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S4 Ep8: Beef 2024 chairman Bryce Camm

  With the countdown to the Australian beef industry’s Beef 2024 event now down to seven weeks, podcast host Kerry Lonergan this week chats with event chairman Bryce Camm. More than 100,000 Australian and international meat and livestock industry stakeholders are expected to pass through the Rocky Showgrounds for the six-day event starting May 6. […]

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Biden budget plan seeks boost to USDA funding

On Monday, President Biden released his fiscal year 2025 budget for the federal government. The budget asks for a 7.4% increase in funding for “discretionary” activities at USDA, trailing only the Department of Energy’s 7.5% boost among cabinet-level agencies. The Environmental Protection Agency also would see a large increase of 8.4%, leading non-cabinet agencies. Biden’s […]

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A drive through the seaside town of Victor Harbor

This house has been waiting for me,” Tania Norman says as she recalls a conversation she recently had with a tradesperson. Tania first fell in awe of her new home when she and her husband, Kieth, went for a drive 20 years ago. A drive through the seaside town of Victor Harbor: “We drove past […]

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Agforce take Federal Govt to court over GAB carbon capture

AGFORCE has filed court proceedings against Federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek after months of opposition to a proposed plan to inject waste CO2 into the Great Artesian Basin. Mining giant Glencore, through its subsidiary Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation,  has been progressing through approvals for its plan to truck waste CO2 from the Millmerran Power […]

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Queensland buyers weaner buying spree in NSW | The Land

Don Ward, Mooreland sold 42 Brahman cross cattle, which in the breakdown, his best sold for 322.2c/kg (both pens weighing 357kg and 292kg), that also went to Queensland. He also sold heifers with the top fetching 240c/kg, or $710.99, weighing 296kg to which stayed locally at Clybucca. Click to check the original article.

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Erika Marsh took a bold leap when she moved to the bush

Erika Marsh took a bold leap when she moved to the bush, say yes to every invitation. That was the sage advice Erika Marsh accepted when she moved from all that was familiar in Brisbane almost 1200 kilometres north-west to Longreach in outback Queensland. The newly graduated speech pathologist had grown up in Brisbane and […]

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