6/07/2008 | Joint research by WA's Department of Agriculture and Food and Murdoch University has shown cattle can be successfully introduced to grain-based diets in commercial feedlots without the use of feed additives.
6/07/2008 | Solar-powered air-driven remote sheep drafting technology could offer practical and profitable solutions to managing targeted paddock feed supplementation programs and drought management strategies.
5/07/2008 | Total Australian wool production is forecast to decline slightly in the 2008/09 season, despite expected higher output in Queensland and NSW, according to AWI's Production and Forecasting Committee.
5/07/2008 | Emerald Irrigation Area cotton growers are researching their winter crop rotation options by undertaking on-farm trials to investigate optimum irrigated wheat and chickpea planting times and chickpea row spacing configuration.
4/07/2008 | Competition was keen for the better lines of Angus steer and heifer weaners at Pakenham, Vic, store cattle market yesterday, where a huge increase in numbers saw 1409 steers and heifers, and 346 cows and calves penned.
4/07/2008 | Australia's Poultry Cooperative Research Centre has won the prestigious World's Poultry Science Association's Industry/Organisation Award, making it the leading poultry research body in the world.
4/07/2008 | Federal Water Minister Penny Wong has welcomed the Garnaut report as a call to arms, saying that without action irrigated agriculture in the Murray Darling is doomed.
4/07/2008 | Professor Ross Garnaut's portrayal of the urgency of climate change does not match his support for a slow start to emissions trading and incremental economic change, according to Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne.
4/07/2008 | The draft report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review confirms that every trucking company must have a system to pass increases in the cost of fuel on to their customers, according to the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, Trevor Martyn.
4/07/2008 | The Federal Opposition has welcomed the release of the draft report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review, but disagrees on the inclusion of petrol in an emissions trading scheme.
4/07/2008 | As expected, Professor Ross Garnaut has recommended agriculture should not be part of an emissions trading scheme from the start, but said the scheme must be broad in coverage when it is fully operational.
4/07/2008 | While agriculture is to be locked out of the national emissions trading scheme, the forestry sector has welcomed its inclusion.
4/07/2008 | Beef and veal exports fell 4.5pc in 2007-08 from the record in 2006-07, to 930,319 tonnes, reflecting a fall in beef supplies and the higher Australian dollar, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.
4/07/2008 | AgForce has backed Professor Ross Garnaut's recommendation that agriculture be excluded from the national emissions trading scheme, saying no other country in the world has been able to find a way of accurately covering farming.
4/07/2008 | Soil carbon must be recognised if agriculture is to be part of an emissions trading scheme, according to economist Professor Ross Garnaut, who today released a draft report into Australia's response to climate change.
4/07/2008 | Eastern states lamb slaughter during the 2007-08 financial year was 5pc above the previous year, following record lamb supply in 2007, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.
4/07/2008 | The vagaries around claiming flood insurance could be removed, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission proposing to grant conditional authorisation to the Insurance Council of Australia for a common definition of 'inland flood'.
4/07/2008 | Irrigators may not be familiar with the term "oxygation", but for cotton water use efficiency researcher, Lance Pendergast, it is a sub-surface drip irrigation system that has delivered 12–23pc yield increases.
4/07/2008 | The first-ever shipment of CBH's Grain Pool Integrated Quality barley has arrived in South America, delivering 25,000 tonnes of Baudin to the world's largest brewer, SABMiller.
4/07/2008 | Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has released new guidelines for the $8 million Mobile Connect program for 2008-2009, in a bid to extend coverage in rural and regional areas.