School vegetable gardens, agricultural programs, mental health programs and learning resources at schools across regional and rural Australia will receive a boost thanks to funding through the 2022 CRT Primary Schools Program. The inaugural program will see Primary School Parents and Friends Associations (P&Fs) share in $50,000. CRT General Manager Greg O’Neil says they are...Read More

Leigh Stoddart & Co and the Crop Science division of Bayer have donated $1,000 to the Dunedoo Sports Club annual ‘Tunes on the Turf’ Music Festival through the iGiveLocal Community Support Program. Now in its fourth year, the iGiveLocal Program has to date donated over $100,000 to more than 190 local causes around the country....Read More

The Rural Centre and the Crop Science division of Bayer have donated $1,000 to Molong United Hospital through the iGiveLocal Community Support Program. Now in its fourth year, the iGiveLocal Program has to date donated over $100,000 to more than 190 local causes around the country. The cheque was proudly presented to the to Molong...Read More

CRT Member, GK & LH Rohr Gilgandra are jumping for joy after taking home a brand new Toyota Hilux SR5 utility at the recent 2019 CRT Conference in Adelaide. In front of thousands of delegates, Patrick Riley from GK & LH Rohr successfully chose the winning key at the conference’s black tie gala dinner in...Read More

EXCELLENT crop safety and related early growth and vigour, culminating in the highest yield in a farmer demonstration trial, has convinced Brenton Clarke, Primaries Esperance, of the benefits of the new selective pre-emergent herbicide for canola growers, Devrinol-C. “We know it’s safer (than other standards) and we’re encouraging growers to give it a go this...Read More

It’s ten years since deregulation of wheat exports in Australia. At the time, there were plenty of doom-mongers predicting the end times were about to come to Australian grain growers. In this article we look to see what has occurred to pricing in the past two decades. The sky hasn’t fallen in, the crops are...Read More

As farmers, the use of chemical drums is part of everyday life. The days of being able to just dump them into landfill are long gone. CRT encourages the responsible disposal of all chemical containers so that we all have a sustainable industry long into the future. The drumMUSTER service is a great way to...Read More

Accidents involving side by side vehicles and quad bikes are one of the leading causes of fatality on farms in Australia. Side by side vehicle and quad bike related fatalities are often due to the vehicle rolling onto the passenger or the passenger being ejected from the vehicle in a crash. According to Farm Safe...Read More

Farm planner, a free, easy-to-use, Vaccination, Scheduling Tool for Sheep and Cattle. Farm Planner is a web application that lets you register your farm and livestock details and management practices; then based on the information provided, the system records and recommends important dates and times to assist you in farm planning. The Farm Planner has...Read More

Year on year auction volumes were up by 2.4% in 2017- 2018 while AWTA core test volumes were up by 1% (farm bales). Superficially these small changes in total greasy wool supply indicate that supply is unlikely to be a significant factor in the current market. Apparel wool has a wide range of end uses...Read More