30 Sep 08 | At a hastily convened Landcare meeting yesterday, around 100 landholders affected by the proposed Tarong Coal mine on the Haystack Plain called on the Queensland government to protect iconic farmlands from mining development.
30 Sep 08 | Primary producers, researchers and environmental groups from all over the country have converged in Brisbane to discuss strategic tools to improve natural resource management.
30 Sep 08 | AgForce believes agricultural systems can play a role in sequestration of carbon but some of these mechanisms are not yet recognised under the Kyoto Protocol and there has been little investment in research into how to accurately measure, verify and monitor it.
30 Sep 08 | More than a month after the outbreak of the deadly equine Hendra virus, the owner of the Brisbane clinic at the centre of the scare is facing an investigation and a possible lawsuit that could see him barred from animal practice.
30 Sep 08 | A national and state food policy is needed to aggressively invest in expanding food production if Australia is to play its part in easing the current global food crisis, according to the Queensland Farmers' Federation.
29 Sep 08 | Experts have declared there is no equine influenza present in any of the 74 horses at the Eastern Creek Quarantine Station, based on final test results.
29 Sep 08 | A pastoralist from Queensland's gulf country has purchased Sellwood, west of Gympie, for $4.3 million.
29 Sep 08 | A man has died after the cropdusting plane he was flying crashed in the Darling Downs early this afternoon.
29 Sep 08 | All categories of goat prices have recovered slightly after over the hooks goat prices reached their lowest point in four years during March this year, Meat and Livestock Australia reports.
29 Sep 08 | Australian Beef Association chairman Brad Bellinger says he is still in shock at the rejection by Meat and Livestock Australia of the resolutions put to them by members for the upcoming annual general meeting.
29 Sep 08 | US analysts are projecting China's number of corn hectares to be flat to down but production to be higher thanks to better weather and more rainfall this growing season.
29 Sep 08 | The latest United States Department of Agriculture cattle on feed report has recorded the fifth consecutive monthly decline when compared to the same time last year, at 9.997 million head as at 1 September 2008.
26 Sep 08 | Wednesday's annual Santa Central Santa Gertrudis Sale, Nobby, Queensland, saw sires top at $27,500 to record one of the breed's best results for the 2008 year, ending with a $7133 average for the 90 classified bulls sold.
26 Sep 08 | Despite a recent rebound, the Aussie dollar has fallen by about 15pc since July, with the Westpac-NFF Commodity Index reporting that Australian farmers are breathing easier on the back of improved international competitiveness and better prices on the global market.
26 Sep 08 | Following last week's news that the Jap ox indicator had reached its highest point in seven years, Meat and Livestock Australia reports that the indicator slipped this week by 5¢/kg to 198.6¢/kg.
26 Sep 08 | Queensland beer drinkers will soon have one less reason to feel guilty about knocking back a cold one, with XXXX dropping all preservatives and artificial additives from its Gold and Bitter lines.
25 Sep 08 | When it comes to barramundi, Australia does it green and clean.
25 Sep 08 | The talk of genetically modified foods within Australia stirs up different emotions within people. Some are fearful of it, others long to embrace it.
25 Sep 08 | A touch of science fiction has come to a Queensland Brahman stud.
25 Sep 08 | It’s hard to imagine in these mineral rich times that a gold mine could be going out of business but in the Northern Territory, this situation is on the cards.
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