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Alison Paterson

DAF principal research scientist Dr Richard Sequeira was one of a number of experts who spoke about tools growers could use in the fight to manage fall armyowrm. Picture: Alison Paterson

Ag experts and scientists met to discuss FAW solutions

Moth scent a cost-effective tool for growers in battle with fall army worm

Sally Gall

Weighing cattle in the paddock is giving useful insights.

Walk over weighing giving 'powerful results'

Climate Mate Elsie Dodd speaking at the Maranoa Ag Innovation expo at Roma. Picture: Sally Gall

Climate Mate Elsie Dodd urges producers to seek out reliable climate sources.

Weather forecasters don't get it as wrong as we think

Judith Maizey

Mark Baker of MB Agriculture in his sorghum crop. Picture: supplied

Orion grain grower Mark Baker took a chance on the weather, preferring to take the advice of "his weather bloke" rather than the BOM to plant all his country - all 7689 hectares - to summer crops.

Ignoring BOM's advice pays off for dryland farmer

Ben Harden

Central Queensland grain grower Jono Armstrong, with his dog, Texas, and the pile of wheat he was accidentally scooped up with. PIcture: Ben Harden 

Read how a Border Collie miraculously survived the 470km journey between Comet and Roma as a stowaway inside a grain trailer carrying 26 tonnes of wheat.

Stowaway dog survives 470km road trip in grain trailer

Bar H Grazing team members from Comet, Jessie Macqueen and Sarah Eagle.

Inaugural ag innovation expo a success at Roma.

Ag innovation on show at Roma

Steph Allen

Ray Vella with one of his in-calf heifers, fresh off the truck at Breadalbane Plains. Picture: Steph Allen

Ray Vella has big plans for the 725-strong NCC herd purchased last month.

Vella's plan for NCC herd purchase

Mossman's cane growers could walk away from generations worth of cane experience if the mill's liquidation proceeds.

'We'll just walk away and let the rats and pigs take over': Growers' heartache as mill hangs in the balance

Mossman petition gains support as growers prepare to leave industry

Cassowary Coast cattle producer Adrian Azzopardi alongside his son, Jacko, and their Kelpie Chase, with their Droughtmaster cattle on their property near Kurrimine. Picture supplied by Bay Hill Beef 

As a son of a Malta immigrant who started in the north Queensland agriculture industry as a cane cutter, Adrian Azzopardi is focused on building up his family's sugar and Bay Hill Beef enterprise near Kurrimine.

From cane to beef cattle for far North Queensland producer

Anyone for cotton? Ellie Parkinson with her two-year-old, William, in the cotton crop at Marathon. Picture: Judith Maizey

Waterlogging early in the season led to fruit loss and a loss of nitrogen in the McCosker's cotton crop at Emerald, but they're still hoping for a similar yield to last season,

Waterlogging made for a tough start to the cotton season for Emerald growers

Mark Phelps

NOLAN Meats celebrated 60 years&nbsp;of operation in Gympie with several thousand racegoers at the Gympie Races. The Nolan Muster&nbsp;cup went to Fasta Than Lightening, a eight year old gelding raced by father and son team Glen and Nathan Abbott from Ipswich.&nbsp;Fasta Than Lightening was trained by Pat Duff, Toowoomba, and ridden by Miki Nakao.

NOLAN MUSTER CUP WINNER: Eight year old gelding Fasta Than Lightening with jockey Miki Nakao, Cedric Duff, owners Glen Abbott and his son Nathan, trainer Pat Duff, sponsor Terry Nolan, and Gympie Turf Club president Shane Gill. 

NOLAN Meats celebrated 60 years&nbsp;of operation in Gympie with several thousand racegoers at the Gympie Races.

The Nolan Muster&nbsp;cup went to Fasta Than Lightening, a eight year old gelding raced by father and son team Glen and Nathan Abbott from Ipswich.&nbsp;Fasta Than Lightening was trained by Pat Duff, Toowoomba, and ridden by Miki Nakao.<br>

Eric and Kayley Sprott with Gerard Nolan, Gympie.

Emma Franz, Manumbar, and Lachlan Rockemer, Tansey.  

Christian Trajceuski and Gemma Jamieson, Arana Hills.

Mark McCudden, Buderim, with Susie and Mark Broomhall, Cooroy. 

Molly Hamilton, Zoe Nevin and Taylor Meredith, Gympie.

Gaynor and Ned Shields, Rosehill, Takilberan with Carmel Coombe, Glenlee, Rockhampton.

Some of the big crowd helping celebrate 60 years of Nolan Meats at the Gympie Races.

Darryn Greenhalgh, Gympie, Andrew Roysmith, Agricom, West End, and Mark and Lewis, Gympie.

Dane Brischke and Brady Rice, Maryborough.

Tom Briggs, Wavell Heights, Aleisha Dodt, Gympie, Bryony Gilmour and Ben Mather, Ryde, NSW.

Brett and Desley Tucker, Bundaberg, with Sharon and David Winders, Wambo Feedlot, Dalby.

Peter Wickham, Warwick, Rohan Keogh, Killarney, and Tony Nolan, Gympie.

Jessica Kirby, Gympie, with Dan and Steph Mulheran, Hervey Bay.

Warwick and Melanie Fraser, Warwick, and Elizabeth and Athol Carter, Dalby.

Gary Dundas, Paradise Dam, Tiarna Thomas, Buddina, Shane Carpenter, Hervey Bay, and Paul Goodman, Bilambil Heights, NSW.  

Stan Wallace, Sinnamon Park, Lisa Simpson, Ray White Rural, Biloela, and Terry Nolan, Nolan Meats.

Robyn Nolan, Gympie, Jamie Hampson, Red Hill, and Madeline Owens, Stafford, Heights.

Team Chelmer – Mike Sherrett, Phillip Bate, Neil Burnton, and David Arnst.

Claudia and Dennis Granshaw, Granview, Cedar Pocket.

Cam and Lisa Hughes, Malarga, Brooweena, Ben Forrest, Colliers International, and John Bambling, Bambling Rural, Gympie.

Ivan and Sharyon Naggs, Spring Ridge, Neusa Vale. 

Michael and Kay O’Neill, Pepperina Park, Kilkivan, with Nicole and Mark Torrens, Neusa Vale, and Queensland Country Life’s Brendan Wade.

Carmel Coombe and Tom Donnelly, Glenlee, Rockhampton, with Fionula Fanning, Rockhampton, Robert Maudsley, Waterfall Feedlot, Goomeri, and Tracey and Michael Litfin, Waterfall Feedlot.

Liberty Jones and Maddie Rice, Wavell Heights, with Maddi Sparks, Gympie.

NOLAN GRANDSONS: Will Nolan, Milton, Matt Nolan, Gympie, Kevin Rice, Wavell Heights, and Declan Rice, Wavell Heights.

Nita Fisher, Val Fitzsimmons, and Marie Clarke, Hervey Bay.

Annette Fletcher, Stephanie Perrett and David Fletcher, Gympie.

Horese play: Aleisha Willis, Hervey Bay, Sean Haines, Kandanga, and Belinda Hawes, Biggenden.

Bob Marsh, Brooweena, and Jack Murray, Eidsvold.

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS: Michael, Tony and Terry Nolan with their father Pat Nolan.

Nolan Meats celebrates 60 years

Mark Phelps

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