BEEF Australia has again thrown its support behind the Graeme Acton Beef Connections Program, which aims develop the future leaders of Australia’s beef industry The 2023-24 mentoring program will offer a unique 14-month course of knowledge development and skill application, and pair participants with industry recognised mentors to help them deliver on a project that […]

An Spanish traveller to Australia has paid the price for failing to declare biosecurity risk items. Travellers trying to enter Australia with prohibited food products in 2023 are being hit with the country’s toughest biosecurity infringements under new measures introduced to protect Australian agriculture from foot and mouth disease and other threats. Last October, the […]

Flooding at Desmond Station, which has recorded 198mm since Friday. Photo: Christian Stanton Cormack THE wet season has well and truly reached Queensland, with some stations recording falls of more than 200mm across the weekend. Weekly sales at Charters Towers, Gracemere, Emerald and Sarina have been cancelled and dozens of roads, including the Flinders and […]

Not all protein sources are created equal, when it comes human digestibility. 10 grams of protein from one source can be vastly different in terms of nutritional value for humans compared to 10 grams from another source. And, generally speaking, proteins from plant sources are less digestible for humans than proteins from animal sources. This […]