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SE can be Aust's future salad bowl
3:30 AM AEST | POPULATION pressure in traditional vegetable growing areas, water quality and good growing conditions all point to the Mount Gambier district being Australia's summer salad bowl.  | Random fruit fly roadblocks net ...Visit Stock Journal | Pt Augusta to boost local ...Visit Stock Journal
Govt commits $632m to GP shortage
3:00 AM AEST | THE understated difficulty in seeing a doctor in the bush underscored the Government's latest big health announcement to significantly boost training places for general practitioners.  | Nothing Rudd does is good ... | States push back against ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Something fishy about 60 Minutes ag chemicals story
19 Mar 10 | CHANNEL Nine program 60 Minutes is planning to run a story on chemical use within the Australian agriculture industry on Sunday night.  | Soy delivers benefits over ... | Fertiliser shortage on the cards | VIDEO: Ardrossan Angus sale hits ...
Irrigators hail on-farm funds as a win-win
19 Mar 10 | THE National Irrigators’ Council has welcomed the long-awaited announcement of the first round of funding for the Commonwealth Government’s $300 million On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program.  | Below average rainfall crimps ... | Wong blocks out irrigator ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Health from an eggshell
19 Mar 10 | ABOUT 60 years ago, Hollis Osborne bought a feed supply business at the border of Missouri and Arkansas and built it into one of the country's five largest commercial egg producers: Moark LLC.  | Buying organic to save planet? ... | Eggs, meat important to fetus | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Climate needs
19 Mar 10 | CAUGHT off-balance by the politicisation of climate science, Australia’s major climate agencies are trying to wrest the global warming debate away from opinion columns, blog sites and the front steps of Parliament House, and bring it all back to the science.  | CommentsComments (3) | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | 25% emissions cut at $4 a week ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Feds must step in to manage flood water
19 Mar 10 | THERE are calls for the Federal Government to step in and manage all big future floods, following confirmation this week of extra flows from the big Queensland wet to South Australia.  | Flood of promises to secure waterVisit Stock Journal | SA irrigators to receive ...Visit Stock Journal
El Niño conditions persist in Pacific
19 Mar 10 | SEA surface temperatures across the central tropical Pacific have shown little change over the past fortnight, and hence remain at levels typical of an El Niño event.  | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | Abbott carbon plan 'unworkable' | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Macquarie interest in grain business elevated
19 Mar 10 | DEREGULATION of the grain markets in Australia has sparked plenty of interest from offshore market participants.  | Trials prove strengths of durumVisit Stock Journal | Rain sets up winter crops ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Mt Gambier ...
Radio-savvy snakes used to spy on cane toads
19 Mar 10 | THE cane toad's impact on native snakes will be tracked by radio-transmitters surgically implanted in 20 wild pythons.  | Seven habits of highly ...Visit Farm Weekly | The toads are a-comin'...Visit Farm Weekly
Abandoned camp fire triggers bush blaze
19 Mar 10 | Careless campers were responsible for a bushfire that threatened a South West property, the Department of Environment and Conservation said.  | Bushfire threat remains for ...Visit Farm Weekly | Esperance farms in need of rainVisit Farm Weekly
Life in the shadow of coal central
19 Mar 10 | THE massive expansion of the mining industry in the Upper Hunter Valley is making people sick, say concerned residents who have campaigned for a decade for the government to establish independent air-quality monitoring and to conduct a proper health study.  | Caroona strikes back in Supreme ...Visit The Land | Wildlife park operators fear ...Visit The Land
Water falls short of pipeline promise
19 Mar 10 | A PROMISE to bring 75 billion litres to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline this year is likely to fall short, after meagre flows and multiple shutdowns have hampered the project's first weeks.  | Brumby gushes over pipe's water ...Visit Stock & Land | VFF calls for recycled water ...Visit Stock & Land
Town on alert as backburn races away
19 Mar 10 | A BUSHFIRE was within six kilometres of the central Victorian town of Raglan yesterday after a fuel-reduction burn jumped its containment lines.  | Fire service funding 'flawed'Visit Stock & Land | Duck-shooting fight is on for ...Visit Stock & Land
Tropical Cyclone Ului on the move: next stop QLD
19 Mar 10 | SEVERE Tropical Cyclone Ului continues to move slowly towards the QLD coast and is predicted to make landfall between Cardwell and Yeppoon sometime over the coming weekend.   | NT drying up | Tropical Cyclone Ului on the ...
Vic support of climate-altering tech talks slammed
19 Mar 10 | THE Victorian government is facing criticism for its headline support of an international conference promoting ''geo-engineering'' - controversial techniques to alter the climate in the event of catastrophic global warming.  | Brumby in the crosshairs as ...Visit Stock & Land | Victoria spared the summer that ...Visit Stock & Land
Web guide offers ways to cut food waste bill
19 Mar 10 | A KILOGRAM of meat can cost as little as $5, but few people realise the true ''paddock-to-plate'' cost of their food, say the creators of a new website designed to boost the nation's food IQ.  | CommentsComments (4) | By the buy: a tale of two ... | Food leader Senior Australian ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...
Abbott dare gets Rudd talking
19 Mar 10 | THE main parties were in furious preparation last night after Kevin Rudd accepted a challenge from Tony Abbott and called a leaders' debate for next Tuesday.  | Costello slams Abbott parent tax | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | GALLERY: Photos from SA's Mid North ...
Spencer wins his day in court
18 Mar 10 | HUNGER striking farmer Peter Spencer will finally have his property rights case heard in the High Court following a significant ruling in his favour last week.  | CommentsComments (11) | Farmers' rally gets brush-off ... | Peter Spencer prepares for ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...
Canada BSE had nothing to do with IRA
18 Mar 10 | THE Federal Government says the detection of a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Canada last month had nothing to do with its decision to toughen up quarantine requirements for beef imports.  | CommentsComments (4) | BSE beef backflip leaves US ... | Lift BSE beef ban or we'll ... | VIDEO: Turkey buys up Angus to ...
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12 Mar 10 | NATIONAL Farmers' Federation chief executive officer Ben Fargher has challenged the government to expand its probe into rural R&D. Here is his address to the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology national conference.
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Bingle bungle dents agent

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Hundreds stranded in Rotto

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