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You're kidding: Demand for live dairy goat exports rising
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Demand for live dairy goats from Australia is growing, according to the Dairy Goat Society of Australia's federal export officer.
Topics: rural, women-in-agriculture, trade, dairy-production, goat-production, mundubbera-4626
Life-long love affair with horses leads to long-life lucerne
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A Queensland couple is making compressed, vacuum-packed lucerne a fraction of the size of traditional bales for use by campdrafters and rodeo riders.
Topics: rural, equestrian, rural-women, equine-production, community-development, agricultural-shows, agricultural-machinery, monto-4630
Direct selling at markets the key to surviving Bunnings
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Making money in the nursery industry is increasingly harder as customers shun nurseries for chain stores.
Topics: flower-foliage, gardening, lifestyle-and-leisure, agricultural-crops, flowers, agribusiness, rural, yandina-4561
Christina della Valle is raising the profile of rare pig breeds and their meat
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When you are cooking up some roast pork how much thought do you give the genetics of that piece of meat?
Topics: rural, mackay-4740
Queensland cattle producer speaks about 60 years on Bellmore Downs
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While some dream of retirement, that has never been the case for Queensland cattle producer Yvonne Cox.
Topics: rural, land-management, beef-cattle, livestock, rural-women, collinsville-4804
Farmers around country given helping hand thanks to Mackay donations
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From severe weather in the south to drought in the north, there are plenty of farming families in need of support.
Topics: rural, drought, charities, community-and-society, mackay-4740
Growers call for better market access into Taiwan
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Queensland horticulturalists say they hope building direct relationships with buyers in Taiwan will encourage the Federal Government to begin talks on a Free Trade Agreement with the county.
Topics: rural, trade, food-processing, agricultural-policy, vegetables, sugar, fruits, fruit, bundaberg-4670
Metal and mineral commodities expected to lift in five years
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With the downturn in the mining and resource sector, many are still asking if the industry has hit rock bottom yet.
Topics: rural, copper, gold, iron-ore, coal, markets, business-economics-and-finance, mining-industry, mining-rural, industry, mackay-4740
A Queensland farmer is exploring the booming popularity of turmeric as a super food
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A Bundaberg ginger grower harvests his first commercial turmeric crop as demand for the so-called super food ramps up.
Topics: rural, alzheimers-and-dementia, diet-and-nutrition, food-processing, food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, research, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, herbs, bundaberg-4670
New VFF president vows to tackle farmers' issues
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Victoria's most powerful farming organisation elects Wimmera grains grower David Jochinke as its new president.
Topics: rural, mackay-4740
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