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Greenfields stud principal Robert Sullivan and son Lachie, Booborowie, holds grand champion Merino August-shorn ram exhibit 819 sashed by judge Spike Orr, Gundarimbah Stud, Parks, NSW. Picture by Kiara Stacey The Greenfields and Glendonald Merino studs have excelled in the August-shorn Merino competition at the 2026 Royal Adelaide Show, claiming the grand champion ram and ewe titles respectively.

View +22 Photos Pictures by Alisha Fogden Nearly 30 schools took part in the Royal Adelaide Show steers on-hoof competition, across the 22 weight divisions, with the beef cattle sheds humming with hundreds of students busy prepping their teams.

For Grace Griffiths, the future of Australian agriculture is not something to simply talk about, it is something she believes needs to be actively worked on.

Maryfield Station has a rated carrying capacity of 15,000 Adult Equivalents with a 9800 head feedyard. Pictures from LAWD. Two NT cattle stations have joined the sales market while a third has just sold.

Two large-scale cropping properties are back on the sales market. Pictures from Elders. Institutional farm investors have been invited to have another look at two big properties back on the sales market in northern Victoria near Swan Hill and in NSW across from Mildura.

2026 SA Rural Ambassador finalists Flynn Evans (Central), Lachlan Ruchs (South East & Border), Luke Radford (Southern), Cassy Duncan-Tiver (Northern), Sarah Lavelle (Northern) and Sophie Tamblyn (South East & Border) at the Adelaide Show Ag Learning Centre. Picture by Jacqui Bateman Sarah Lavelle's love of country shows started at just four years of age riding a pony at the Temora Show in the NSW Riverina where she grew up.

Australia's chemical regulator has proposed a new cost structure. Picture by AgriShots. The national agricultural chemical regulator's proposal to dramatically increase upfront registration fees could leave some new crop protection products stranded in a regulatory "no man's land", according to submissions lodged as consultation on the plan closed.

The pig industry could face challenges from activists. Picture by Paula Thompson Activism has had huge ramifications for the overseas pig sector, including the abolishment of the 130-year-old Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in major pork producing nation Denmark.

Young farmer Lauren Roellgen is an industry advocate, community leader and has become an influential voice for the future of Australian agriculture. Picture supplied Working full-time on her family's cotton and grain enterprise Tyunga Farms, near Brookstead, Lauren Roellgen has built a reputation that extends well beyond the farm gate.

Nuffield 2027 Scholars, Seated (L-R) Sam Fryer, Ivan Blacket, Lynne MacDonald, Jacky Cartwright. Standing (L-R) Billi Marshall, Kristen Clark, Harry Tyson, Jodi Duncan, Heidi Millership, Rachael McGrath, Rebecca Fing, Ellenor Nixon, Angus Smith, Lucy Etheridge, John Board. Picture by Adam Taylor & Toby Zerna Fourteen agriculturalists have been named as Nuffield Australia's 2027 scholars, with the new cohort announced in Darwin on September 8.