CARRYING on a rich tradition of excelling with sheep and tourism in a region many would call harsh, Pandurra Station's Bruce and Julie Nutt, via Port Augusta, consider themselves lucky to live in the area. "We think it's the best pastoral country, it's just so robust, and responds so well to even a little bit of rain," Bruce said. "It's reliably dry, you're not expecting anything else." The pair have proudly managed Pandurra since the late 1970s, with Bruce being the fourth generation of the...

HANDY SOLUTION: Laurie Gaston, Kielpa, has been making smudge bars for just over a decade, by attaching a H iron steel beam to the underside of a wideseeder. With soil drift repeatedly causing headaches for croppers during summer months, Laurie Gaston, Amaroo, Kielpa, has tried his hand at coming up with a solution. Mr Gaston, who leases out 980 hectares on which wheat, barley and canola are grown, has created his own smudge bar, attaching an H iron steel beam to the undercarriage of a John...

Young Australians passionate about the wool industry have converged on SA this week, for the biennial Breeding Leadership program. Funded by AWI and facilitated by Rural Directions, Clare, the program aims to grow and inspire emerging leaders in the wool industry. Program activities include workshops on topics such as succession planning, policy development and delegation, networking dinners, and visits to Anlaby Station, Hamilton, Mulloorie stud, Brinkworth, and Collinsville stud,...

Yarding: 198 cattle, 1382 sheep and lambs Steers to $1660 Cows to $1780 Lambs to $228 Wethers to $244 Ewes to $244 A tightening supply of sheep and lambs helped prices to soar at the Mount Pleasant market on Thursday, with ewes and wethers both climbing to $244. Landmark Fawcett Mount Pleasant principal Colin Fawcett said the sheep market was met with "very good demand", which helped push the prices up. "There's a bit of a mutton shortage - everyone is looking for them, but they're not...

The rising demand for grain in the domestic market, coupled with the benefits of selling grain at peak prices, has prompted Andrew Thomas, Thomfarms, Moorlands, to invest heavily in on-farm grain storage. Andrew, along with wife Emily and parents Barry and Maureen, crops 3100 hectares of wheat, barley, canola, lupins, lentils, oats, and export oaten hay, and first started storing grain on-farm in 2010, originally buying four 70-tonne Jackson silos to store seed. But since then, he has...