Farmers wanting to increase their renewable energy footprint are facing too many hurdles, an energy conference will hear.
Liv Casben
Authorities have eased restrictions imposed on some NSW beekeepers to limit the varroa mite outbreak amid hope the deadly parasite can be eradicated.
WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan has hosed down fears of a ban on beef exports to China, saying the Federal Government made it clear there was ‘no evidence of rejected shipments’.
Cally Dupe
Farms across the Mid West and Wheatbelt are underwater after heavy rainfall flooded roads and caused creeks to break their banks, with the regions copping an unexpected lashing in the past 24 hours.
Shannon Verhagen
After discovering 11 years of underpayments, one of Australia's major beef suppliers will repay staff more than $2.5 million.
Laine Clark
One of WA’s most well-known grains research leaders has been unveiled as the new boss of Grains Australia, with Richard Simonaitis set to take the reins in November.
Anthony Albanese has called on China to remove sanctions against Australian products amid fears that Beijing will stop beef imports over disease concerns.
Dominic Giannini and Liv Casben
Australian businesses continue to adapt their strategies in response to the changing operating landscape, with new data showing a record number of business invested in new equipment and machinery.
Cheyanne Enciso
A senior animal diseases expert warns that tree changers and pet pig owners pose a risk to Australia's biosecurity.
A NSW oyster farmer has developed a mobile phone application to help growers boost production and efficiency by keeping track of their oysters.
A Labor MP has claimed the media is fuelling a foot-and-mouth disease ‘fear campaign’ and accused a farming lobby group of making a ‘disgraceful personal slur’ against Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan.
Peter Law
An agribusiness report into intergenerational report has found more than three quarters of farmers are optimistic about the future of farming.
Officials have revealed when they first learnt about the arrival of a highly infectious disease from “informal sources”.
Courtney Gould
A study of unintentional farm deaths across Australia shows older men are more likely to have fatal accidents, with vehicles and machines the biggest risks.
Stephanie Gardiner
Officials may expand bans on foods being brought in from Indonesia by travellers as the situation with foot and mouth disease evolves, an inquiry has been told.
Andrew Brown
The federal government will not introduce a specific visa for agricultural workers wanting to come to Australia to help address critical labour shortages.
Maeve Bannister
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has announced Australia will send an additional $10 million to Indonesia to help in its fight against the spread of foot and mouth disease.
Kimberley Caines
The Northern Territory's growing cotton industry could harm Top End river systems, damaging the fishing and tourism businesses, a report has warned.
Aaron Bunch
Farmers are being urged to attend a town hall-style meeting bound to be informative but expected to cause fireworks over topics including WA’s grain supply chain and foot-and-mouth disease.
The federal government has launched an inaugural biosecurity plan amid what it describes as emerging climate change challenges.
Any argument for Labor running a candidate in the North West Central by-election was laid to rest the moment Alannah MacTiernan suggested foot-and-mouth disease could drive down the price of meat and milk.
Josh Zimmerman
A shortage of bee hives has left almond growers facing multi-million dollar losses, the industry's peak Australian body says.
With the world in dire need of wheat from Australia, companies innovating to get new ways of getting the vital commodity to market are being rewarded.
Sybilla Gross
Steve Butler explains how a bid to put grass and water on a gravelly football oval in WA’s Wheatbelt led to the iconic agricultural show that is the Dowerin Field Days.
Steve Butler
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