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30 Mar 2005 | Farmers getting richer, despite the drought
Farmers usually say that things are always crook in the bush, but these days they would be kidding. ...... FULL STORY
30 Mar 2005 | SA farmers back conservation levy to aid the Murray
South Australian farmers backed calls by Environment Victoria for a levy on goods produced in the River Murray basin. ...... FULL STORY
30 Mar 2005 | Pratt pushes property rights over conserved water
Businessman Richard Pratt called for a more business like approach to attracting private investment to water saving projects, including a clear and unequivocal property right to the water saved. ...... FULL STORY
29 Mar 2005 | Parkes at centre of rail investment dream
Chris Corrigan's Patrick Corp is among backers of a proposed railway infrastructure investment for an inland line that would link Melbourne and Brisbane and serve the grain and livestock belt of western NSW. ...... FULL STORY
29 Mar 2005 | Cattle tick deaths lead to quarantine in NSW north coast
The NSW Department of Primary Industries has quarantined a number of properties on the state’s north coast, with confirmation that 13 head of cattle have died of suspected tick fever. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2005 | Murray-Darling enters fifth year of drought
The four years to February 2005 were the driest on record in the Murray-Darling water catchment, which covers one million square kilometres. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2005 | Land clearing penalty toughened for recalcitrant cane farmer
A Queensland court ordered a cane farm to pay a fine five times higher than that ordered by a lower court for clearing 13.2ha of a National Park - land he was to hand over for an earlier clearing offence. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2005 | Tully banana growers cleared of disease
North Queensland banana growers are waiting for the Queensland government to declare the Tully region free of the exotic disease black sigatoka. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2005 | Farmers say conditions look brighter
Farmers, particularly Victorian dairy farmers, are a bit happier, but low prices are still keeping the spirits of most on the land subdued, Rabobank's latest rural confidence survey has found. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2005 | Riverland farmers look north for labour
Horticulturists in the Riverland district will fly in workers from Cape York in far north Queensland in a bid to alleviate labour shortages. ...... FULL STORY
22 Mar 2005 | Grain productivity growth double that of other farms
The grain industry has achieved the highest rise in productivity in agriculture, with a rise of three per cent a year for the past two decades, or close to double the rate of the average farming enterprise. ...... FULL STORY
22 Mar 2005 | Skilled migrants welcomed in the bush
The federal government will make migration by skilled workers willing to fill vacancies in rural and remote areas easier. ...... FULL STORY
22 Mar 2005 | Farming a high skill, knowledge industry
Technological intensity is driving rises in labour productivity right across agriculture, with an overall rise in productivity of 60 per cent over the past 10 years, according to the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics. ...... FULL STORY
22 Mar 2005 | Second sugar subsidy may be paid soon
Canegrowers, the sugar industry lobby, said the second tranche of the sustainability grant may be paid soon. ...... FULL STORY
21 Mar 2005 | Trio take aim at export bottlenecks
Sydney Airports chief Max Moore-Wilton, economist Henry Ergas and commodities bureaucrat Brian Fisher will review the bottlenecks facing exporters. ...... FULL STORY
21 Mar 2005 | Feds deflect Nats over fibre cable for the bush
A report by the Nationals' think tank, the Page Research Centre, wants the government to build and own a fibre optic cable network, which it reckons will cost as little as $7 billion. ...... FULL STORY
18 Mar 2005 | Canker introduced four years ago
The origins of the citrus canker outbreak in the Emerald district of Queensland appear to relate to the importing on to the Evergreen Farms orchard of cuttings and seed from the US and Asia. ...... FULL STORY
17 Mar 2005 | Geographic names squabble drags on
Both sides have claimed victory in a trade fight pitting the United States and Australia against the European Union, centring on the right of foreign exporters to use geographic food names... ...... FULL STORY
17 Mar 2005 | Kuwait agrees to quarantine facility for live sheep imports
The federal government reached a new agreement with Kuwait which would control the export of live animals, predominantly sheep, a trade worth more than $70 million to Australian farmers. ...... FULL STORY
16 Mar 2005 | Third outbreak of citrus canker in central Queensland
The Primary Industries Department said surveillance officers found evidence of citrus canker in the Selma Road orchard near Emerald in Queensland’s Central Highlands operated by the 2PH Group. ...... FULL STORY
15 Mar 2005 | Queensland farmers pick environmentalist as new chief
