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Every three years, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences conducts the pest animal and weed management survey.
The 2022 survey (and the previous surveys conducted in 2016 and 2019) sought information from agricultural land managers about the types of impacts…
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PLANT PEST
A varroa mite on the back of a honey bee.Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
Mites of bees (Apis spp.) Exotic to Australia, with varroa mite (Varroa destructor) present in parts of Australia and are under management in…
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26 September 2022
Who does this notice affect?
Departmental staff; importers of ovine and/or caprine dairy, ovine and/or caprine fluids and tissues (including laboratory products containing fluids and tissues), and stockfeed from Spain.
What is changing?
The department has received notification…
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Exercise Volare occurred in August - September 2024, as a series of 3 scenario-based discussions, exercises focused on a hypothetical detection of H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) clade 2.3.4.4b (further referred to as H5 HPAI) in Australian…
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Introduction
The Australian apple and pear industry takes this opportunity to express to Biosecurity Australia its extreme disquiet over the proposal to import apples from USA.
This document…
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Date of issue: 30 August 2023
Date of effect: 1 September and 8 - 9 September 2023
Attention:
Registered dairy exporters, manufacturers, agents, freight forwarders, approved export permit issuers and EDI users.
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (the department) - Central and…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 20 July 2022, cold fronts brought moderate rainfall to parts of southern Australia. Meanwhile, high-pressure systems dominated much of the country bringing clear, dry conditions.
Predominantly dry…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 15 May 2024, inland Queensland, eastern South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales recorded rainfall totals between 50 and 100 millimetres. Far south-west Western Australia recorded rainfall totals between 25 and…
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The following information provides useful links to fisheries websites.
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is responsible for ensuring the sustainable use and cost-effective management of Commonwealth fisheries. It provides management…
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Introduction
On 26 June 2014 the Senate referred the matter of the National Landcare Program’s performance, effectiveness and future to the Environment and Communications References Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report.
The history, effectiveness, performance and future of the…
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