August 2025
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Matt a cut above
A remarkable century
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No ill will on closure The scion of one of the South Burnett’s original peanut farming families said he harboured no resentment toward Bega Group for their role in the impending collapse of Kingaroy’s Peanut Company of Australia. Wilfred Young, 94, is the son of Henry Young - the man who, in 1928, built Queensland’s first mechanical peanut thresher in the South Burnett sparking a renaissance for the industry. COVERAGE PAGES 4-5, 11
Kingaroy’s Wilfred Young remembers well the days on his father’s pioneering peanut farm. Decades later, he does not see the looming end of the Peanut Company of Australia as surprising. (Julian Lehnert: 490253)
Floating an idea By Fiona Gowers Floating solar panels on farm dams could revolutionise irrigated agriculture by alleviating evaporation and generating energy. In a bid to solve some of the cotton industry’s
biggest challenges - optimising water retention in the face of a hotter, drier climate and reducing carbon emissions through the generation of clean energy - the groundbreaking research could save Australian cotton growers water and money, boost productivity and set a crucial new
industry environmental and sustainability standard. It is a win-win, Australian-first project. Nearly half of water storage volume is lost each year to evaporation and relocating just half of the current 16.6GW grounded solar panels to
water storages could save 296GL of water a year, equivalent to more than 118,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Simultaneously, it would generate vast quantities of energy. STORY PAGE 3
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