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Farm lending reaches $131 billion in 2023-24

  • Media release
  • ABARES
Aggregate lending to the farm sector rose 6% in 2023-24, according to the latest figures released today by ABARES.
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Swift action by a Sydney importer stops Red Imported Fire Ants in their tracks

  • News
  • Biosecurity
A routine delivery quickly became a biosecurity success story, after quick-thinking staff at a Sydney importer sprang into action after spotting ants…
ABARES 80th anniversary

Celebrating 80 years of agricultural research

  • Media release
  • ABARES
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) today celebrates a milestone of 80 years of operations.
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National Diagnostic Protocol—Meadow spittlebug

  • Newsletter
  • Plants
A new National Diagnostic Protocol (N
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Million-dollar fine for attempting to bypass export controls

  • Media release
  • Compliance
An Australian grape-export company was fined more than a million dollars last week for deliberately trying to bypass controls to export table grapes…
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Australia’s food security future on the menu

  • News
  • Food
A public consultation is underway that will help shape a new national food security strategy.
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Sharp eye finds cacti illegally declared as lingerie and shoes

  • Media release
  • Biosecurity
A woman who illegally misdeclared a package as lingerie and shoes when it really held 57 cacti and succulents has been convicted.
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Pest Profile – Spotted Wing Drosophila

  • Newsletter
  • Plants
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Ensuring biosecurity operations are future ready

  • News
  • Biosecurity
Monica Collins, First Assistant Secretary, Biosecurity Operations Division, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry authored an article in…
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Celebrating our Indigenous rangers on World Ranger Day

  • News
  • First Nations
Stretching from our remote north-west coastline to the islands of Torres Strait, Indigenous rangers are either on Country undertaking animal, plant…
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Report offers insights into crop loss and waste on Australian horticultural farms

  • Media release
  • Agriculture
The average percentage of crop loss or waste per Australian horticultural farm dropped in 2023-24 and varied significantly depending on crop type,…
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Expanded $29,500 music awards strike a biosecurity chord

  • Media release
  • First Nations
Entrants in an expanded biosecurity music competition launched this month will sing and dance their way towards $29,500 in prize money.
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Illegal-fishing exchange program makes a splash in Asia

  • Media release
  • Fisheries
A Southeast Asian exchange program designed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing held its first event in Bangkok last month.
Toes of a gecko; a red parasitic Geckobia mite can be seen between two of the toes

New imaging tools to identify pests

  • News
  • Biosecurity
If you ever looked at a butterfly wing, spider, or ant through the lens of your high school’s dissecting microscope, it was likely fuzzy, with only a…