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Xylella fastidiosa is a pest of worldwide significance and has been identified as Australia’s number one National Priority Plant Pest. These plant pests and diseases are not present or established in Australia but pose a major threat to our agricultural and food production industries.In May…
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First, let’s briefly provide an overview of some of the co-benefits of carbon farming before looking into the co-benefits of particular carbon farming activities.Carbon farming helps tackle climate change by reducing or avoiding greenhouse gas emissions and storing more carbon in soil and…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 9 April 2025 low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to the north and east of Australia.High rainfall continued in much of northern and central Australia, including Queensland (5-200 millimetres), the…
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6 May 2015PurposeTo advise industry that Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is present in some areas of Australia.Background The Consultative Committee on Emergency Plant Pests (CCEPP) has considered…
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The following videos provide further information and discussion on soil and vegetation carbon farming through a case study and interviews.Watch these videosIn this video (8:28 minutes), Nigel Sharp, CEO of Tiverton Agriculture Impact Fund, discusses soil carbon through pasture.Video: Soil…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry uses a range of scientific, intelligence and evidence-based information to set the measures for managing risks associated with arriving goods and cargo. This includes targeting containers that:pose greater biosecurity risksare from known high-…
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A workshop in Fiji this month will seek to strengthen biosecurity in the Pacific by developing a new strategy to manage risks associated with sea container movements.The strategy aims to reduce the global spread of hitchhiker pests across the Pacific region via the sea container pathway. These…
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