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eNewsletter - Volume 72 |
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GrainCorp will form a new grain accumulation team and AGA will continue as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Australia. |
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Fly numbers have slashed by using two natural enemies - a parasitic wasp and a fly-killing fungus. |
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Inland fishers are being reminded that the use of opera house style yabby traps is banned. |
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For fantastic entertainment all year round, you can't beat a day at the Country Races. |
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| Featured Website - Get Regional |
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Get Regional is the new information and referral service for people living and working throughout country Australia. |
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| AWI easing the pain of vet chemical registration |
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AWI is not funding Bayer's research. |
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| Australian Organic Roadshows 2009 - Ready to Roll! |
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The latest in organic industry developments are all on offer at the 2009 Organic Roadshows! |
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| Cattle risk lameness in wet North Coast conditions |
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Dairy cattle on the north coast are suffering sore feet in all the rain. |
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| Featured Business - TCT Australia |
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TCT Australia Pty Limited is an Australian education and trading company specializing in Accelerated Learning Programs and Real Time Trading. |
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| New Riverina vegetable specialist based at Yanco |
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A new Department of Primary Industries (DPI) horticultural extension officer specialising in vegetable production has started work at Yanco. |
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| All hands required to complete mammoth fencing task |
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Two months on, Victorian Farmers Federation re-fencing volunteers remain hard at work, with more help urgently needed to complete the mammoth task. |
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| Limited dry sowing commences |
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Limited dry sowing has commenced in the Upper North, with farmers in many districts likely to commence sowing crops regardless of rainfall. |
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| Featured Product - Onesteel Waratah - Thumpa™ pneumatic Star® post driver |
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Drive Waratah® steel posts into most terrain faster and with ease using the air powered Thumpa™ pneumatic Star® post driver. |
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| WA organ and tissue donors honoured |
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Sixty-eight names were placed on Western Australia’s Donor Honour Board during a ceremony honouring the memory of people who have left behind the legacy of life by donating. |
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| 1,000,000 hectares of critical regrowth under moratorium |
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A move to implement a moratorium on the potential clearing of over a million hectares of endangered regrowth vegetation. |
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| Managing our natural resources starts in the schoolyard |
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Teaching more sustainable use of our water, land and other environmental resources needs to start early. |
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| Featured Special Offer - Flip Promotions - April Specials up to 70% off
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Latest specials for April. These are run out items which have been heavily discounted – up to 70% off the original list prices! |
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| National Waste Policy Consultation paper released |
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Minister Peter Garrett released a consultation paper: A National Waste Policy: Managing Waste to 2020 for public review and comment. |
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| RBA decision signals housing stability |
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The Real Estate Institute of Australia described the decision by the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates by only 0.25% as a pointer to increased stability for home buyers. |
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| Governement vegetation moratorium unwarranted |
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The Queensland Farmers’ Federation believes that the agricultural community has been delivered yet another body blow. |
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| Featured Profile - Tom Keene - Chairman - NACMA |
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The NSW Farmers’ Association has offered its congratulations to the new Chair of the National Agricultural Commodities Marketing Association (NACMA), well-known grains industry identity Tom Keene. |
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| New horticulture industry Award released |
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The Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) has released the Stage 2 award, including the new ‘modern’ Horticulture Industry Award. |
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| Genomics offer five-year short-cut to bull proving |
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The biggest improvement in dairy breeding since frozen semen will see bull proving times cut by up to five years. |
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| Sole database for lower cost, better service |
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The Australian dairy industry should manage its herd data using a single integrated database. |
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| Featured Organisation - CFS urging outdoor fire safety |
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The Country Fire Service (CFS) and the Department for Environment and Heritage (DEH) are encouraging South Australians who are planning to go camping to consider their obligations when lighting barbeques and campfires. |
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| Property rights Australia |
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The erosion of private property rights is the single biggest issue facing the rural community. |
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| UDV contacts factories on price drop |
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The United Dairyfarmers of Victoria, the dairy commodity of the Victorian Farmers Federation, has welcomed assurances from Murray Goulburn and Fonterra Australia that they will not be announcing further milk price drops to June 30. |
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| Cattle tick threat in Longreach thwarted |
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A cattle tick threat in Longreach has been successfully thwarted. |
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| NFF kills 100% cost hike for farmers under new Award |
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The National Farmers’ Federation has recorded an historic victory in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. |
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| Rudd backs Chinese agriculture package, now its time he backed Australian farmers |
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NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash wants an Aussie farmer-friendly stimulus package. |
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| Rust alert for North Coast soybean growers |
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An outbreak of the foliar disease leaf rust is threatening the North Coast’s bumper soybean crop due to be harvested in coming weeks. |
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