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The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Andrew Metcalfe AO, has announced his intention to retire from the Australian Public Service on 4 August 2023. Below is his message to his department, distributed on 13 June 2023.
Colleagues
It is with mixed emotions…
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Outlook to 2050
Authors: Linden Whittle, Peter Lock and Beau Hug
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Australia’s commercial timber plantation estate is fundamental to the sustainability and competitiveness of the Australian forestry sector and growing the estate has been a key Australian Government…
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The tables on this page can be used to calculate how much available tariff rate quota is remaining for all the quotas administered by the Quota Unit at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI-ECTA) quota positionQuota…
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This indicator measures the harvest levels of wood products in relation to future yields. The capacity to implement strategies to deal with changing demand for forest products based on future yields from both native and plantation forests is an integral part of sustainable forest management.This…
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ABARES research and analysis in forest economics and sciences provides professionally independent, world-class advice to inform government and private sector decision-makers on significant issues affecting forests and the forestry sector.Forests overviewAustralia’s State of the Forests ReportForest…
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Water allocation prices in the southern Murray–Darling Basin are likely to remain low for a third consecutive year, according to the latest ABARES Water Market Outlook.
ABARES Executive Director Dr Jared Greenville said based on the current climate outlook from the Bureau of Meteorology, ABARES…
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Biosecurity engagement: Proposed national action plan for community involvement in plant biosecurity (Consultation Summary Report).
Author: Heleen Kruger
An independent review of Australia’s quarantine and biosecurity arrangements for the Australian Government (Beale et al. 2008), stresses that…
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Climate change is having an impact on Australian agriculture, with farmers having to contend with higher temperatures and lower winter rainfall.
Despite these challenges, many farmers are adapting and adopting new technologies and practices to offset these effects.
The latest ABARES figures show…
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