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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 16 August 2023, frontal systems and a trough brought showers to southern parts of Australia. Up to 50 millimetres of rainfall was recorded in parts of Western Australia, eastern New South Wales and in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 19 July 2023, a high-pressure system kept much of Australia dry. Fronts passing over southern Australia brought some rainfall to parts of south-western Western Australia and western Tasmania. Meanwhile…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 22 March 2023, surface troughs and thunderstorm activity brought rainfall to the north and east of the country. Weekly rainfall totals of between 15 and 100 millimetres were recorded across most of the…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 17 May 2023, high-pressure systems kept much of the country dry. Fronts and troughs brought isolated showers to southern parts of Australia. Meanwhile, moist onshore flow coupled with a low-pressure system…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateDue to Anzac Day public holiday, the Weekly Australian Climate, Water and Agricultural Update will not be published next week Thursday 25 April 2024. The next Weekly Update will be published on Thursday 2 May 2024.Key issuesIn the week ending…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 15 May 2024, inland Queensland, eastern South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales recorded rainfall totals between 50 and 100 millimetres. Far south-west Western Australia recorded rainfall totals between 25 and…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 28 August 2024, a high-pressure system kept much of the country mainly dry, with rainfall largely in the southwest and southeast of the country.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals ranging from 5 to 50…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 18 September 2024, a series of cold fronts and low-pressure systems brought rainfall to parts of northern and south-eastern Australia, with other areas largely dry.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between…
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News and AlertsNote: This page will be decommissioned on 12 November 2025 and replaced with Emergency measures for tomato and capsicum seed.Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) was detected in August 2024 in the Northern Adelaide Plains, South Australia.The detection is the first time the virus…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jay Gomboso
The southern Murray–Darling Basin has around one-fifth of Australia’s total dairy farms. In 2014–15 irrigated dairy production contributed 17 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Basin (ABS 2016).
Dairy farming in…
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