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La Nina may weaken this winter | The Outlook | The Land

Once the current spell of usually cool, clear days (which has been a temporary synoptic aberration but one that is likely to be repeated a few times during winter) comes to an end shortly, the increase in cloud cover that is likely to follow will result in average to below average maximum temperatures, though minimums […]

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Weather woes as market slows

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) recently released its June report, tipping Australia to produce its fourth largest winter crop on record at 50.9 million tonnes. Click to check the original article.

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Harvest drags on for summer croppers in wake of big wet | The Land

Gregor Heard is Fairfax Ag Media’s national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his ten years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported […]

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Ocean Shipping Reform Act heads to President

After nearly a year since first introduced, on Monday night the House passed by a vote of 369 to 42 the Senate’s version of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act, drawing widespread praise from agricultural groups who have seen ag exports drop by an estimated $25 billion over the last six months due to shipping constraints. […]

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