Agriculture coverage
Agriculture
ELDERS Limited advises it has entered into an agreement with Australian Meat Group to sell 100 per cent of shares held in Killara Feedlot, about 13 kilometres north-east of Quirindi, for total consideration of approximately $195.8 million. Killara operates as an integrated grain-fed and grass-fed beef production facility in the Liverpool Plains region of New [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ says plans to pollute rural and regional communities with Sydney’s rubbish should be immediately rejected. The proposed Parkes Incinerator would burn 700,000 tonnes of Sydney’s red-bin rubbish each year if approved, and NSW Farmers’ vice-president, Rebecca Reardon, said it was totally unacceptable to force any regional community to be the dumping ground for [...]
Agriculture
GUNNEDAH Shire Council will meet with key stakeholders from across the northern basin on Thursday to collaborate on submissions for the 2026 Murray-Darling Basin Plan Review. This is the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s first major review of the Plan, implemented in 2012, and Gunnedah Shire councillor and Murray Darling Association Region 11 chair Robert Hoddle said [...]
Agriculture
AUSTRALIAN Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences’ flagship annual conference will be held on March 3-4 at Hotel Realm, Canberra, as well as online. With the theme Reset. Rethink. Regrow: Cultivating Tomorrow’s Opportunities, the conference will explore what will shape Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry into the future. ABARES executive director, Dr Jared [...]
Agriculture
A one-time cashback offer is available for NSW Murray Darling Basin water-users who have installed, or are soon to install, state-of-the-art water monitoring devices to meet their compliance obligations. Landholders can apply for a $1000 or $2000 reimbursement if they extract water from groundwater, or regulated or unregulated river sources in the Murray Darling Basin [...]
Agriculture
HIRINGA Energy near Wathagar Gin, west of Moree, will receive $9.4 million to expand the production of low carbon ammonia fertiliser – to be used on cotton farms – as part of $52 million in grants from the NSW Government to supercharge renewable manufacturing sectors, and unlock more than 100 construction jobs and 67 ongoing [...]
Agriculture
FED-UP farmers and families facing poor regional, rural and remote mobile services are being encouraged to keep complaining. The latest report from the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman revealed an increase in complaints in NSW, with almost a quarter coming from regional areas. Sarah Thompson from the NSW Farmers Rural Affairs Committee said the stats reflected what [...]
Agriculture
COTTON picking kicked off in central Queensland earlier this month, with the first crops producing average results in what is shaping up to be a steady season despite mixed conditions, reports Cotton Australia. The first to pick were Emerald growers Denis and Aaron Kiely, who began picking their 71-hectare cotton crop on Wednesday, February 4. [...]
Environment
NEW science has revealed some of the Gwydir Wetlands’ iconic coolabahs and river red gums are up to 500 years old. The joint NSW DCCEEW and University of Newcastle study is the first of its kind in the state, providing a rare long-term record of how changing water flows and climate have shaped the floodplain [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ has presented the state government with a range of improvements the organisation says need to be made to firearms regulations. NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin said the sudden, sweeping changes to firearms laws made without consultation created adverse and unintended consequences, while ongoing uncertainty caused big problems for food and fibre producers. But [...]
