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Farm Progress America, October 25, 2023

Mike Pearson tells us how soybean growers will have many more buyers in the years to come. It’s in part thanks to more processing centers being built across the country. The American soybean industry can handle soybeans in three ways: Storage: Dry soybeans, then keep them on the farm or in grain elevator for months […]

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NFF workforce law campaign criticised in Senate Estimates

Minister for Agriculture Murray Watt criticised an NFF campaign and defended new workforce legislation. AUSTRALIA’S Agriculture Minister Murray Watt has criticised a National Farmers Federation campaign against proposed workforce law amendments in a Senate Estimates hearing this week. And chair of the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, Labor Senator Glenn Sterle has […]

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Four of Britain’s biggest Nature charities join the fight against ‘Greenwashing’

Four of the nation’s largest conservation charities have joined forces to encourage responsible private investment in Nature recovery and to combat ‘corporate greenwashing’. James Fisher reports. The Wildlife Trusts, the RSPB, the Woodland Trust and the National Trust have jointly published Nature Markets Principles, which they believe will combat a ‘lack of regulation’ for the […]

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NT Landholders exhausted with bushfires burning for two months

Fires have been burning across large parts of the Northern Territory for the past two months. Photo: Nicole Hayes MILLIONS of hectares have been burnt across Northern Australia this year, with many fires still active in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Some fires have been burning for more than a month, stretching the […]

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