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NSW fires: Uarbry all but wiped out as firefighters continue to battle blazes

NSW faces another day of fires with damage still unclear

Unrestricted pumping declared for Carnarvon farmers

Lower Gascoyne River

Researchers decode quinoa genome, allowing them to learn why it thrives in harsh environments

Quinoa seed head

Outback windmills go solar on Red Centre cattle station

A windmill on Undoolya station with a new solar panel beside it

GM bananas set to return to Northern Territory

An example of what the Panama disease can do to banana plants

Innovation keeps headers cool, reduces fire risk

Mon Feb 13 13:13:22 EST 2017

Winemakers sweat hard to cool hot grapes during heatwave

Mon Feb 13 12:46:30 EST 2017

Fears intensify for survival of ancient maugean skate in Macquarie Harbour

Sat Feb 11 12:14:22 EST 2017

Lettuce hope Britain can romaine calm as 'vegetable crisis' bites

Sat Feb 11 07:13:21 EST 2017

Kalgoorlie engineer lip reads her way to diverse mining career

Fri Feb 10 19:30:20 EST 2017

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Harvest fire risk reduced with innovative header cooling system

Header on fire

Queensland weather: Winemakers strive to keep grapes cool during heatwave

Grapes on the vine after being watered during the heatwave

Are lupin flakes the next big superfood?

Usually fed to sheep, with high protein and fibre, lupin flakes could be just as beneficial to humans.

UK's produce shortage has suppliers scrambling as prices spike 300pc

UK's vegetable crisis sees supermarkets with empty shelves as they struggle to meet demand

Black market abalone drives wedge between commercial and cultural fishermen

Andrew Nye and John Brierley, commercial cultural fisherman based in Moruya, check out their nets laid out on the ground.

Rural Life

Central Australian cattle station trades outback windmills for solar power

A windmill on Undoolya station with a new solar panel beside it

NSW heatwave: How some of the hottest towns in Australia dealt with the heat

Australia Day street cricket outside the Ivanhoe Hotel Motel.

Fish poo to table food: Backyard aquaponics helps in urban farming set up

Urban farming

People, food and freight travel along the Roper River during wet season flooding

people getting off a boat

Click go the shears for pint-sized shearer with future mapped out in the shed

Five-year-old Charlie Dunn shearing a lamb with blade shears in the shearing shed

Specials

Seven decades of farming

A 1949 photograph showing the Governor-General, Sir William McKell officially starting the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme by pressing a plunger to set off a charge of dynamite.

Australian farm policy, passion and protest since 1940: from Snowy Hydro to the Millennium drought.

Infographic: drought funding

Infographic: a graphical display of how much money farmers have received in Federal Government concessional loans.

Slicing up the drought funding: who's getting the Federal Government's concessional loans?

ABC coverage: Beef Week 2015

Two cows in a pen.

ABC Rural takes you to the country's biggest event for the cattle industry, Beef Australia 2015

Global banana crisis?

Green bananas hang in a bunch.

Is the global supply of the world's most popular fruit at risk and can genetic modification help?

Cyclone devastates agriculture

Group of cocoa farmers sit under trees holding cocoa fruit and knives in Vanuatu

Cyclone Pam has caused extensive damage to Vanuatu's fishing, livestock, fruit and vegetable industries.

Analysis: the berry trade

December rain plumps up blueberries

The cost of labour is not the only reason frozen imported berries are cheaper than Australian berries.

Shearing without sound

Freshly shorn sheep walk past a brick building.

Blade shearers lined the walls of Glencoe's heritage listed woolshed to recreate life in 1863.

Home on the plane

Bird smashes through cockpit

Rural Reporter turns aviatrix explores the importance of aircraft to remote Australia.