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The GRDC marks 30 years of presenting its annual update in Adelaide, SA researchers focus on the future of double-knock weed management and herbicide resistance, and debate continues over whether Goyder's Line is moving.

South Australian vets and biosecurity officers help assess and treat livestock injured in Victorian fires, donations of fodder flow from South Australians farmers into Victorian fire zones, and the Australian cattle industry forecast to enter a herd rebuild phase this year.

A Saleyards Canteen competition is shining a spotlight on the often overlooked importance of the humble saleyards canteen, and the people who run them, and prolonged heat like South Australia has been observing can be very detrimental for the states fruit growers. Producers in the Riverland and Mid North have been feeling the impacts. 

In parts of South Australia temps over 40 degrees for ten days has been observed. For many in the outback they are pretty used to the heat but when its hot for so long it's still very uncomfortable, we catch up on how have they been faring. And Irrigators in the Riverland are having to plan and prepare for hot days and as much as experience can play a part, it's still a bit of a guessing game, putting grapes, nuts and stone fruit at risk.

Late rain in some areas has meant South Australian farmers have reaped an 8.9 million tonne crop in 2025/26, Australian wine exports declined by 8 per cent in value to $2.34 billion and 6 per cent in volume to 613 million litres in 2025 and hundreds of Aussie exporters and trade officials are at Gulfood in the Emirates' biggest city, Dubai.

Resistance to DIM herbicides has been a long time coming but research agronomist Peter Boutsalis says it has arrived with a vengeance, the Australian Government's Business Research and Innovation Initiative has provided two million dollars to develop these two low-emissions alternatives to glass wine bottles and pest insects to thrive in a warming climate

Since 1979 Rex Liebelt has been a stalwart of South Australian show, receiving an OAM for his dedication, for the third year in a row Freeling farmer Harrison Schuster has tilled a piece of Australia Day artwork into his paddock and the state opposition is promising to extend grants for farm fire-fighting units until 2030, if it wins the March electionstralia and the nation.

Australian table grapes exports to Japan have increased by nearly 300 per cent following a successful campaign to remove trade restrictions on varieties and Saleyards Australia wants your help finding the best saleyards canteen in the country. 

A Riverland wine grape grower says the state and federal government's extension of the SA Wine Recovery Program until 2027 will not meaningfully help growers and a new report has found record high cocoa prices and a volatile supply has made some chocolate companies explore alternative, cheaper ways to get that cocoa taste like growing it in a lab.

A cow has been scientifically documented using a tool for the first time, and SA Police Minister Blair Boyer explains how the new federal hate speech and gun control laws will mean for the state. 

A team of 10 South Australian biosecurity field staff are heading the Victoria to help assess livestock injured in the fires there in recent weeks, the Birdsville Track is now open to all road users following the completion of minor works near the Cooper Creek causeway and there are hopes artificial intelligence could help to prevent more mass fish deaths along the Darling River in outback New South Wales.

Tens of thousands of houses will need to be built in regional South Australia to meet the housing needs by 2051 according to a new report and the State Government has released six regional plans to set out the housing, land use and infrastructure needs for Kangaroo Island, Eyre and Western Peninsula, Far North, Yorke Peninsula and Mid North, Murray Mallee and Limestone Coast. 

The Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) has declared a Queensland fruit fly outbreak in Elizabeth East, a team of experienced South Australian biosecurity field staff will be deployed to Victoria to support the response to the ongoing fires and the final remaining closed section of the Birdsville Track in South Australia is now open to road users, which means the Cooper Creek Barge is no longer required. 

The River Murray downstream of the Darling River is now listed as critically endangered under national environment law, at Talia Farms in the Riverland table grape harvest has begun and more than 250,000 people around Australia do not have ready access to veterinary services, according to new research

Queensland graziers say multiple rain gauges failed during major floods that have led to almost 50,000 cattle deaths, for the first time an Australian Red will be up for auction at International Dairy Week and in one of the most remote parts of new South Wales, a desert has been turned into an oasis.