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THREE inspiring women from regional New South Wales, including Dimity Smith from Tamworth, have been named finalists in the 2025 NSW-ACT AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award. This year, the spotlight is on the exceptional regional talent who have founded their own organisations and businesses, significantly contributing to the prosperity of regional and rural communities in NSW. [...]
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TACKLING pest and weed infestations between neighbouring public and private lands has been strengthened through The Good Neighbours Program and will undertake 21 initial projects, including management and control of Parthenium weed at Croppa Creek. The Good Neighbours projects will target pest animals and problem weeds, including feral deer, feral pigs, tropical soda apple and [...]
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WOMEN with leadership ambitions are urged to apply to the popular Diversity in Agriculture Leadership Program. The initiative is run by the National Farmers’ Federation and is now entering its eighth year. NFF President David Jochinke said more women are needed in the top echelons of agriculture organisations and businesses. “The NFF has set a [...]
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FARMERS from across New South Wales and the north-western area of the state are warning the march of a destructive cactus could be the beginning of a crisis unless ongoing funding for weed control is secured. NSW Farmers’ Croppa Creek and North Star branch chair, Richard Doyle, said farmers in the north of the state [...]
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NATIONALS leader, David Littleproud, says farmers and families have secured a huge cost-of-living win, after Labor was forced to bin its bad fresh food tax. Mr Littleproud said The Nationals’ successful motion in the Senate to remove Labor’s fresh food tax, known as the biosecurity protection levy, has allowed common sense to prevail. “Labor’s fresh [...]
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HERBICIDE spread by drone technology may soon become a standard method of controlling mimosa bush in north-western New South Wales, thanks to a trial currently being undertaken on travelling stock reserves in the Moree region. Dense thickets of mimosa bush (varchellia farnesiana) have long been an unwanted feature of the landscape around Moree and Warialda [...]
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COTTON Australia is launching six new resources for schools, with an aim to refresh the teaching approach through the delivery of a series of engaging and educational activity sets aligned to the design and technology, and science key learning areas of the Australian Curriculum. Three of the resources are aimed at Primary School (Years F [...]
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THE state’s peak agriculture body, NSW Farmers, is launching a series of free workshop for farmers looking to build resilience and forward-planning within their businesses, with the first workshop scheduled for Moree on February 11. The Moree workshop will be held between 6pm and 8.30pm at Moree Services Club. Funded by the NSW Farm Business [...]
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IN 1994, 26-year-old Moree boilermaker Donald Devney set about establishing his own welding and fabrication business. At the time, Moree – and the rest of eastern Australia – was experiencing one of the worst droughts in history. Mr Devney hitched his strides, tightened his belt a couple of notches, and figured the time was right. [...]
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THE NSW Government is calling for expressions of interest to participate in the next round of funding applications for the Australian Government’s National Water Grid Fund to help drought-proof water supplies and improve water security for country and regional New South Wales. Regional councils, local water utilities, irrigation water cooperatives and irrigation trusts, First Nations [...]
