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Milk production falls as dairy crisis hits
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Australian milk production is tipped to fall to 20-year lows as dairy crisis hits.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, food-processing, shepparton-3630, warrnambool-3280, sale-3850
Farmers make deal with supermarket over milk support package
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Relationship not a friendship: Victorian Farmers Federation enters a deal with Coles to release a new 'Farmer Fund' milk.
Topics: livestock, dairy-production, food-and-beverage, food-processing, agricultural-policy, agribusiness, agricultural-prices, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000, sale-3850, warrnambool-3280, horsham-3400
Multilingual lamb ads in celebration of diversity
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A new-look marketing campaign for the sheep industry is planning to push the boundaries of advertising in Australia, all in the interest of promoting diversity.
Topics: livestock, sheep-production, agribusiness, agricultural-marketing, shepparton-3630, melbourne-3000
Wine industry finds another tool to open up industry
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Viticulturists will soon have access to an app that can help them manage their vineyards.
Topics: viticulture, science-and-technology, weather, wagga-wagga-2650
Australian rice executives in PNG battling new import quota
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SunRice executives travel to Papua New Guinea to fight the government's decision to impose a 20 per cent import quota on the Australian company.
Topics: rice, trade, agricultural-policy, agribusiness, leeton-2705, papua-new-guinea, pacific
Farmers make a meal of foods that are illegal to sell
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Victorian farmers speak out against regulations that prohibit small-scale producers from slaughtering beef on-farm.
Topics: rural, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, food-safety, food-processing, everton-3678
Cheap milk sales plummet after dairy crisis
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Australian consumers are spending more money on milk in an effort to support struggling dairy farmers.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, food-processing, food-and-beverage, shepparton-3630, cohuna-3568, melbourne-3000
Grain market watching South America's production
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What can pull grain prices out of the doldrums?
Topics: grain, wagga-wagga-2650
Lake Hume spill likely within weeks
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Forecasted rain for south east Australia has water authorities warning the Lake Hume water storage will spill within three weeks.
Topics: irrigation, murray-darling-basin, shepparton-3630, albury-2640, hume-weir-3691
Dairy crisis hitting farmers around the globe
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European farmers are divided in trying to find a solution to the global low milk price dairy crisis.
Topics: dairy-production, livestock, agricultural-prices, agricultural-subsidies, agricultural-policy, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, shepparton-3630, germany, northern-ireland, netherlands
