Tag: PIRSA

  • 2025 Regional Showcase and Ag Town of the Year Awards
  • Collaboration supports the flow of culture and knowledge

    Collaboration supports the flow of culture and knowledge

    The Pondi (Murray cod) monitoring project united First Nations knowledge with modern-day science, as rangers from the Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation (NAC) and River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation (RMMAC) worked together with South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) researchers. The project was funded by the Australian Government through the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s (CEWH’s)…

  • Three finalists announced for 2025 AgTown of the Year

    Three finalists announced for 2025 AgTown of the Year

    This year’s Agricultural Town of the Year award will see the towns of Keith, Kimba and Lameroo vie for the coveted title. Primary Industries and Regional Development Minister Clare Scriven congratulated the towns’ communities on reaching this stage of the competition, noting each town went “above and beyond to exceed the award criteria”. This year’s…

  • Three finalists announced for 2024 Ag Town of the Year

    This year’s Agricultural Town of the Year award will see the towns of Burra, Kimba and Penola vie for the title. Primary Industries and Regional Development Minister Clare Scriven congratulated the towns’ communities on reaching this stage of the competition and wished them “all the best” for the upcoming town visits that will help to…

  • Cream of the crop for Ag Town of the Year

    The Top 10 Towns have been announced in the 2024 Agricultural Town of the Year, an initiative of the Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA). The state’s Mid North region is well represented with Burra, Eudunda, Gladstone, Jamestown and Laura all garnering a spot, as voted for by the public. Bute at the top…

  • Wine industry’s bushfire recovery made possible by funding

    Winemaker Darren Golding and his wife Lucy have just finished what she calls “the final piece of the puzzle” in rejuvenating their vineyard after the devastating Cudlee Creek fire tore through on December 20, 2019. More than 25,000 hectares of the district was burned, including their 26 hectares of vines at Lobethal. “Some vines were…

  • 7 award-winning SA wine experiences you must do

    South Australia’s 2024 Best Of Wine Tourism Awards have been announced, with seven local experiences set to compete for a Global Best Of Wine Tourism Award presented later this month. Adelaide’s membership in the Great Wine Capitals Global Network will pit our winners against experiences in the other eleven wine capitals. These include Bordeaux, San…

  • Briefcase: Business Snippets from around South Australia

    Riverland wines on the world stage at Vinexpo Asia Australia’s largest urban commercial microgrid opens at IKEA Adelaide Australia and Austria revolutionising wind power generation Rockburst Technologies to establish its first global office in Adelaide South Australia urged to bid for UN climate change conference South Australian tourism industry returns to pre-COVID normality Calls for…

  • Briefcase: Business Snippets from around South Australia

    Adelaide-based companies achieve space propulsion technology milestone South Australia bids to host major Japanese business event The Randall Wine Group secures a sustainable future Crop production grows to record heights French company lands exclusive deal with Adelaide Airport South Australia commended at Sustainable Seafood Awards New HQ for Nova Systems Testing for global food and…

  • Hundreds of dead carp washed up on SA beaches

    Photos taken by InDaily over the weekend show piles of rotting carp carcases at Middleton Beach, with locals and tourists taking to social media to bemoan the stench. The Department of Primary Industries and Regions said it started to receive reports of dead juvenile European carp being washed up on nearby Goolwa Beach on Thursday…