and Belalie East, all linked by a common theme of feeding livestock in confinement systems.

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Upcoming Carbon Farming Webinar Series

February 8, 2026

The Limestone Coast Landscape Board with Landscape Boards across South Australia are delivering free, state-wide Carbon Farming Webinar Series to help farmers and land managers better understand carbon farming and options to reduce on farm emissions.

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SA Grain Industry Awards honour outstanding leaders

February 4, 2026

The state’s top grain producers and industry leaders have been honoured at the 2025 South Australian
Grain Industry Awards, with the announcement of award winners and new Hall of Fame inductees at
Adelaide Oval last night.

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A centralised calendar for primary industries events across South Australia

February 2, 2026

Ag Excellence Alliance hosts South Australia’s centralised events calendar dedicated to primary production industries, providing a single, reliable location to discover what’s happening across the state.

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Building Drought Resilience Across South Australia – SA Drought Hub – Year 4 Achievements (2024–25)

January 25, 2026

The South Australian Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (SA Drought Hub) is proud to release its Year 4 Achievements Summary (1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025), alongside the 2024/25 SA Drought Hub Annual Report.

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LAST CHANCE to secure tickets for the South Australian Grain Industry Awards

January 19, 2026

Grain Producers SA is urging growers and industry to get in quick, with tickets for the 2025 South Australian Grain Industry Awards close to selling out ahead of the event at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday, 3 February 2026

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Empowering the leaders who strengthen South Australia’s farming systems 

December 23, 2025

Across South Australia, grower groups are central to helping farmers navigate seasonal variability, adopt new practices, and stay connected with the latest research. Behind many of these groups is an Executive Officer (EO), managing the governance, coordination, communication, research, and extension. When these EOs are well supported, the impact ripples far beyond the organisation and directly to farmers and their communities.

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Practical M&E for grower groups: insights from the EO Network

December 15, 2025

The Ag Ex EO Network recently hosted a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) session with Denise Bewsell of Scarlatti and Enablers of Change. It focused on how groups can collect meaningful data without creating unnecessary work, and how M&E can improve program design and decision-making. Below are the key takeaways I found most useful, that I think will resonate with grower groups.

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Using AI to strengthen extension outcomes

December 11, 2025

As the Ag Ex and SA Drought Hub MEL Officer, most of my work centres around gathering data and stories from Hub partners across the state, so we can better understand practice change, adoption, and what projects are making a real difference.

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Top of the Crop: Impressive list of finalists announced for SA Grain Industry Awards

December 11, 2025

An outstanding group of growers and industry innovators driving South Australia’s grain sector forward have been named as finalists for the 2025 South Australian Grain Industry Awards, announced today as early bird tickets go on sale.

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