Paula Thompson
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Sharon Starick's rise from Barossa Valley roots to grain industry leader (opens the original)
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Growing up on a vineyard in the Barossa Valley, a career in agriculture was not necessarily an inevitable path for Murraylands farmer and GRDC chairperson Sharon Starick; in fact it was one she was actively encouraged against. "I always had an excitement around agriculture and knew it was where I wanted to be," she said. "But I actually had a number of teachers tell me agriculture wasn't going anywhere, go and do something different." So, Ms Starick started studying a science degree after high s
Celebrating the huge contribution of Dr Kath Cooper to triticale breeding (opens the original)
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Plant breeder Dr Kath Cooper recently retired after 43 years of developing triticale varieties and sadly passed away shortly after, aged 72. Dr Cooper made a significant contribution to grain production and the profitability of farming nationwide. She arrived in Australia, from the UK via Canada, in January 1982 on a two-year temporary work visa. Her work project, undertaken at the University of Adelaide Waite Institute, was to make new triticale germplasm to be used to improve the drought toler
Sixth-generation Yorkes farmer passionate about agriculture and advocacy (opens the original)
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Sixth-generation Yorke Peninsula farmer Matthew Cadd is passionate about agriculture and advocacy. Mr Cadd is a South Australian finalist in the Australian Agriculture Awards Nutrien NextGen Leader category. His family has farmed at Agery on the YP since the late 1800s. "Being a farm kid, I always wanted to get out in the paddock and jump on the tractor," Matthew said. "When I got to the end of high school I thought this is something I want to do as a career." Having always had an interest in sc
Merino ewe hoggets from Lucernbrae make great price at Mount Pleasant sale (opens the original)
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Prices generally remained solid at the Mount Pleasant market on Thursday last week, with some slight contractions on mutton and store lamb returns. Nutrien Fawcett Livestock auctioneer Ashley Fawcett said Lucernbrae Props, Callington, made the top price for sheep with Merino ewe hoggets at $356. "They were a tidy line of ewes that sold really well and went back to breeders," he said. "We also had good fresh sucker lambs in, which presented well and sold well. "On the cattle side of things, we ha
Flashback Friday goes back to July 2013 when big bucks went on malt barley (opens the original)
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This week's Flashback Friday takes readers back to July 2013, when significant funding was going towards malt barley research. More than $2.9 million was being spent on improving malting barley varieties through a joint project of Adelaide University, Viterra, Carlsberg and the University of Western Australia. A major focus of the project was producing barley varieties that helped address growing energy and water costs that maltsters and brewers faced when converting barley to beer. Meanwhile, S
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