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Agforce announces seven sub-committees – Beef Central

QUEENLAND’S peak agricultural group Agforce has announced a long list of sub-committees to help formulate policy positions in different areas. General president  announced the committees on the organisation’s website. “As General President, when I am advocating on behalf of members and wider industry to the key decision-makers, it makes my job a lot easier to […]

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US docuseries pitching cattle as “climate solution”

A NEW docuseries called “roots so deep you can see the devil down there” is being released in United States looking at grazing practices that store carbon in soil. Prof Peter Byck from Arizona State University has been drumming up publicity on the four part series about grazing practices he says were invented by “the […]

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Jason Goodwin: They’ve started measuring distances in minutes. But what of loitering and lingering? What of the flowers of the wayside and the hill views?

Jason Goodwin rages against the sign-erecting quangos who are helping tourists miss the point. Imagine, for one moment, that you are not a wise and gentle reader of Country Life, but foolish and hot-tempered, and find yourself waiting in line at a dispensary. The chemist says something you find hard to understand, to which, gentle […]

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US government delivers $115m in support for smaller meat processors

SMALLER meat and poultry processors in 17 US States will receive US$115 million (A$150m) in grants, the US Department of Agriculture announced last week, as the agency “continues efforts to shift a decades-long trend in consolidation in food production.” The investment comes two years after 40 percent of US beef processing capacity was lost for […]

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Weekly kill: Slim got it right

“WHEN the rain tumbles down in July,” country music legend, the late Slim Dusty sang in his immortal ballad, and this year at least, he got it right. Beef processors across large parts of eastern Australia are facing unseasonal challenges with cattle supply this week, as paddocks become too wet to muster and some access […]

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