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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 15 October 2025, cold fronts and low-pressure troughs brought rainfall to parts of northern and southern Australia.Rainfall was generally low across southern cropping regions, while parts of Queensland saw up to 50…
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16 October 2025PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise stakeholders of amendments to the Export Control Rules 2021 (the Rules), applicable to all 3 of the tariff rate quota (TRQ) rules:Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas – General) Rules 2021Export Control (Tariff Rate Quotas – Feed…
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16 October 2025Who does this notice affect?Biosecurity Industry Participants (BIPs) who submit Transhipment of Ship or Aircraft Stores (Ship or Aircraft Stores) lodgements.What has changed?Case name changeThe Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has updated the name of the ‘Ship or…
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16 October 2025Who does this notice affect?Biosecurity Industry Participants (BIPs) who submit Temporary importation lodgements under the Carnet or Customs security pathways.What has changed?The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has made changes to the Biosecurity Import Conditions…
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Carbon farming helps reduce your carbon footprintCarbon farming, as we have seen, reduces GHG emissions and stores carbon, which are essential to Australia’s response to climate change.A ‘carbon footprint’ or ‘greenhouse gas footprint’ is the amount of GHGs emitted minus the amount of carbon stored…
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Carbon farming not only benefits the climate by reducing GHG emissions and storing more carbon. It can also provide other benefits — called co-benefits — including:healthier and more productive soils, better managed and more productive livestock and pasture,…
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Carbon farming
'Carbon farming' describes agricultural and land management activities that help mitigate climate change by:reducing emissions of the main GHGs: methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, by avoiding or minimising themstoring more carbon — also…
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OverviewTopic 1 introduces carbon farming, carbon farming activities, and their purposes, which include:reducing emissionsstoring more carbondelivering economic and other co-benefits to farmers and land managers, the environment and communities.This topic…
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The glossary provides definitions for key words and terms used in the training package.Abatement: a reduction in atmospheric GHGs through emissions avoidance or removal and storage of carbon from the atmosphere.Abatement estimates: estimates of abatement, which may include estimates of potential…
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The National Management Group (NMG) for the National Red Witchweed Eradication Program met on 06 June 2025 and approved a revised Response Plan for 2025-26. The revised Response Plan will build upon the substantial advances made through this response to date and will deliver final eradication…
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