PIRSA

Thursday, September 24

Ousted PIRSA chief to helm Onkaparinga Council

The Onkaparinga Council has appointed former long-serving primary industries boss Scott Ashby as its new CEO.

A toxic pest that’s been found in South Australian cereal crops cannot be eradicated, agricultural authorities say.

South Australia’s crops have defied a hot, dry start to the year to keep yield estimates at 7.2 million tonnes for the second successive season.

South Australia’s valuable oyster industry is on alert after the detection of a deadly virus that all but wiped out New South Wales stocks.

The damage bill for almost 60,000 tonnes of unharvested grain crops and feed lost in the Pinery fire has climbed to an estimated $24 million.