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Spanish mackerel fishers call for compensation

Queensland’s Agriculture Department will consider options to alleviate the impacts on Spanish mackerel commercial entitlement holders impacted by the announcement that commercial quotas are set to be slashed by 80 per cent. Click to check the original article.

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Wallaby meat detected at Brisbane Airport | Queensland Country Life

While FMD affects all cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle, buffalo, camelids (alpacas, llamas and camels), sheep, goats, deer and pigs, it can also infect Australian wildlife species, including kangaroos, Bennett’s wallaby, wombats, possums, bandicoots, potoroo, water rat, brown marsupial mouse and echidna. Click to check the original article.

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Farmers need the right tools says Croplife Australia | Farm Weekly

“Whether it’s new innovation, fertiliser, new crop protection products, whether they be organics, synthetic or biological, whether they be new crop breed varieties, whether it’s done through GM, conventional breeding or gene editing…that’s where we need a slightly more sophisticated and data-based discourse around farming,” Mr Cossey said. Click to check the original article.

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Industry demands grain supply chain update | Farm Weekly

Co-signed by CBH, WAFarmers, WA Grains Group and the Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association of WA, the letter explained that in order to optimise grain value for WA growers and attract a price premium, the supply chain needed to be able to maximise grain exports in the first-half of the calendar year. Click to check the […]

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YOUR SAY: In praise for proactive Nuffield Scholars | The North West Star

Congratulations to Jarrod Cook and Regan Lynch, who join 17 other aspiring young agricultural leaders as 2023 Nuffield Scholars (“Nuffield Scholarships for North West residents”, North West Star, 15/9). It seems fitting that, in 2023, more women than ever will join the prestigious Nuffield program and that topics centre on sustainability in agriculture. As we […]

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White House actions target livestock concentration

During a White House Competition Council meeting on Sept. 26, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced USDA is publishing a proposed rule updating the Packers and Stockyards Act including changes to contract formation in the livestock sector. USDA also announced $15 million to partner with state attorneys general on the enforcement of competition laws, such as the laws […]

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