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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jay Gomboso
The southern Murray–Darling Basin has around one-fifth of Australia’s total dairy farms. In 2014–15 irrigated dairy production contributed 17 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Basin (ABS 2016).
Dairy farming in…
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Step-by-step guidelines for exporting plants and plant products
As an exporter, you are the person or company responsible for the goods being exported.
We have developed this step-by-step guide, to help you comply with Australian export laws and meet importing country requirements.
This guide is…
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Biosecurity is the management of the risk of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia and causing harm to animals, plants or human health,…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has today opened public consultation on a new regulatory framework for the export of non-prescribed agricultural goods.Head of Trade and Regulation, Tina Hutchison said the new framework would help to safeguard market access for exporters of…
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Non-tariff measures: a revised methodology for the quantification of bilateral trade effects of policy measures at a product levelQuantification of the trade effects of non-tariff measures provides an important input for decision making. This technical paper outlines improvements to an earlier…
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20 July 2015Purpose The Biosecurity Bill 2014 and supporting legislation received royal assent from the Governor-General on 16 June 2015 and has now become the Biosecurity Act 2015. Key Points The new…
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Recommendation 1.
The language used in the NEBRA to describe stakeholders should be consistent with that used in the broader IGAB and the other biosecurity response agreements (EADRA and EPPRD).
The NBC supports in part this recommendation.
The NBC proposes that the language…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 16 April 2025 low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to the west, far north and east of Australia.Rainfall totals were low in many cropping regions, with exceptions in Western Australia where 5-150…
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OverviewAnimal Health Australia and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia funded the development of an app, Sheep EAD AR. This app is available in the Apple, Google play and Microsoft App Stores.Producers and other stakeholders can use the app on mobile devices and the…
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OverviewIn 2023, AUSVETPLAN Response strategy: Lumpy skin disease Version 5.1 was published on the AHA website. Updates included relevant learnings from Exercise LSD2, a government and industry exercise held in December 2022 to test components of the previous version of the AUSVETPLAN Response…
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