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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 12 June 2024, rainfall was isolated to the southern parts of the country.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals were high in the south-west and south-east, and low in the remaining regions. In Western Australia,…
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Our farmers do an amazing job to produce some of the world’s best agricultural products.Australia exports about 72% of the total value of agricultural, fisheries and forestry production, which in 2022–23 was an estimated $98 billion.Today marks National Agriculture Day (AgDay) and this year’s theme…
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A breakthrough in how we identify pests entering Australia has now been successfully tried and tested in Sydney. ‘MALDI-TOF’ and ‘MinION’ are new diagnostic systems being adopted in our border biosecurity operations that use protein and DNA profiles to rapidly identify species through…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 30 October 2024, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to western, northern, and eastern areas of Australia.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between 10 and 100 millimetres were recorded in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 31 July 2024, cold fronts and a series of troughs brought rainfall to south-west, southern and eastern Australia, while a high-pressure system kept remaining areas largely dry.Across cropping regions, rainfall…
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Article originally published 11 November, updated 22 November 2024 Australia demonstrated our commitment to climate action in the agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan from 11 – 22 November 2024.Globally, the…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 27 March 2025 monsoon lows and low-pressure systems brought intense rainfall to the north and east of Australia.Large areas of western Queensland recorded rainfall totals of between 100-400 millimetres. While this…
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For the week ending 15 November 2023, troughs and lows resulted in showers and thunderstorms over eastern New South Wales and Victoria, northern and southern Western Australia, southern Queensland, and across Northern…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 11 April 2024, large areas in the eastern Australia were affected by a severe weather system with recorded rainfall of up to 200 millimetres in southern Queensland and 400 millimetres in New South Wales.Cropping…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 14 August 2024 a series of low-pressure troughs and a low-pressure system and cold front brought rainfall totals of up to 200 millimetres to eastern Australia and up to 50 millimetres in south-west Western Australia…
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