New Norcia full-time broadacre farmer Dave Mackie has been thinking about the need for carbon in his soils for some time and after a trial on his property this season showed an encouraging return on investment of $160-$180 per hectare, he's now set to put his thinking into action.

Australian researchers have confirmed a new form of dual fungicide resistance in the common barley disease, net form net blotch (NFNB).

A nutrionist says consumers need to be alert, not alarmed, after a Flinders Uni study found toxoplasma in a third of lamb mince samples.