Loxton’s Longest Brunch.
Take your seat at Loxton’s Longest Brunch, where farmers, growers, and community gather to share stories, learn about tribulations, celebrate successes, and savour the produce that sustains us all.
Sunday 26 October 2025, 9:30am
Loxton Main Street
(opposite the Loxton Hotel)
Feeding Farmers, Sharing Stories.
“Watching a lifetime of work slip away, one forecast at a time”
Meet McCoy and Beth, who turned their farming dream into a reality. Except, the unkind seasons are pushing their dream to the edge.
Pata, Riverland
Stock Journal
Article 17 September 2025
“Riverland farmers and community serve up their own drought support package”.
“When the feed arrived, it wasn’t just hay - it was hope.”
This is Steve. Like so many farmers this season, his paddocks are bare and feed is scarce. Recently, a charitable delivery was brought into the region. Farmers gathered to collect their share, loading up whatever they could to take back home.
Bugle Hut, Riverland
Grain Producers SA
Article 12 September 2025
Grain Producer Magazine Winter/Spring 2025.
Pages 36-43
“Even the best farmers - ones with decades of experience, careful rotation plans, and top land management - cannot plan for seasons like this.”
“Farmers spending habits have changed as their input costs are so much greater.”
The tough conditions have seen farmers tighten spending by repairing or delaying tyre replacements, which in turn affects our ability to hold key sizes due to cash flow pressures.
Goodyear Autocare, Loxton
“If the bees go hungry, so do we.”
For the humble bees, this drought means one thing - no pollen, no nectar, no water. Bees are responsible for pollinating a third of the food we eat: almonds, citrus, berries, canola, vegetables. These hives are more than boxes in a paddock - they’re life support units for our food system.
Century Orchards, Loxton
“I have been asked if there is a particular conversation I have had with a local primary producer that has struck a chord, and I would have to say, there have been more than I wish to admit.”
Mitch Gibbs, owner of MGE Riverland.
“This is a loader pushing out vines, and a livelihood.”
A grower has made the gut-wrenching decision to remove their red grape vines. Why? Because the price wineries are paying for fruit has sunk to levels that barely cover the cost of harvest and in some cases, not even that.
Loxton, Riverland