TASTY SOIL: Botanic Gardens horticulturists Lynda-Joy Dunlea and Darryl Coombes with a handful of topsoil and worms.

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WATCHING your crops and land fall away into a river bank can be heartbreaking for growers and producers.

SOI remains low in dry season

Coming to Life: Marine life on the artifical Simpson Reef. Contributed / Garry Pomroy.

Clermont grain grower a reef champion

HIGH FLIER: Choppers have long been used to muster cattle, but drones are the new and smaller-cousins working in the paddock.

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Next time you drink a glass of cheap milk, think about the consequences.

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Dairy call to buy local

DESPITE the international milk market being in turmoil from over-pasteurisation, New South Wales north coast producers are in a steady state.

Drones have been portrayed in the media as strange UFO-type invasive technology

Different view drones used in feedlot

The campaign is also aimed at increasing kids’ understanding of where their food and fibre comes from.

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Grain growers can attend field walks in the western downs to learn the latest on farming systems

Take a field walk for improved farming systems

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Monto Cattle and Country's first sale for the year was a cracker. Photo: Emily Smith / Central and North Burnett Times

Roma yearling steers up 12c/kg

A TOTAL of 5050 head were yarded on Tuesday at Roma store sale, 3929 fewer than the previous week.

Steers top 306c/kg

A SMALLER yarding of 3162 cattle came to hand at Gracemere sale comprising 1884 steers, 229 cows, 939 heifers, 34 bulls and 76 cows and calves.

Feeder steers sell strongly

BURNETT Livestock and Realty’s meatworks and store sale on Monday, August 24, saw a yarding of 1702 head.

Short supply boosts price

THE short supply of prime cattle boosted prices across all categories of suitable consignments in Roma last week, Thursday August 13.

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Ban to impact on vegetable growers

PAPUA New Guinea has banned the importation of select Australian fruits and vegetables ahead of a plan to support their domestic growers.

Here's your chance to have your say on a new and improved conduct for horticulture

Growers’ chance to speak about horticulture code

GRANTS of $400,000 have been provided to agribusinesses in the Murray-Darling Basin to support new horticulture projects.

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GROWERS and industry representatives are invited to the official launch of Hort360, a whole of farm business health check.

Hort360 a health check for the farm

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GLOBAL TASTE: Trevor Steinhardt and his family supply macadamia nuts to the world.

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Aus confidence up for grains

THE global and domestic market is getting more and more confident there will be a sizeable Australian wheat, barley and chickpea crop in the bin by December 20.

DESPITE storm activities last week, crushing continued uninterrupted for week nine, with 69,161 tonnes processed through the mill.

CCS climbs in week nine of crush

JENNY Cameron from Reptrix Reptiles has warned Rockhampton residents not to come between mating coastal taipans.

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IN THE past week we have witnessed a dramatic drop in world sugar prices that has seen them fall to a seven-year low.

Sugar prices sour

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Fraser Coast tourism increase double Gold Coast's

DESPITE domestic tourism data released in March showing interstate visitation to the Fraser Coast had dropped 11.4%, visitor expenditure was up 22%.

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THE Fraser Coast does not need skyscrapers or waves to lure tourists - the region's increase in international visitors Or silly people making fake pregnancy video's so it seems.

WHAT began as a call for the government to “spring into action” over CSG quickly became a call to cancel the region’s licences after a Metgasco announcement.

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WHEN Larry Barron and Rachael Diplock bought 160 acres of land, they had their family in mind.

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FOREIGN investors are being courted with a $3 billion suite of Central Queensland agribusiness and related infrastructure investment opportunities.

Agriculture the long term future for Central Queensland

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NBN WAIT: Patchy internet connections have Gladstone residents hanging out for the NBN which will be fixed line with construction starting this year.

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