Agriculture
Chinese investors buy 50 Australian Dairy farms
Chinese investors are currently in the process of buying between 40-50 dairy farms across south west Victoria. Amongst the properties......
Throw a BBQ to help farmers in need
The disparity in health outcomes between rural and city dwellers is huge and the situation is made worse for farmers......
Horticulture grows in Brisbane
Brisbane hosts the 2014 International Horticulture Congress, with a wide variety of scientific topics about fruits, vegetables, water, among others.......
What an East Timorese activist can teach Australian farmers
Faced with pressure from first Indonesia, then aid organisations and finally the new East Timorese government to modernise farming practices,......
Carbon farming has its day in the Senate, where to from here?
As the new Senators arrive in Canberra, the issue of carbon farming is top of the agenda. Carbon farming allows......
Summit puts the future of food security under the grill
Hundreds of millions of people go to bed with an empty stomach every night across the world, and this problem......
GM wins out as organic farmer tastes defeat
The landmark case of an organic farmer suing a GM farmer ended yesterday, with the WA Supreme Court ruling in......
New reports on animal cruelty in livestock exports
Australia claims it has the best regulations for livestock exports in the world. But according to new reports released by......
Raising a stink over waste water
Millions of hectares of land are irrigated with poop and pee. This waste water is used as a source of......
Protests against coal seam gas in northwest NSW
For the people living in Coonamble in NSW, fear is high on what the coal seam gas activities can do......