Residents are raising concerns over the gradual redevelopment of the Northern Territory's agricultural research stations.
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| UpdatedResidents are raising concerns over the gradual redevelopment of the Northern Territory's agricultural research stations.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, agricultural-crops, alice-springs-0870
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It's the end of an era for a south-west Victorian cattle stud.
Topics: beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, agribusiness, mortlake-3272, warrnambool-3280
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| UpdatedWhile farmers in Australia await an announcement on drought support, on the other side of the Pacific, Californian farmers are being offered emergency assistance.
Topics: drought, livestock-welfare, beef-cattle, agricultural-crops, weather, united-states
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| UpdatedThere's a gap emerging between stories of drought suffering leading to a debt crisis, and actual figures on foreclosures and bad loans from the banking industry
Topics: agricultural-prices, beef-cattle, banking, drought, sydney-2000, bourke-2840, longreach-4730
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In the United States authorities have issued guidelines to phase out the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in meat production due to concerns about the link between the over use of the drugs and the growth of resistant bacteria.
Topics: beef-cattle, foreign-affairs, rural, united-states
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| UpdatedCombating the increasing numbers of wild dogs is causing 'enormous social tension' within rural Queensland communities.
Topics: livestock, sheep-production, beef-cattle, brisbane-4000
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It hasn't broken the drought, but New South Wales farmers are welcoming a series of rain bands that have started to move across the state over the last week.
Topics: drought, rainfall, beef-cattle, sheep-production, agricultural-prices, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-crops, agricultural-policy, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedVictorian meat processors agree with farmers that the current state of the beef cattle market is depressing.
Topics: agribusiness, rural, beef-cattle, sale-3850
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| UpdatedIt's one of the biggest cattle drives in decades in Australia.
Topics: beef-cattle, livestock, rural, family-and-children, family, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedDrought-affected graziers in Queensland's central west are counting their blessings after massive overnight rains, while other farmers brace for rising floodwaters.
Topics: drought, rainfall, livestock, beef-cattle, rural, floods, agribusiness, alpha-4724, longreach-4730, thargomindah-4492, stonehenge-4730, springsure-4722, rockhampton-4700, toowoomba-4350, dalby-4405
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The Salvation Army's newest flying padre is preparing to take off on his first round of cattle station visits in the Northern Territory.
Topics: rural, religion-and-beliefs, beef-cattle, charities-and-community-organisations, katherine-0850
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Working in the same job for 30 years is bound to have its drudgery, but not for cattle-weigher Bev Geissler.
Topics: beef-cattle, work, women-in-agriculture, community-development, biggenden-4621
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| UpdatedThe Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is building a meatworks near Darwin.
Topics: rural, food-processing, agribusiness, business-economics-and-finance, beef-cattle, darwin-0800
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Farmers in the Liverpool Plains and the Upper Hunter say they are still in desperate straits and need drought assistance now.
Topics: drought, disasters-and-accidents, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, environmental-management, beef-cattle, sheep-production, agricultural-prices, agricultural-policy, sydney-2000, nsw, gloucester-2422
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Graziers are urging other producers across the country to have their say on the 56 million grass-fed beef levy.
Topics: federal-parliament, beef-cattle, drought, julia-creek-4823
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| UpdatedA memorial service will be held this weekend for Top End droving identity Lesley 'Tex' Moar, who died last week aged 96.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, pine-creek-0847
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Victorian graziers say the eastern beef market is in such a poor state that they are now receiving the same prices they were 25 years ago.
Topics: agribusiness, rural, agribusiness, rural, livestock, beef-cattle, cattle-feedlots, omeo-3898
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| UpdatedA study suggests grazing affects both the number and diversity of ants, by changing their habitat.
Topics: rural, beef-cattle, land-management, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, livestock, alice-springs-0870, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedNorthern cattle producers have got some choice this year about where to sell heavy stock.
Topics: rural, environmental-management, trade, beef-cattle, agribusiness, darwin-0800
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Cattle producers are trying to remain optimistic as the drought bites into central Queensland sales.
Topics: beef-cattle, agricultural-prices, rockhampton-4700
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Sleepless nights leading up to last week’s rain event have been replaced with peace of mind and optimism.
Topics: drought, environmental-management, climate-change, rainfall, beef-cattle, gundy-2337, muswellbrook-2333, sydney-2000, nsw
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A soil and pasture specialist says drought-affected areas could take up to five years to recover after it rains.
Topics: pasture, beef-cattle, drought, julia-creek-4823
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| UpdatedAs parts of Queensland's South Burnett region approach drought, one producer has found an original and very effective way of feeding his stock.
Topics: beef-cattle, vegetable-fruit-nuts, drought, murgon-4605
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Landholders affected by a deadly cattle illness in the western and Riverina regions of NSW have been told their properties won't be quarantined.
Topics: beef-cattle, veterinary-medicine, wagga-wagga-2650
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| UpdatedFirst it was table grapes, then onions, now a trial sorghum crop has been planted east of Alice Springs.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, beef-cattle, crop-harvesting, alice-springs-0870