Cotton growers are being warned visa uncertainty could hit the seasonal workforce needed for picking and ginning, as industry leaders demand answers from Canberra.
Agriculture
Posted inAgriculture, Boggabilla, News
Boggabilla agricultural leader Rebecca Fing named 2027 Nuffield Scholar
Boggabilla’s Rebecca Fing will take her farm safety research overseas after being named a 2027 Nuffield Scholar.
Posted inAgriculture, Feature, Local News
New England households to benefit from energy support funding
New England households will get help cutting energy bills, with Southern New England Landcare sharing $4.7 million in state funding.
Posted inAgribusiness, Agriculture, Environment, Feature, Federal Politics
F4CA report says farmers carry industry’s climate load
Farmers are already propping up Australia’s climate accounts for free, while coal, gas and oil buy their way out of cutting pollution at the source, according to a new report from Farmers for Climate Action.
Posted inAgriculture, Glen Innes, What's on
GLENRAC’s Fit Farmer returns
Succession planning, pest control, mental health and a new pasture forecasting tool: GLENRAC’s Fit Farmer day packs it all in at Glen Innes Showgrounds this month.
Posted inAgribusiness, Agriculture, Environment, Feature, Long Read, Mining and Resources, Moree
The real climate policy threat to Australia’s agricultural land
WEEKEND LONG READ: Australia’s system of carbon credits is swallowing up millions of hectares of prime farming land and locking it up for a century, while polluters like Woodside and Chevron look clean on paper. Farmers, investors and economists all want it fixed.
Posted inAgriculture, Moree, Training and courses
Rabobank brings farm office help to Moree
Farm paperwork piling up? Rabobank is bringing a hands-on workshop to Moree to help producers tame the office side of the business, from bookkeeping apps to email overload.
Posted inAgriculture, NSW News, Water
NSW floodplain harvesting audit begins
Only 58 per cent of floodplain harvesting storages in NSW were compliant as of June, and now a watchdog audit wants to know if the water take data can be trusted at all.
Posted inAgribusiness, Agriculture, Armidale
Armidale regulator’s slow approvals slammed
A new global study says slow, costly approvals are cutting Australian farmers off from new technology, reigniting scrutiny of the Armidale-based APVMA’s slumping performance.
Posted inAgriculture, Animals, Emergency management, Feature, National News, NSW News
Bird flu funding boost branded thin
A $145 million bird flu funding boost has been branded “deeply unserious” by conservationists, as the virus reaches a dolphin for the first time and NSW rolls out a native bird vaccine trial.