Prospect|Contents
OUTLOOK
VIEWPOINT
4
Hot Topics
28
Landscape
News from across the agricultural landscape
Tim Condon
Delta Ag Senior Agronomist
6
Cover Story In Focus
30
Taking Stock
Tegan Nock
Des Makeham
How this young farmer is taking charge
Delta/HLB Director and Head
of Livestock Division
30
Rural Property
Tim Corcoran
Rural Sales Manager Delta/HLB
31
Livestock Health
Matt Hardy
10
FARMING FEATURES
Trangie’s Quigley Farms
Master Farmer
15
Insight
From paddock to plate: Baking up a record
Delta Ag Wagga Wagga Branch Manager
20
Interest
31
Grain Watch
Beaut utes: Unique outback art
Mick Parry Delta Grain General Manager
22
Farming’s Future
Taking flight: Delta team jet-sets to the
32
Product Watch
United States
Kevin Holt
Delta Ag Procurement Manager
TECHNO TALK
33
New Technology
The benefits of a Next G repeater
DELTA DIARY
36
Around the Traps
Social snaps
39
On the radar
Events on the agricultural calendar
25
On the Rail
Delta Grain’s pool champ: Graham Martin-Dye
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FOR FARMERS IN THE KNOW
Editor Rosie O’Keeffe Art Director Dean Kinlyside
Publisher Neon Media Group General Manager Dean Kinlyside
Contributors Felicity Dunn Photography, SixtybyTwenty Photography, Justine McGregor, Adele Pardy Photography & Jennifer Napier
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