THE Ag Excellence Alliance and PIRSA hosted the Stepping into Leadership program graduation at the Hackney Hotel in Adelaide on Thursday last week.

Clay spreading and delving has transforming thousands of acres of sandy soils in the Upper South East over the past decade or two into productive paddocks.

Government extends social welfare support for struggling farm families

Thomas Foods International chief executive officer Darren Thomas has compared the devastating Murray Bridge abattoir fire to an elite athlete falling down in an Olympic hurdles final after years of training.

Farmers cannot control the weather but Yorke Peninsula-based ag consultant Leighton Wilksch says they can receive more reliable forecasts for their farms.

Regional SA could receive an economic boost of $1 billion and 1000 extra jobs in the next two years if a predicted tourist influx comes to fruition.

Mt Eba Station owner Peter Whittlesea believes desalination will enable them to utilise more areas of the station with saline water and improve the water quality in their holding yards.

A NEW business coaching program is making farmers more accountable in their decision-making, and while that sounds unappealing to many, it also boasts an average 5.7 per cent return on assets for participants.

Lambing percentages are tipped to vary widely in flocks across the state, based largely on the amount of supplementary feeding producers have undertaken.