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| UpdatedIn the next 20 years Sydney's west is expected to bear the brunt of population growth and areas traditionally used to grow food for people in the city are being squeezed out by developers.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, agricultural-crops, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, population-and-demographics, house-and-home, housing, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedJohn Spark has been announced as Philip Tracy's replacement at Australia's largest dairy processor.
Topics: dairy-production, agribusiness, corporate-governance, melbourne-3000
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Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-youth, beef-cattle, katherine-0850
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It is a great time to be entering the beef industry, according to the Top End's newest ringers.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, rural-youth, beef-cattle, katherine-0850
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Senate inquiry into drone use worries about safety and regulation that will keep up with technology.
Topics: agribusiness, air-transport, agricultural-policy, dalby-4405
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National Farmers Federation calls for energy solution, but farmers fighting coal seam gas fear it will be at their expense.
Topics: agricultural-prices, agribusiness, oil-and-gas, solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, irrigation, sydney-2000, warrnambool-3280, darwin-0800, chinchilla-4413, mullaley-2379
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Much of Australia's recent focus on water reform has been trained on the Murray-Darling Basin. But the Productivity Commission is taking a much broader view as it embarks on a year-long review of Australia's water reform project, looking at what's been done, and what is left to do. Productivity Commissioner Jane Doolan told ABC Rural's Anna Vidot she hopes communities across Australia will get involve to have their say.
Topics: drought, climate-change, rivers, water-supply, water-management, water, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedThe Productivity Commission wants to look well beyond the Murray-Darling, in its year-long review of Australia's water reform project.
Topics: drought, climate-change, rivers, water-supply, water-management, water, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, irrigation, parliament-house-2600
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A farmer in the NSW Hunter Valley who swapped city life for the country is keen to grow agricultural tourism.
Topics: agricultural-marketing, agribusiness, rural, travel-and-tourism, laguna-2325, newcastle-2300
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For years the old Gunns pulp and paper mill dominated the Burnie skyline in north-west Tasmania. Now it's the rattle of ginger beer bottles that breaks the silence. Read more
Topics: agribusiness, food-and-beverage, burnie-7320
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New Zealand's bees are being stolen and traded by organised crime syndicates seeking to profit from skyrocketing honey prices thanks to surging demand in China, police and beekeepers say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, agribusiness, new-zealand
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Topics: rural, livestock, sheep-production, agribusiness, longreach-4730, ilfracombe-4727, barcaldine-4725, qld
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A new wave of wild dog cluster fences is set to rise in central west Queensland, doubling sheep in the area.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, agricultural-subsidies, sheep-production, livestock, pest-management, barcaldine-4725, longreach-4730
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The Northern Territory's Tipperary Station is capitalising on high cattle prices during the wet season, by mustering cattle when demand is strong.
Topics: rural, agribusiness, beef-cattle, trade, katherine-0850, adelaide-river-0846
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Topics: rural, agribusiness, beef-cattle, trade, katherine-0850, adelaide-river-0846
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A Melbourne-based wool processor says soaring gas prices are likely to wipe out any profits it will make this year.
Topics: wool, agribusiness, dairy-production, oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, laverton-north-3026, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000, perth-6000, brisbane-4000, darwin-0800, hobart-7000
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The ABARES Outlook conference heard two very different views about whether the world should take US president Donald Trump at his word on trade.
Topics: trade, agreements-and-treaties, agribusiness, agricultural-policy, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedAustralian agriculture has never been worth more, but what could happen if US President Donald Trump follows through on promises to shake up global trade?
Topics: economic-trends, oilseeds, agricultural-marketing, international-aid-and-trade, agricultural-subsidies, beef-cattle, donald-trump, agreements-and-treaties, agricultural-policy, agricultural-prices, dairy-production, wheat, livestock, agribusiness, grain, parliament-house-2600, united-states
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| UpdatedA Chinese businessman who lived in Brisbane for three years is taking Aussie beef back home, opening a string of butcher shops in Chengdu, China's fifth-largest city.
Topics: beef-cattle, agribusiness, china, australia