The Queensland Farmers Federation said it hired Australian Democrats senator John Cherry as its new chief executive. ...... FULL STORY
15 Mar 2005 | Farms still a key driver of economic activity
Farms and the industries and businesses which rely on them account for 12 per cent of Australia's annual economic output, research by the Australian Farm Institute found. ...... FULL STORY
14 Mar 2005 | Interest rate subsidies tide farmers through drought
A new study by the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics shows that that the average farm in receipt of interest rate subsidies from the federal government incurred a loss of $84,000 in 2002... ...... FULL STORY
14 Mar 2005 | Few follow in father’s footsteps
There were more than 17,000 farmers between the ages of 18 and 35 in Australia in 1980. ...... FULL STORY
11 Mar 2005 | Rent reduced on ghost roads
The New South Wales government said it would reduce road rents paid by farmers and also reduce the cost of buying the roads from the government. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2005 | Golden Circle back in the black
The Golden Circle's beetroot and pineapple co-operative returned to profit in the December 2004 half year, with a profit of $7.4 million. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2005 | One per cent levy imposed on farm chemicals
Farm chemicals will cost more following a decision by the federal government to impose a levy of 0.9 per cent. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2005 | Farm service giants throw manure over fertiliser supply deals
Futuris Corporation, parent company of the Elders farm services network, yesterday accused fertiliser giant Incitec Pivot of misleading the market about developments in the fertiliser supply business... ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2005 | States sign up to National Water Initiative
The New South Wales government said it would sign up to the federal government’s National Water Initiative. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2005 | Farmers fenced in by excessive rules
Farmers often complain about the cost of red tape, and now a new study by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics shows they may be right. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2005 | Planned cuts to farm subsidies a mirage
A new trade framework means a deal with the US and the Europe may well be a fraud, ABARE warns. ...... FULL STORY
8 Mar 2005 | Beef producers seek to hold Japan export share
Federal agriculture minister Warren Truss said Australian beef producers should not expect US producers to steal much share of the beef market in Japan, once Japan allows US producers to sell beef once again. ...... FULL STORY
7 Mar 2005 | Telstra sales bandwagon rolls in Queensland bush
Telstra chair Donald McGauchie and Minister Helen Coonan are back on the bush trail, selling the merits of selling Telstra. ...... FULL STORY
7 Mar 2005 | Chicken growers unite for negotiations with processors
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will allow Victorian chicken growers to collectively bargain the terms and conditions of growing contracts with their processors. ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2005 | Farmers blue over labour shortage
Farm organisations and regional governments want the federal government to allow farmers to employ workers from overseas on temporary permits. ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2005 | ABARE promotes options contracts for irrigators
Options contracts that transfer water rights from irrigators to the environment have the potential to deliver cost effective environmental outcomes, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics argued at the Outlook conference in Canberra. ...... FULL STORY
3 Mar 2005 | Wimmera Mallee pipeline secures funding
The Victorian government said it would sign up to the federal government’s National Water Initiative in order to secure federal funding for the Wimmera Mallee pipeline. ...... FULL STORY
3 Mar 2005 | Telstra told to maintain payphones
The federal government will require Teslstra to ensure that public payphone services remain “reasonably accessible” following privatisation, and also to maintain its network of Countrywide offices. ...... FULL STORY
2 Mar 2005 | Farm incomes to fall over the next year
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics predicts average farm incomes in the broadacre industries would fall to $61,500 next financial year, falling from $67,040 in 2004/05. ...... FULL STORY
2 Mar 2005 | NFF boss lead farm policy review
National Farmers Federation chair Peter Corish will lead a year-long government review of agriculture and food production in Australia. ...... FULL STORY
1 Mar 2005 | GM canola flowers in western districts
Bayer CropScience confirmed it was growing four experimental genetically modified crops near Horsham and Hamilton in the western districts of Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
1 Mar 2005 | Farm policy review promised
The federal government will undertake a wide-ranging review of the agricultural economy and government policy. ...... FULL STORY
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