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Former chief scientist says better carbon communication is needed

AUSTRALIA’S former chief scientist says the country’s carbon industry needs to improve its communication to maintain trust in the wider community. Professor Ian Chubb recently headed up a review of the framework underpinning Australian Carbon Credit Units – which ultimately found the scheme to be of high integrity and did not recommend any large sweeping […]

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Wilmot, Macdoch chair says more “suits” need to see farms

ONE of agriculture’s most prolific investors in recent years has delivered a call to arms at this week’s Wilmot field day, calling on more “suits” to visit farmland. Alasdair Macleod is the executive chair of the Macdoch group, which owns Wilmot Cattle Company, a series of agtech companies including Maia Grazing and FarmBot and this […]

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v2food to close Wodonga plant

v2food sells a range of meat alternatives at supermarkets across the country. Photo: v2food AUSTRALIA’S highest-profile plant-based meat company, v2food, has plans to close its manufacturing facility at Wodonga. The news comes following the departure late last year of v2food founder and CEO Nick Hazell, who is now focused on other start-up opportunities. Launched in […]

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Kay’s Cuts: New US packing plant pipe dreams

A monthly column written for Beef Central by US meat and livestock industry commentator, Steve Kay, publisher of US Cattle Buyers Weekly       WHO doesn’t dream of building a new, state-of-the art beef processing plant? As it happens, plenty of people in the US do. Spurred by the perceived lack of slaughter capacity […]

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Motivations of Wieamabilla siege perpetrators Gareth Train, Stacey Train and Nathaniel Train revealed by investigators | Queensland Country Life

Queensland Police Service Deputy Commissioner Tracy Linford released new evidence nine weeks on from the December 12 siege, where Gareth Train, his partner Stacey Train and brother Nathaniel Train, shot and killed Constables Matthew Arnold, 26 and Rachel McCrow, 29, as well as neighbour Alan Dare, 58. Click to check the original article.

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