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A wild dog expert says there's no end in sight for the damage being done by wild dogs in regions like South Australia's Far West. Paul Billsborough from the Queensland company Wild Pest Management has been running workshops in the region.
Topics: rural, livestock, sheep-production, pests, penong-5690
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Far West farmers losing hundreds of sheep to wild dogs learn the ropes of trapping
Topics: sheep-production, pests, rural, livestock, penong-5690
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Topics: rural, livestock, sheep-production, pests, penong-5690
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A new cold tolerant, short season and water efficient medium grain rice variety is being hailed a game changer by Australian industry.
Topics: rice, agricultural-crops, science-and-technology, rural, jerilderie-2716, yanco-2703
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's department confirms 54,997 penalty notices were issued from July 1 to September 30 last year for participants in the Community Development Programme.
Topics: unemployment, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-development, rural, nt, australia
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| UpdatedAn invasive exotic weed, thought to have been tipped into the river from an aquarium, is spreading along Manning River banks.
Topics: weeds, environmental-management, regional, rural, gloucester-2422, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444
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Topics: forestry, rural, forests, environment
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Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia.
Topics: photography, visual-art, community-and-society, regional, rural, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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| UpdatedEmbattled sugar marketer Queensland Sugar Limited has been forced to sack its board of industry directors as its dispute with Australia's largest sugar miller drags on.
Topics: sugar, rural, agricultural-crops, agricultural-prices, agribusiness, agricultural-marketing, brisbane-4000
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Veronica Januschka talks about spending the past 40 years running the Roper Bar Store
Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-women, rural-tourism, katherine-0850
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Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-women, rural-tourism, katherine-0850
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For nearly 40 years, Veronica Januschka and her family have run a small, isolated store in the Northern Territory's Roper region.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-women, rural-tourism, katherine-0850
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Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-tourism, katherine-0850
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Topics: rural, drought, small-business, ilfracombe-4727, qld, australia
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Topics: rural, exercise-and-fitness, health, longreach-4730, qld, australia
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In western Queensland, where drought has dominated most lives in the past five years, the small seeds of big business ideas have started to grow.
Topics: rural, small-business, drought, gatton-4343, qld, australia
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Cucumber grower Andrew Youngberry says without clean seeds there's no guarantee farms can be protected from CGMMV, despite stringent on-farm biosecurity.
Topics: rural, bundaberg-4670
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| UpdatedThe farmer at the centre of an outbreak of a devastating cucumber disease says the eradication program is likely to cost millions of dollars.
Topics: rural, quarantine, pest-management, crop-harvesting, agricultural-policy, vegetables, bundaberg-4670
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Researchers from the Australian National University call for an urgent rethink of the Basin Plan, arguing the money being spent is not achieving the desired results set out under the policy.
Topics: water, water-management, environment, rural, sa, vic, nsw, qld, act
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Topics: rural, weather, national-parks, timber-creek-0852
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Topics: rural, weather, national-parks, timber-creek-0852
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Topics: rural, weather, national-parks, timber-creek-0852
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government says it will "not be very long" until it intervenes in a vitriolic sugar marketing dispute in Queensland if the parties involved cannot reach a solution.
Topics: sugar, agricultural-crops, rural, joyce-barnaby, canberra-2600, brisbane-4000