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The Kimberley's new abattoir is processing around 500 animals a week and will ramp up significantly once export approvals are finalised.
Topics: rural, food-processing, trade, beef-cattle, derby-6728
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| UpdatedA new farm on Christmas Island has helped halve the cost of vegetables on the isolated island.
Topics: fruits, fruit, agricultural-crops, rural, vegetables, states-and-territories, agribusiness, agricultural-prices, agricultural-subsidies, christmas-island-6798, maroochydore-4558
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Franklin egg farmer Celia Leverton says an old horse float and a former ice cream van are being used for their hens to produce pastured eggs.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-women, poultry-and-egg-production, franklin-7113
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| UpdatedWhen Donna Campagnolo's parents imported the first pepper plants into Australia in the 1970s, everything was done by hand.
Topics: farm-labour, rural, food-processing, food-and-cooking, agricultural-crops, women-in-agriculture, rural-women, silkwood-4856, cairns-4870
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Topics: rural, vegetables, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ramingining-0822
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Topics: rural, vegetables, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ramingining-0822
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| UpdatedAlmost three months after the State Government bought back BHP Billiton's exploration licence covering parts of the Liverpool Plains, the company is yet to make a decision about selling the land it has acquired.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, rural, caroona-2343
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Grains industry association of WA crop report compiler Alan Meldrum talks about the total tonnage expected for WA in 2016
Topics: rural, weather, crop-harvesting, agricultural-crops, esperance-6450
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While Australian food and grocery exports increase, there is grim news regional areas, where jobs growth across the sector stall completely.
Topics: rural, industry, manufacturing, food-processing, canberra-2600
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Topics: rural, fruits, fruit, crop-harvesting, farm-labour, agricultural-policy, bundaberg-4670
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Matt Brann speaks to AMIA's Robert Gray about new standards for class one mangoes. READ MORE.
Topics: rural, kununurra-6743
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| UpdatedThe Australian Mango Industry Association (AMIA) and the major retailers have agreed upon a new standard for first grade mangoes this season.
Topics: rural, agricultural-policy, agricultural-marketing, fruit, kununurra-6743, mareeba-4880, darwin-0800
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The small rural community of Mingoola, on the Queensland/NSW border, was facing a bleak future.
Topics: human-interest, refugees, rural, tenterfield-2372
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| UpdatedThe social experiment to repopulate Mingoola has been labelled a win-win scenario.
Topics: human-interest, rural, refugees, tenterfield-2372
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Western Queensland is becoming a major hub for solar energy, with state's largest solar power farm soon to go online near Barcaldine and construction starting on another major project at Longreach.
Topics: solar-energy, drought, rural, community-development, federal---state-issues, regional-development, barcaldine-4725, longreach-4730
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| UpdatedA family-owned station in the Top End is giving troubled kids a second chance, teaching them pastoralism, and in this case, how to catch wild bulls.
Topics: rural, farm-labour, livestock, borroloola-0854, nt, australia
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The population of Australia's smallest town increases from zero to 200 for the fifth annual Channel Country Ladies day.
Topics: people, human-interest, community-organisations, community-and-multicultural-festivals, charities-and-community-organisations, womens-health, health, rural-women, rural, birdsville-4482, longreach-4730, qld, australia
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It has been a busy year in Patchewollock, as internationally renowned artist arrives in town to paint their silos.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, rural, patchewollock-3491
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In Victoria's far north-west the farming town of Patchewollock is experiencing a minor boom in culture and babies, and after decades of decline, it can't come too soon.
Topics: street-art, arts-and-entertainment, visual-art, music, rural, patchewollock-3491, brim-3391
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In recent years right across Asia there has been an explosion of economic growth and in many countries, like China and India, the cost to some smaller and rural communities has been high, many dispossessed of their land in the name of economic progress.
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A former coal miner who has unwillingly become a symbol of black lung disease details his plight, telling a state parliamentary committee there are moments he no longer wants to live.
Topics: community-and-society, health, environmental-health, health-policy, health-administration, occupational-health-and-safety, diseases-and-disorders, rural, mining-rural, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305, qld
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Hundreds of landholders register for the 2017 national release of the new strain of deadly K5 rabbit virus.
Topics: rural, agricultural-crops, pest-management, pests, broken-hill-2880, sydney-2000, orange-2800, wilcannia-2836
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| UpdatedA long hot summer with an abundance of Mediterranean fruit fly awaits the people of Harvey, a fruit-growing town in the WA's south west.
Topics: rural, pests, environment, harvey-6220