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The Southern Queensland and Northern New South Wales Hub (SQNNSW Hub) is led by the University of Southern Queensland (USQ).
Video transcript: Southern Queensland Northern New South Wales Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (DOCX 115 KB)
Funding
The Australian Government is…
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The Australian Government is helping the agriculture sector respond to climate challenges through the $302.1 million Climate-Smart Agriculture Program, funded through the Natural Heritage Trust.
The Program will help drive agricultural productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability by…
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Industry overview
Irrigated agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin makes an important contribution to the Australian economy and regional economies. In 2014–15 the Basin accounted for 66 per cent of Australia’s total area irrigated and 40 per cent of the nation’s irrigating agricultural…
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Download the report and data filesReport PDF 1.23 MB Report DOCX 1.41 MBHistorical climate and prices – ZIP 1007 MBHistorical climate prices fixed – ZIP 1006 MBIf you have difficulty accessing these files, visit web accessibility for assistance.The Australian Gridded Farm Data are a set of…
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Almost 75 per cent of Australia is rangelands. Pastoral industries are the dominant agricultural users in the rangelands, through extensive grazing on native vegetation.
Rainfall is generally too low…
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A recent ABARES report noted that the impacts of the 2018 drought on farm incomes may not be as severe as experienced in previous droughts, but that aggregate and average trends would likely mask significant variation in performance across different industries and regions.
Interim results1…
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It is important to manage farm forestry with a well thought-out management plan that addresses the financial, environmental, agricultural, non-agricultural, and personal and business goals of the farm.…
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Australia's favourable animal health status is important for maintaining international trade. Consumers can be confident with their product and our farms can remain productive and profitable. Through…
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Land use means the purpose to which the land cover is committed. Some land uses, such as agriculture, have a characteristic land cover pattern. These usually appear in land cover classifications. Other land uses, such as nature conservation, are not readily discriminated by a characteristic land…
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Changes in land use based on the national scale land use datasets
Table 1 shows the change in area of seven broad land use classes at the national level from 1992-93 to 2005-06. Conservation land uses (including Indigenous lands and minimal use areas such a residual native cover and Defence land…
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