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Top of the table WA olives
15/08/2008 | Dwarda Ridge Estate of Boddington, WA, won the Best WA Table Olive and Don Vica Pty Ltd of Fremantle won the Best of Show in the 2008 West Australian Olive Council Table Olive Competition.  | Olive growers move to lift quality | Peanut Company of Australia ...
Jackaroo's life spent on country roads leads to music stardom
8/08/2008 | In a way, Reg Lindsay was as Australian as a meat pie. He probably performed more than did any other entertainer and in more towns across the land — an extraordinary 340 towns in just one year.
Olive growers move to lift quality
7/08/2008 | The Australian Olive Association has signed off on an industry code of practice to promote quality, authenticity and confidence in the Australian olive industry.  | UK meets Australian organic ... | Small macadamia harvests: ...
Peanut Company of Australia posts third consecutive profit.
31/07/2008 | Queensland’s quiet achiever, the Kingaroy based Peanut Company of Australia Ltd has announced its third consecutive year of revenue and earnings growth at its AGM on Monday 28th July.
UK meets Australian organic industry in Sydney as market growth surges
31/07/2008 | The chair of the UK’s largest organic association and founder of iconic global brand Green & Blacks organic chocolate has given Australian industry insight into how to keep chemical-free momentum climbing.
Complementary medicines could fuel farm boom
29/07/2008 | The complementary medicine industry in Australia is booming, with Australians spending more than $3 billion annually products and consultations – and regional areas could be getting a slice of that pie.  | CommentsComments (1) | Rain in the west, cold in the east | $5m to improve efficiency of ...
Small macadamia harvests: prices lift marginally
24/07/2008 | With a swag of unfavourable weather conditions reducing the 2008 NSW macadamia crop and bringing the season to an early close, there are predictions the national $1.60 a kilogram farmgate price may lift an additional 10c/kg.  | CommentsComments (1) | Macadamia yields down | Byron Bay's gone a bit nutty
Farmer want a wife? RSVP launches rural dating service
23/07/2008 | Australia's largest online dating site, RSVP, has today launched a community designed especially for singles in regional and rural Australia.  | CommentsComments (3) | Kernaghan to headline the 2008 ... | Buttsworth wins national ...
Kernaghan to headline the 2008 Gympie Muster
22/07/2008 | The line-up of talent for the 2008 Toyota National Country Music Festival at Gympie, Qld, is set to fill this year's event with an outstanding array of entertainment for all ages.  | Peter cuts his way by hand to ... | El Questro goes on the block
Buttsworth wins national campdraft title
21/07/2008 | Kingaroy horseman Mark Buttsworth has taken out the Acton Super Beef Australian Campdraft Open Campdraft held outside of Rockhampton yesterday.  | Good rain falls across the country | Packer pays $28m for NT station
Draft organic standard out for public comment
15/07/2008 | Consumers can soon be confident that the organic products they choose are truly organic as the development of an Australian Standard for the organic and biodynamic industry nears completion.  | CommentsComments (4) | Chair of Aust's organic peak ... | New organic grain processing ...
Chair of Aust's organic peak body elected to world board
8/07/2008 | The chair of the Organic Federation of Australia, Andre Leu, has been elected onto the World Board of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.  | New organic grain processing ...
US immigrants fuel use of goats as profitable weed control
8/07/2008 | Goat meat is the most commonly eaten meat in the world and US immigrants don’t want to give it up when they move to the US. That is the very thing that has made goats into viable weed-control tools on American ranches.  | CommentsComments (1)
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Preference deals with the Greens - how will it play out in the Senate?

27/08/2008 | IF farmers are wondering what the new look Senate will mean for them, they should just take a look at politics in NSW and the behind-closed-doors relationship between Labor and the Greens for a taste of what might be in store Federally.
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