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Feedgrain Focus: South firms as rain limits trade

Conditions of wheat crops across Australia are mixed this year, with this crop of Vixen wheat at Badgingarra in WA among the better ones. Photo: Luke Freeman, Hi-Tech Ag Solutions PRICES for feedgrain were mostly steady in the northern market and firmer in the south as trading interest migrates to new-crop slots. While exporters have […]

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Chongqing Hot Glass Noodle Broth Recipe by Eleanor Ford

Chongqing hot glass noodle broth Serves 2 One can’t consider chillies without visiting Sichuan, China’s spiciest region. It was here that the fruits first blazed into the country having crossed over the Himalayas, and here where they are used most keenly, combined with the piquancy of native Sichuan peppercorns. This lip-puckering hot-and-sour broth comes from […]

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Meat processors poaching competitors’ staff with financial inducements

CREDIBLE reports have emerged over the past week of Queensland red meat processors offering significant financial inducements for meatworker staff employed elsewhere to leave their current place of work. In further signs of the desperate state labour resourcing has reached in the Australian processing industry, one claim put to Beef Central last week suggested targets […]

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Australian experts to strengthen international animal health

The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer (OCVO) has seconded four staff to work overseas – one at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Samoa and three at the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) headquarters in France. The secondments build on the Australian Government’s efforts to support animal health with our near neighbours […]

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