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Mary Berry, Queen of Cakes, hosting The Great British Garden Party

Beautiful gardens, tea and cake, and a few pounds raised for charity at the same time — what could be more British? James Fisher reports. The Great British Garden Party will begin next week and everyone’s invited, says the nation’s ‘Queen of Cakes’ Mary Berry. The fundraising event, organised by the National Garden Scheme (NGS), will […]

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Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 12 July 2023

At the beginning of the week an upper level trough and associated cloud band brought widespread weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 50mm across Queensland, with some isolated falls between 50 to 100mm. Several sites along the northern and south-east coast of Queensland recorded their highest daily July rainfall on record. A succession of cold […]

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Roma sale 11 July: Yarding lifts by 4702

Yarding 7665 Change +4702 Agents at Roma penned 7665 cattle for yesterday’s weekly store sale – an increase of 4702 head. Cattle were drawn from far western QLD, NSW with the majority from the local supply area which included excellent runs of well bred yearling steers and heifers. All the regular feeder and restocker buyers […]

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Soil carbon credits starting to flow with another project awarded

The Fysh project at Mount Tom, near Gladstone, has become the fourth to receive carbon credits for sequestering carbon in its soil. AUSTRALIA’S largest carbon soil carbon developer, AgriProve, has become the latest to receive Australian Carbon Credit Units, with 3,559 ACCUs issued to a project in Central Queensland. The Fysh Carbon Project at Mount Tom […]

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