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Lower Lakes almost mission impossible: Senate
11/10/2008 | The Murray-Darling is so starved of water that it may not be possible to save South Australia's parched Coorong wetlands and lower lakes, says a Senate committee report.  | Obama vs McCain on their plans ...Rising cost of food rates high ...
Rivers need good luck, good management
11/10/2008 | Victoria's stressed northern rivers will require good fortune and wily management to benefit from increased environmental flows, after the State Government's major water document of 2008 failed to guarantee new sources of water for waterways like the Murray and Goulburn rivers.  | Rising cost of food rates high ...Aust wool market 0.9pc higher
Black Friday: Panic grips global markets
11/10/2008 | Panic has gripped world sharemarkets amid the prospect of a prolonged global recession, with no end in sight to a rout that is threatening to eclipse that of 1987.  | Livestock markets boosted by A$Black Friday on the sharemarket
Rudd forced to guarantee bank savings
11/10/2008 | Kevin Rudd has been forced to reassure consumers that their bank savings are sound as the Opposition demanded the Government underwrite every account containing up to $100,000 in case a bank collapses.  | Black Friday on the sharemarketAust wool market 0.9pc higher
Obama vs McCain on their plans for ag
11/10/2008 | Farm Progress, a Rural Press/Fairfax Media subsidiary in the United States, posed a series of agricultural policy questions to the Obama and McCain camps. This is an extract of what the two men vying for the most powerful job in the world had to say about farming, fertiliser and fuel for American farmers…….  | Why Aussie farmers need McCainWine sales show signs of recovery
Rising cost of food rates high on list of consumer concerns
10/10/2008 | New research shows the rising cost of food is among the three greatest consumer concerns in the United States today.  | Monsanto USA reports net income ...It's World Egg Day - crack the ...
Black Friday on the sharemarket
10/10/2008 | Australian shares cratered, recording the steepest falls in what is already a dismal year and dragging the value of the benchmark share index below $1 trillion as the market headed for its worst week since the 1987 collapse.  | Global economic meltdown hits ...Aussie shares follow Wall ...
10/10/2008 | Monsanto USA achieved net income of $US2 billion for fiscal 2008, up from $US993 million the pervious year.
Aussie shares follow Wall Street plunge
10/10/2008 | Australian shares fell to a new three-year low, dragging the value of the benchmark share index below $1 trillion.
Global economic meltdown hits farm prices
10/10/2008 | Global prices for grains and other farm produce have softened dramatically in recent months and farmers are starting to question how they will fare if the economic slowdown hits their profits just as they begin to emerge from drought.
It's World Egg Day - crack the big one
10/10/2008 | It's World Egg Day today – a day to raise awareness about the outstanding nutritional benefits of eggs and to recognise this versatile and tasty ingredient.
Burke's new backyard at Gunn's pulp mill
10/10/2008 | Celebrity television gardener, Don Burke, is already uncomfortable in what he said was a new job as Gunns Limited's paid "honest broker" for its environmentally challenged Tasmanian pulp mill.
$10,000 rural journalism scholarship up for grabs
10/10/2008 | Time is running out for applications for the inaugural $10,000 J.B. Fairfax Award for Rural Journalism.
10/10/2008 | Rural exports are one of the few bright spots in the Australian economy this week in what has otherwise been a bloodbath in the global financial markets with a plummeting dollar set to significantly increase the value of farm export commodities like wool, wheat, sugar and dairy.
$6m computer program to link Murray surface and ground water
9/10/2008 | The Federal Government will spend $6 million on a new modelling tool to help manage the surface and ground water of the Murray-Darling Basin.  | CommentsComments (3) | Why Aussie farmers need McCainWine sales show signs of recovery
Share market slumps to 3-year low
9/10/2008 | The Australian share market closed at a three-year low, dragged down by banks and energy producers on fears that the co-ordinated interest rate cuts by central banks won't prevent a global recession.  | CommentsComments (1) | Water buy-back boiloverMarket freefall resumes again
Aussie Halal brand goes global
9/10/2008 | The Halal brand that was developed last year by Meat and Livestock Australia for use in the Middle East red meat market has now gone global.
Average farmer saves $3000 from interest rate cut
9/10/2008 | Provided the rural banks pass on Tuesday's 1pc interest rate cut in full, the average Australian farmer should save $4000 on their mortgage each year.  | Global rescue: banks cut ratesRates cut but will farmers reap ...
Why Aussie farmers need McCain
9/10/2008 | The global economic crisis and the ongoing war in Iraq underline why many analysts think next month's American presidential election will be the most significant in a generation, but for Aussie farmers it is Republican candidate John McCain's trade record that is in focus.  | CommentsComments (5) | Russia the place to beefDespair as market, dollar plummet
Water buy-back boilover
9/10/2008 | Irrigators like Tony Wass have been navigating the minefield that is water reform for more than a decade, but he said proposals to change the trading rules for water being sold out of irrigation schemes will bring the industry to its knees.  | Elmore smiles on hopes of a ...Renowned Steam Plains dispersal ...
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6/10/2008 | In journalism there is nothing worse than interviewing someone with TB - True Believerism. But the rapidly changing world is turning traditional ideology upside down, leaving TB sufferers supporting a brand and not a belief.
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