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Red meat proved to be carbon efficient
09 Feb 10 |
AUSTRALIAN red meat production is much more carbon-efficient than often reported in the media, says an important study by the University of NSW.
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Lack of water data puts northern food bowl on hold
09 Feb 10 |
SAFE drinking water should be secured for people across northern Australia before the nation tries to turn the Top End into the food bowl of Asia, a taskforce has told the Federal Government.
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Rudd says no to Top End food bowl
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Kangatarians the latest niche in green food market
09 Feb 10 |
THERE'S a new semi-vegetarian movement emerging in Australia: people who exclude all meat except kangaroo on environmental, ecological and humanitarian grounds. They call themselves kangatarians and are slowly growing in numbers.
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Turnbull slams Abbott's carbon plan
Farmers want pastoral north
USDA changes tack on animal traceability
Robot milkers boost herd potential
Buy more wool, Prince Charles says
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MULTIMEDIA
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Photos from the Naracoorte sale
09 Feb 10 |
Buyers vied for the limited number of heifers and cows at Naracoorte.
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Photos from Barellan Sheep Sale
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STATE NEWS
More photos from the property rights rally
09 Feb 10 |
A new collection of photos taken at last week's property rights protest at Parliament House, Canberra.
Labelling may miss the mark, report says
09 Feb 10 |
LABEL on or label off? Apparently if you are consumer in the United Kingdom you just don’t care if a country of origin label is on a food product or not, new research from its top national food watchdog has uncovered.
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Aussie food not worth its salt
Future focus for NTCA meeting
Aussies lead vineyard innovation
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Dairymen being milked to death
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09 Feb 10 |
A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female voters.
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Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium
09 Feb 10 |
BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.
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08 Feb 10 |
IN THE sporting phrase, the Coalition plan has soil carbon peaking too early.
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