RBA increases the cash rate by 0.25% at the March Board meeting

Written 25th March 2026 At their March 17th meeting and in a 5/4 split decision, the RBA board voted to increase the cash rate to 4.10%, an increase of 0.25%. The decision was largely based on “robust” inflation numbers from Q4 2025 and a tightening in the labour...

Spray summer weeds straight away – for Nitrogen

As I write, Cyclone Narelle is heading down the coast, with forecast rainfall of 30 to 130mm. At the same time, the war in Iran is limiting nitrogen supplies, with some growers unlikely to receive all the N fertiliser they have ordered. Urea prices for late N...