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Business Management, 22 May 2025
Family enterprise grows with new energy and ideas
With succession on the cards, the Joneses reflect on practices that have improved soils and yields over the past three decades
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Business Management, 21 May 2025
Succession a time to reflect on progress
Jodie and Jeff Jones borrowed a header for their first harvest. Two decades on, with succession plans underway, they are using their drones for weed control
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Business Management, 19 May 2025
A full wellbeing ‘silo’ key to mental health
Psychologist and grain grower Steph Schmidt has practical strategies for dealing with stress and maintaining mental wellbeing even when times are tough
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Business Management, 11 May 2025
Time travel an unexpected study tour bonus
A GRDC study tour for grain growers and advisers to WeedSmart Week on the Eyre Peninsula provided opportunities to build social networks while learning how to improve weed control.
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Business Management, 24 Apr 2025
Business structure helps map the succession path
Judy Wilkinson draws on a wealth of personal and professional experience to guide people through the often-problematic farm succession process.
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Business Management, 23 Apr 2025
Talk early and often
Rutherglen grain grower Andrew ‘Russ’ Russell provides an insight into his succession experience and the lessons he has learnt along the way
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Business Management, 02 Apr 2025
Study tour unveils new perspectives
A GRDC study tour for grain growers and advisers to WeedSmart Week on the Eyre Peninsula provided opportunities to build social networks while learning how to improve productivity and efficiencies in farming systems and improve weed control.
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Business Management, 27 Feb 2025
Building resilience in a mixed farming business
As we confront changes in climate, resilience of production systems and farm businesses is becoming imperative. A case study of a Great Southern mixed farming business in Western Australia illustrates some of the components of a resilient production and business that can be considered.
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Business Management, 31 Oct 2024
RiskWi$e headed west to talk through results and goals
The RiskWi$e team travelled to Western Australia in July, bringing together grower groups and researchers from across Australia to talk about goals for this new initiative. The WA grower groups partnering with GGA were excited about the participatory approach to RiskWise. Those groups are Stirlings to Coast Farmers, South-East Premium Wheat Growers Association, Facey Group, Corrigin Farm Improvement Group, Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association, Liebe Group, West Midlands Group and Mingenew Irwin Group. They have chosen to research nitrogen decisions, sowing decisions and machinery investment decisions.
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Business Management, 03 Jun 2024
From desktop planning to paddock action
An interactive web application that allows growers to virtually test and optimise operational plans is being adapted for Australian conditions