Elizabeth Anderson

CONSULTATION on future mining regulations is expected to begin next month - albeit digitally, due to COVID-19 restrictions.

It can take months for rain to translate into money, and that doesn't cancel out the years of lost income.

FOUR years on from devastating floods that cost the horticulture industry an estimated $50-million, a grower group is urging local governments along the Adelaide Plains to finally invest in the $27m Virginia Floodway project.

RED lentils form a central role in the cropping rotation of Skeet and Phillipa Lawson, Pinnaroo, but it was searching for a suitable market that encouraged them to consider a more paddock-to-plate approach.

TWELVE months on from the proposed expansion of commercial kangaroo harvest areas and the idea is considered a success, even as the industry takes a hit from COVID-19.

CFS stalwart Murray Sherwell was among those in the Queen's Birthday honours, commended for "services to the Limestone Coast".

BUYERS and vendors welcomed the chance to return to the cattle market at the SA Livestock Exchange at Dublin after COVID-19 restrictions, with both crowd and livestock numbers up.

For Kapunda giftware business Tiny Nest, the impact of its inclusion in the Buy From the Bush campaign, shortly before Christmas, was instantaneous.

WINE and cheese are a classic pairing, particularly in the Barossa Valley, with the Nietschke family at Moppa not just supplying milk for cheese production, but also growing top-end grapes for premium wine.

WHILE some are calling this the best start to the season in years, those working to support drought-affected farmers across the state say they are as busy as ever.