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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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| UpdatedThe Coalition's 19 per cent backpacker tax compromise looks set for defeat in the Senate, with Labor and Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie pushing for a 10.5 per cent rate
Topics: federal-government, agribusiness, tourism, rural-tourism, fruit, vegetables, viticulture, agricultural-policy, farm-labour, livestock, parliament-house-2600
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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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A greenhouse producing fruit and vegetables aims to supply a local community store in the remote Arnhem Land community of Ramingining.
Topics: vegetables, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ramingining-0822
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As grain crops continue to be harvested across the northern growing regions of Australia and planting begins, one farmer is urging his counterparts to keep in eye on their neighbours.
Topics: cotton, fruit, grain, oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, wheat, community-development, crop-harvesting, mental-health, springsure-4722
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| UpdatedAnimal welfare expert says animals experience pleasure and fear, and deserve an enriched life of positive experiences.
Topics: agricultural-prices, wool, food-processing, beef-cattle, vegetables, dairy-production, sheep-production, rural-youth, sydney-2000
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Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306
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Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306
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| UpdatedA group of Tasmanian farmers is using 'digital disruption' to create a community of farmers sharing knowledge about improving soil health on farm.
Topics: earth-sciences, vegetables, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, social-media, sheffield-7306
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| UpdatedThe ACCC begins Federal Court action, alleging Woolworths attempted to gain $60 million in payments from weaker grocery suppliers ahead of Christmas 2014.
Topics: food-processing, vegetables, consumer-protection, retail, dairy-production, sydney-2000
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After weeks of waiting for the saturated soil to dry out, flood-affected farmers in South Australia's biggest vegetable growing region are now pulling out their ruined crops.
Topics: floods, vegetables, agricultural-crops, sa
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| UpdatedThe government's backpacker tax was never specifically investigated to see if it would hurt farmers and the tourism industry, a Senate inquiry has revealed.
Topics: federal-government, tax, rural, agribusiness, rural-tourism, tourism, agricultural-crops, fruit, vegetables, agricultural-policy, farm-labour, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedDavid Nix is one of 27 farmers still growing potatoes on the Atherton Tableland, inland of Cairns. He says growers now are fetching the best prices paid for spuds in 60 years as a result of the failed autumn harvest in southern growing regions. But the change in fortune came too late for many who have already left the industry - and yields for those who stayed have been well down after a mild winter.
Topics: vegetables, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedBeekeepers are shifting their focus to pollination at the expense of honey production as demand grows for the service.
Topics: beekeeping, vegetables, bega-2550
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Topics: rural, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, weeds, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, pest-management, fertilisers, agricultural-machinery, wheat, vegetables, fruit, fruits, grain, agricultural-crops, agricultural-chemicals, bundaberg-4670
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Topics: rural, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, weeds, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, pest-management, fertilisers, agricultural-machinery, wheat, vegetables, fruit, fruits, grain, agricultural-crops, agricultural-chemicals, bundaberg-4670
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Coles says it will source an extra 6 million kilos of Australian vegetables each year, to replace imported vegetables.
Topics: vegetables, rural, food-and-beverage, food-processing, agricultural-crops, burnie-7320, tas, nsw, vic
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Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Weights are replacing spades as many prisoners at Middleton Prison in Castlemaine take up gardening.
Topics: community-and-society, mental-health, vegetables, gardening, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, castlemaine-3450
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Topics: vegetables, sydney-2000