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The Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry sponsored 6 delegates from neighbouring countries to take part in two national plant biosecurity workshops this month.
Marjorie Kemoi (left)
Michelle Balfour (Right)
Image taken by Emily Lamberton
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It was the poor condition of their land in Queensland’s Central Highlands which forced graziers Greg and Sonya Spencer to start adapting their practices to drought.“If we wind the clock back five years and we were standing here, you’d be thinking you were standing in a desert. There was no grass,…
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Seeing the impact of climate variability on their beef and hay production business in Central Queensland, Matt and Justine McLeod knew they needed to adapt their practices.“When we first came here, a shower of rain or a storm would end up down the creek not staying in our paddocks,” Matt said.“We…
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As the Technical Adoption Officer at the Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub, Keerah Steele travels long distances to meet cattle graziers across the Northern Gulf.Keerah works together with the Rural Financial Counselling Service North Queensland and Beef…
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Olga Downs Station, near Richmond in northwest Queensland, has been in the Harrington family for almost 90 years.Family patriarch, Peter, admits he usually favours traditional practices for cattle production.“We’re probably still a bit old fashioned in some ways. It’s just a wet and dry draft when…
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27 March 2024PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses to export Hass avocados to Japan, Thailand, and India.Summary of changes and key pointsApplications are now open for farms and packhouses…
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27 March 2024Who does this notice affect?Importers, biosecurity industry participants and accredited persons operating under the department’s class 19 approved arrangements, freight forwarders and other industry participants who arrange documentation for imported goods.What has changed?The…
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27 March 2024PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify industry of an expected maintenance outage for our learning management system (Learnhub).Summary of changes and key pointsLearnhub will be unavailable from 12:00 am Thursday 4 April 2024 to 11:59 pm Saturday 6 April 2024 (AEDT).…
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Update: 29 MarchPrecautionary testing undertaken by the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness has returned negative results for Lumpy Skin Disease and Foot and Mouth Disease, confirming that there is no evidence of an exotic disease.Australia’s Animal Health Status remains unchanged.Update: 28…
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This report lists food that has recently failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).Data for the fails in this report and previous reports are available from this link - Imported Food Inspection Scheme - monthly failing food reports - Dataset - data.gov.auFood testsWe target and…
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