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Checking it twice - biosecurity awareness is key to festive giving

  • Media release
  • Biosecurity
24 December 2021
Australia’s biosecurity officers have had a busy year in 2021, with some weird and wonderful frontline finds including reindeer meat, rat skewers and…

Traveller hailed biosecurity champion after reporting bug

  • Media release
  • Biosecurity
21 December 2021
A Victorian woman returning home from overseas is being hailed a biosecurity hero, after she reported finding one of Australia’s most potentially…

Media statement: ASEL guidance for selection of livestock for export

  • Statement
  • Live animal exports
17 December 2021
The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) has published guidebooks to support users of the Australian Standards for the Export…
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Economic benefits flow from southern Basin carryover

  • Media release
  • ABARES
17 December 2021
Current carryover arrangements in the southern Murray-Darling Basin could be worth over $50 million a year to irrigators, the latest ABARES research…

Amendments to export rules finalised

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  • Exports
17 December 2021
Amendments to the Export Control Rules 2021 have been made.

Media statement: Review of live sheep exports by sea during the Northern Hemisphere summer: public consultation on draft report

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16 December 2021
Public consultation is now open on the Department’s draft review of the regulatory settings for the export of live sheep by sea to, or through, the…
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Ag production value and volume soar to historic heights

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  • ABARES
07 December 2021
Australia’s farmers are on track to smash production value and volume records in 2021-22 on the back of exceptional seasonal conditions and a surge…

Sweet survey results for sugarcane farmers

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  • ABARES
06 December 2021
The ABARES Financial performance of sugarcane farms 2020–21 to 2021–22 survey finds Australian sugarcane farm cash income was 91 per cent higher…

Australia’s Chief Vet visits Fiji to strengthen biosecurity and animal health collaboration

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  • Biosecurity
06 December 2021
Australia’s Chief Veterinary Officer Dr Mark Schipp is traveling to Fiji to strengthen ties with key Fijian agricultural, veterinary and animal…

Insights report offers a taste of things to come from booming Indonesian food market

  • Media release
  • ABARES
02 December 2021
An ABARES Insights report released today confirms Indonesia’s booming food market offers significant opportunities for Australian agriculture—but…

Record year for Australian winter crop production

  • Media release
  • ABARES
30 November 2021
Australian winter crop production is forecast to reach a new national record.

Emanuel Exports Pty Ltd / EMS Rural Exports Pty Ltd v Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

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  • Live animal exports
29 November 2021
On 26 November 2021, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) made a decision in response to the application by Emanuel Exports Pty Ltd and EMS…

Illegal Foetal Bovine Serum importer charged

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  • Compliance
26 November 2021
An individual pleaded guilty on 23 April 2021 to illegally importing foetal bovine serum in 2012 and producing fraudulent health certificates.

Horticulture output holds despite fewer workers

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25 November 2021
ABARES research reveals that in 2020–21 Australian horticultural farm output levels have remained steady despite an eight per cent drop in the number…

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