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The owner of Australia's largest commercial camel dairy says we need to start thinking of camels as livestock, co-grazing stock or even as pets.

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In the shadow of mass fish kills, Menindee residents are now worried for the rich and rare birdlife that relies on the area to breed.

In the cattle industry's busiest season, outback vets are turning to interns to help fill a shortage of qualified staff.

More than 40 sawfish die on Gina Rinehart's cattle station fuelling concerns about a water plan.

Farmers in SA are threatening to boycott Viterra after the bulk-handling company closed several grain silos and bunkers.

The world's first automated mango picking robot has been used to harvest fruit in central Queensland.

The world's largest macadamia processor turns to solar power in a bid to lower energy costs and reduce its environmental footprint.

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The sale of an Australian sugar milling company moves closer, with government funds to secure a foreign investor.

Amid international efforts to find a vaccine for the deadly pig virus, Australian authorities brace for an "inevitable" outbreak.

A remote Indigenous community use the weekly barge service in Arnhem Land to ship out 1 tonne of Kakadu plums.

About 500 locals turn out in Cummins, on SA's Eyre Peninsula, to watch one of the final trains pass through the town as the region prepares for more trucks on the road.

Researchers are shocked to discover the global macadamia industry may have originated from a single Queensland tree.

Pastoralists west of Alice Springs say their neighbours should be doing more to prevent a boom in the feral camel population.

The giant African snail with its voracious appetite poses a threat to Australian agriculture that is too big to ignore.

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Synoptic Chart

Updated: Sunday 4:00am
Todays Synoptic weather chart
A trough is triggering patchy rain over eastern QLD and northeastern NSW. Southerly winds are bringing showers to parts of the NSW coast, mainly the Hunter and Mid North coasts. A cold front is building to the south, sending showers over southwest VIC and TAS.

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Cloud over east QLD and northeast NSW with a trough is bringing patchy rain and the odd storm. Some cloud over the coastal fringes of central NSW in onshore winds is bringing showers, mainly to the Hunter. Cloud encroaching over VIC and TAS with a front is bringing some showers.

Rural Life

Australia's colonial banks are given new lives as bank branches close across regional Australia.

A French agriculture student wants her family to consider introducing buffalo on their Charolais operation after a stint on a NSW dairy.

Dalby records its coldest morning since 1911 following a winter blast across southern Queensland overnight.

Many businesses are lured to China's booming e-commerce industry, but many find it difficult to survive.

When the Foster family bought their new family home, they had no idea they would become lavender farmers and were oblivious to the work it would involve.

On the outskirts of Bendigo in central Victoria, a farm run by a social worker is helping children and adults with behavioural and mental health issues.

A former student at Mount Isa State Special School returns as mascot 'Miner Mick', bringing joy and good behaviour outcomes to students.

Amid "horrific" events including mass fish kills and the ongoing drought, residents of Menindee in outback NSW relax at a festival and hope it will be the first of many positive things to draw tourists back to the region.