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Hay production is underway across the Mallee, with some sheds already filling up, an oyster grower from Streaky Bay is hoping his recent Nuffield Scholarship studies will help with one of the biggest issues growers face and 16 final year students from Flinders University TAFE SA fashion and costume students exhibited their work at Clare's Festival of the Lamb.

The Murray Darling Basin Authority releases a draft Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment Mechanism, rains across South Australia bring a needed boost to seasonal crops helping them to finish off ahead of this years harvest and the fire season will be off to an early start in three of the state's northern districts with an increased bushfire risk expected due to higher fuel loads.

Tractor and machinery sales slump to a 15-year-low, Australia's organic industry passes one billion dollars in annual sales for the first time, and White Cliffs plays host to a international student rocket launch competition.

Cattle Australia is preparing to put a series of recommendations to its levy payers on changes to the cattle transaction levy, Australia is considering a deal with Uruguay that could increase Australia's beef quota into China and fifty years ago today the famous Blue Hills theme played for the last time ending Australia's longest running radio serial.

Rural news and events from South Australia and the nation.

Giant Pine Scale has been found in trees in the Hope Valley Resevoir and Highbury Aqueduct reserves, the Chandlers of Charra on the west coast Eyre Peninsula have been the first to get their crop to the silos this year and Australia's cattle industry is on track to produce more than 3 million tonnes of beef this year - which will be a national record.

Wine grape growers consider future as next seasons minimum prices are announced, attention on biofuels which could strengthen Australia's fuel security and create new markets for the country's farmers at the same time and despite strong disease and pest pressure a South East agronomist is optimistic seasonal results will be strong.

Strong harvest expected following the latest crop and pasture reports, why one canola expert believes farmers overgrowing canola could be putting the whole industry at risk, and high cocoa prices and increased manufacturing costs mean chocolate prices remain stubbornly high.

Broadacre farmers in the Southern Mallee say frost events in the last week have led to damage in some of their grain and lentil crops, an auto-fill system from Swarm Farm Robotics that aims to keep the robots spraying weeds into the night has won the Henty Machinery Field Days Machine of the Year and expressions of interest are now open for the South Australia Winegrape Grower Transition Loan Scheme.

The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters Association has backed the Australian Trucking Association's call for urgent fuel tax relief, Clean Up conference in Adelaide highlights the work being done to deal with PFAS chemicals on farm and the federal government has opened public consultation on a proposed mandatory winegrape purchases code of conduct.

The country's peak body for the wine industry says the support package for South Australia shows great leadership but other states need assistance too, farmers can now apply for help repairing and servicing private firefighting equipment ahead of this year's bushfire season and despite a wet season in Far West New South Wales, the Menindee Lakes are experiencing poor quality water and low levels coming into Summer.

The State Government announces a $109million support package for SA's struggling wine industry, farming groups raise concerns over the government's changes to working holiday-maker visas, and safety warnings after near-misses involving photography drones and low-flying aircraft over canola crops.

The Federal Government set to outline its plans to overhaul Australia's migration system, a warning for farmers as locusts begin hatching around parts of SA, and a transport group calls for diesel storage to be located in regional areas where it's needed.

Farmers in the Riverland and Mallee are concerned that the state primary industries department has excluded them from locust surveillance and aerial spraying, a new wheat variety developed to withstand heat and frost landed on the market yesterday to support growers to handle increasingly unpredictable weather events and South Australia's Dr Karleah Berris has been awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which she'll use to study how farmers in other countries are leading wildlife conservation on agricultural land.

Calls for greater funding for country health services as SA hosts the National Rural Health Conference, ag groups seek emergency talks on the Federal Government's go-slow on working holiday visas, and agrochemical company Bayer seeking regulator approval to release a new weed killer in Australia.