Tag: Australiafarming
Australian producers can search, sort and compare hundreds of available AgTech products with just a few clicks of the mouse thanks to a new digital platform, AgTech Finder (www.agtechfinder.com). Launched today (Thursday), AgTech Finder is an independent site...
Severe sweats; aching muscles and joints; flu-like symptoms and extreme fatigue – that’s what farmers can expect to experience if they contract the potentially deadly Q Fever. Farmers and others who work with livestock are most at risk...
As of this week, New South Wales has the toughest farm trespass laws in Australia. In a shake-up of the state’s Biosecurity Act animal rights “vigilantes” who trespass on private farming property will now face an on-the-spot fines...
There may not be rain on the horizon for drought-stricken communities, but they can expect funding as soon as 2020. Earlier this week, the new $5 billion Future Drought Fund was passed with bipartisan support in the House...
Chemical giant Bayer says it plans to invest about $5.6 billion over the next decade in developing “additional methods to combat weeds.” The move comes a year after the acquisition of chemical company Monsanto, which brought with it...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison threw his support behind the
National Farmers’ Federation’s (NFF) vision of a $100 billion ag industry by
2030 in his address at the Bush Summit in Dubbo, NSW this week. In a wide-ranging speech to the...
On this day, 19 July, in 1979, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) was established to represent the interests of all Australian farmers. Since its inception in 1979, the NFF has earned a formidable reputation as a leader in...
Australia has joined forces with Brazil and Guatemala taking on India in a sugar cane subsidy dispute. Last year India, the world’s second most populated nation after China, implemented subsidies for their sugarcane farmers causing a dire sugar...
Australia’s agriculture industry has united in outrage over an ABC 4Corners program which painted an unbalanced and inaccurate picture of the Murray Darling Basin Plan’s management. 4Corners sought
to discredit the plan’s irrigation efficiency program, which
supported farmers...
Individuals who encourage trespass, property damage or theft on farm land could soon face up to five years jail. Protecting farmers from radical extremists was one of the first orders of business for the newly-elected Government with...
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