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Story Added Tue, 7th of Aug 2012
Dairy Connect is proposing to establish Dairy Connect Limited in a bid to renew confidence in the industry and develop new export markets for fresh milk.
According to a document proposing the group, ...
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Story Added Tue, 7th of Aug 2012
Under the plan, there will be just two zones from January 1 – control areas and protected areas.
Sheepmeat Council of Australia president Ian McColl said the areas replaced the current low, ...
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Story Added Tue, 7th of Aug 2012
The plan creates an adjustment mechanism that recognises less water can be used to water wetlands, by using pumps, weirs and levees.
The Victorian Farmers’ Federation said more clarification ...
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Story Added Tue, 7th of Aug 2012
Meat and Livestock Australia released the mid-year sheep projections yesterday, with chief economist Tim McRae stating it was no surprise good prices and seasons seen in the past two years had eased ...
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Story Added Tue, 7th of Aug 2012
Fusarium crown rot is the last thing a farmer wants to find in his paddock, but each year the serious disease causes nearly $80 million damage across Australia’s 11 million hectare wheat ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
Need new fencing over there? Thinking of dividing up the top paddocks? According to DPI soils water and climate officer Sarah Wallis, the department’s Whole Farm Planning” course has it ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
Better known as the Cash Cow, the Meat and Livestock Australia funded project showed all four regions of northern Australia including Downs, Brigalow, Southern Forest and Northern Forest experienced ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
The Grains Research and Development Corporation recently released a spraying guide for farmers, urging farmers to avoid spraying when wind speeds are above 16 to 18km/h.
“A Canadian study ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
The review was released last week by federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten.
It recommends the right to seek flexible work arrangements be extended to a wider range of ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
Last week, Senator Jacinta Collins launched the $21.7 million seasonal worker program in Sydney, in a bid to help employers who can’t attract enough local employees.
As part of the program, ...
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Story Added Mon, 6th of Aug 2012
Thanks to an international plant study involving Queensland scientists, it has been discovered that microbial communities or microbiomes living in plant roots play a huge role in plant health, growth ...
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Story Added Fri, 3rd of Aug 2012
While the LPA National Vendor Declaration is a voluntary on-farm food safety program, producers who are not part of it have trouble selling livestock and can expect to receive up to 40% less than ...
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Story Added Fri, 3rd of Aug 2012
In the eastern pool, the estimated return for APW1 is $345/tonne while APW1 in the South Australian pool is set at $340/tonne.
ANW1 is forecast at $355/tonne in the western pool, while APW2 is set ...
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Story Added Fri, 3rd of Aug 2012
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott released the paper today, which is seeking community input on developing a national register of foreign ownership of businesses, requiring foreign applicants to pass a ...
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Story Added Fri, 3rd of Aug 2012
National Australia Bank agribusiness general manager Khan Horne said the 2012/13 season was set to see the cotton crop yield 4 million bales, the second biggest crop in the country in 20 years.
He ...
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