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The winter cropping season is off to a cracking start as most of the wheat-sheep belt faces its third consecutive year of favourable autumn planting conditions.
Executive Director of ABARES Dr Jared Greenville said that this year’s winter crop area is currently forecast to be only slightly lower…
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Senior Plant Pathologist Jenny Morrison has been given a remarkable accolade: a newly discovered species of fungus has been named after her.
It all started in north Queensland in 2019, when Jenny was one of 26 scientists from around Australia who…
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ACLUMP State and Territory partners undertook pilot projects to trial methods for 'mapping' land management practices information.
The pilot projects involved collaboration with other organisations such as catchment management authorities, industry groups and other government agencies. Land…
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Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, July 2023
This guideline sets out what is expected of departmental and establishment staff in relation to preparing for and responding to an incursion of an EAD on a tier 2 export registered meat establishment.
The purpose of…
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Biosecurity is the management of the risk of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia and causing harm to animals, plants or human…
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Rural research, development and extension (RD&E) has been a significant contributor to making Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries into what they are today—world-leading,…
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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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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 27 September 2023, cold fronts brought showers to south-eastern parts of the country, mostly to western Tasmania. An easterly onshore airflow brought showers to parts of the Queensland northeast coast. A…
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Authors: Ahmed Hafi, Daniel Spring, Luke Croft, Tom Kompas and Kristopher Morey Red imported fire ant (left) and nest (right).Source: Queensland Government Department of Agriculture and FisheriesIn this report, Cost-effectiveness of biosecurity response options to red imported fire…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 28 June 2023, a northwest cloud band brought widespread rainfall, extending from northern Western Australia to the southeast of the country. Falls of up to 100 millimetres were recorded in northern Western…
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