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Water buyback's social pain defended

As the water purchasing tender opens under the Bridging the Gap initiative, to buy another 49.2 GL from irrigators to meet the Murray-Darling Basin Plan quota, the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is defending its processes. Click to check the original article.

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Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 29 Mar 2023

Showers and rain continued across the tropical north. Intense rain and thunderstorms affected eastern NSW and northern Victoria during the week, and western parts of Western Australia late in the week. The highest weekly total at a Bureau gauge was 197.0 mm at Topaz Alert (Queensland), while the highest daily total at Bureau gauge was […]

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Roma sale 28 Mar 2023: Quality improves in smaller yarding

Yarding 5600  Change   -1200 Cattle were mostly sourced from south west Queensland but included over 1000 head from northern NSW. Overall quality improved and while light weight restocker steers eased on last week, medium weight steers and most classes of heifers saw improvements. Heavy grown steers and good heavy cows both saw gains of 10-15c/kg. […]

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Rural Press Club breakfast to explore role of aid-funded ag research

John Anderson AC FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson AC will chair a panel session at a breakfast in Brisbane on April 20 exploring the important role Australian funded agricultural research plays in underpinning food security in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the often unseen benefits of that research back to Australia. Recent ‘Doing […]

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