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The Partnering to implement the National Soil Action Plan program is a $20 million initiative from the 2023-2024 budget.The Australian Government is partnering with states and territories to deliver 17 projects that address one or more priority actions of the National Soil Action Plan (2023-2028)…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 7 December 2022, high-pressure systems brought another week of dry conditions to most of Australia. Weekly rainfall totals exceeding 50 millimetres were observed across small areas of northern and eastern…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jeremy van Dijk
In 2014–15 rice production contributed 4 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Murray–Darling Basin (ABS 2017). Almost all of Australia’s rice production occurs in the NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee regions in the…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesFor the week ending 6 July 2022, a cloud band across northern Australia brought rainfall to the northern tropics, while an East Coast Low resulted in significant rainfall and flooding to parts of eastern New South Wales.…
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The Future Drought Fund (FDF) has invested $1.6 million through Nuffield Australia to deliver Drought Resilience Scholarships and training.The 2025 Drought Resilience Scholarship Program will support 5 agricultural leaders to increase their knowledge of new tools and practices, to help the…
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2020–21 to 2022–23
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Good seasonal conditions and higher commodity prices have been major drivers of improved broadacre farm performance in Australia in recent years. However, farm incomes are projected to fall slightly in 2022–23 because of lower prices for most commodities and input…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesFor the week ending 6 December 2023, widespread shower activity over south-eastern Australia and troughs over northern Australia brought significant rainfall totals.These falls will likely provide sufficient soil moisture to allow for…
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2021–22 to 2023–24Recent farm performanceAround 39% of Australian farm businesses are classified as broadacre livestock farms (34,000 farms), of which 22,100 were beef specialists, 8,900 were sheep specialists, and around 3,000 produced a mix of beef cattle and sheep (see Methodology).Farm…
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The North East Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) is one of three RFAs in New South Wales, and comprises two sub regions: Upper North East and Lower North East. The Australian and New South Wales governments signed the North East RFA on 31 March 2000.
The North East RFA was varied on 28 November…
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This indicator measures the conservation status of nationally listed threatened forest dwelling species. Documentation of this information over time allows analysis of changes to species’ conservation status indicating the extent to which forest species biodiversity is being maintained.This is the…
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