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Red meat proved to be carbon efficient

09 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN red meat production is much more carbon-efficient than often reported in the media, says an important study by the University of NSW. | Rain stalls cattle markets Visit Queensland Country Life

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Lack of water data puts northern food bowl on hold

09 Feb 10 | SAFE drinking water should be secured for people across northern Australia before the nation tries to turn the Top End into the food bowl of Asia, a taskforce has told the Federal Government. |

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Farmers want pastoral north

09 Feb 10 | Farmers remain confident there is the potential for expanding agriculture in northern Australia, despite a federal government review finding that the region will never be a major food bowl. | Kangatarians the latest niche ... | Rudd says no to Top End food bowl | VIDEO: Sky News: More property rights ...

Kangatarians the latest niche in green food market

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USDA changes tack on animal traceability

Robot milkers boost herd potential

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MULTIMEDIA

GALLERY: Photos from the Naracoorte sale

09 Feb 10 | Buyers vied for the limited number of heifers and cows at Naracoorte.

GALLERY: Photos from Barellan Sheep Sale

GALLERY: More photos from the property rights rally

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STATE NEWS

More photos from the property rights rally

09 Feb 10 | A new collection of photos taken at last week's property rights protest at Parliament House, Canberra.

Continued push to prune standing proxies

09 Feb 10 | GRAIN Growers Association (GGA) chairman John Eastburn has vowed to continue to push to lower the number of standing proxies held by board members of the association by attempting to get members to take them back. | Reduce herbicide resistance risk | Canola down, but by how much?

GGA candidate calls for slower reform

Aussies stand by their lamb roast

Bushfire areas not in planning scheme

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Irrigation fix to raise Murray salinity

BILLION-DOLLAR upgrades to Victoria's irrigation sector are expected to raise salinity levels in ... | Bushfire areas not in planning ...

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METRO & REGIONAL

Coalition to offer six months off to parents

09 Feb 10 | A SIX-MONTH scheme of paid parental leave and plans to extend to nannies similar pay and conditions as childcare workers are at the heart of a Coalition policy being designed to woo family and female voters.

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WORLD NEWS

Iran ups the ante in battle with West on uranium

09 Feb 10 | BEIRUT: In a possible move to deflect attention from Iran's political woes, the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has ordered the nation's atomic energy agency to begin enriching uranium from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent purity to serve as fuel for a Tehran medical reactor.

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