June 16, 2020

It’s hard to imagine that Australian agriculture would have been able to compete globally if we had stood still in the early 1980s with machinery that maxed out at 350hp tractors, 40ft bars and 30ft header fronts.  Over the past forty years the size of the largest new machinery has effectively doubled. One of the hidden forces of productivity growth in the Australian broadacre agricultural sector is the use of large modern high-tech machinery.  The

One of the great failures of the First World War was the handling of the subsequent peace by the Western allies after their comprehensive victory over the German-led Central powers. Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the London Schedule of Payments, which saw the beginning of the transfer of the 132 billion gold marks (US33 billion) in reparations claimed from Germany to cover the civilian damage caused during the Great War. The arrogance of