Despite the prolific spring, a surprisingly steady pace of business is being transacted. Demand for cereal hay remains slow. Most hay exporters have managed to piece together a full processing program ...

WHILE fodder markets have come off their highs set during the peak of the east coast drought of 2018-19, farmers throughout medium and low rainfall zones remain happy to retain pulse hay crops, in ...

Grain and cereal crops escaped the brunt of last week's wild weather in the Wimmera. The wind blew a third of Julie Weir's vetch hay crop at Birchip.(Tara De Landgrafft) The wild weather that whipped ...

Crown vetch is a perennial legume that spreads by strong fleshy rhizomes (underground root stalks). It has coarse, strongly branched stems 2-6 feet long and an extremely heavy multi-branched root ...

SOUTH Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) vetch breeder Rade Matic said vetch could have an important role in crop rotation, but it was important to choose the correct variety, and ...

Baling has begun in paddocks north of Hopetoun and B- double loads of oaten hay are making their way to hay exporters, as well as to dairy farms in Gippsland. All the hay being delivered at this stage ...

Organic cropping systems that utilize winter grown cereal–legume cover crop mixtures can increase plant available nitrogen (N) to a subsequent cash crop, but the rate of N release is uncertain due to ...

Researchers tested the effects of vetch residue management strategies incorporating green manure using a roller-crimper and different organic fertilizers on organic zucchini yield and quality. When ...

GREG McGurk lived out a farmer's worst nightmare when he found out 1700 of his vetch hay bales had gone up in smoke on Wednesday morning.