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App-lied agriculture

Posted: 21 Mar 12 | IF YOU are reading this and you are a farmer, it could be assumed – quite often a dangerous thing to do – that you are an embracer of new technologies and your daily ways of sourcing information will have changed rapidly over the past ten years. |

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NBN - what’s in a name?

Posted: 29 Feb 12 | COULD as simple an oversight as naming it the "National" Broadband Network explain the lack of concessions for rural and regional net users, asks Claire Delahunty. |

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Shining a light on foreign investment

Posted: 01 Feb 12 | IT’S rather fitting that the debate about foreign ownership of Australian farm land has reached its hottest point as we enter 2012, the Year of the Farmer. |

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Slaps, strikes all growing pains for India

Posted: 09 Jan 12 | IN New Delhi at the end of November, an anti-corruption protestor landed a slap on the cheek of Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. So when I landed in India’s capital a few days later, I was curious to learn more about the mood of the country’s millions of farmers. |

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Changing the game in biological controls

Posted: 29 Nov 11 | TURNS out we're no longer "playing roulette" with biological controls - new technologies are "game-changing", says the Invasive Animals CRC. |

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Playing roulette with biological controls

Posted: 08 Nov 11 | A Kazakhstani fighter for the coddling moth, a re-modified virus from China for the rabbits, and a herpes strain first identified in Israel for the marauding carp; it seems Australia’s feral pest population might be facing an expansive international spring clean. |

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Beware China's growing pains

Posted: 18 Oct 11 | THE way in which a country shapes its agrarian landscape often says a lot about the model of society, governance and even culture which defines a nation. What has happened over the last decade in Huaxi certainly says a lot about China, writes Claire Delahunty. |

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Labour deal an important drop in the Pacific

Posted: 26 Sep 11 | OPENING up access for more overseas horticultural workers is a step in the right direction for solving ag's labour shortages, writes CLAIRE DELAHUNTY. |

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Strange bedfellows in CSG battle

Posted: 13 Sep 11 | YOU know it's strange times when you see Friends of the Earth, the Greens, GetUp and farmers referenced in the one breath, writes Claire Delahunty. |

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Roo crisis nibbles at farm gates

Posted: 24 Aug 11 | IT HAS been three years since the Australian Kangaroo industry last had its robust trade-flows with Russia in place, and the signs of an industry-in-limbo are becoming ever-more blatant in rural communities. |

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Testing times for protein production

Posted: 16 Aug 11 | WILL your next hamburger come from meat grown in a laboratory, and are you game enough to eat it? |

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Roo trade hangs in balance

Posted: 02 Aug 11 | THE trials and tribulations of the cattle industry may be at the fore, but where is the support for those the kangaroo industry employs, who are also facing great peril, asks Claire Delahunty. |

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Perfect time for rural MPs in the spotlight

Posted: 27 Jun 11 | As issues such as food and water security bring farming to the forefront of public discussion, it is perhaps no coincidence that we in Australia are seeing an eclectic mix of rural politicians rise to prominence, writes Claire Delahunty. |

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Reputation the true cost of export scandal

Posted: 14 Jun 11 | WHILE this may be the largest live export furore, it's certainly not the first. Hopefully, it will be the last, writes Claire Delahunty. |

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Do trees talk about the weather?

Posted: 31 May 11 | RECENT research from North America shows that when it comes to El Nino, maybe the trees are trying to tell us something, writes Claire Delahunty. |

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Bounty: Sweet deal or major toothache?

Posted: 16 May 11 | IT IS a part of urban legend that the late Saddam Hussein’s favourite chocolate snack was a Bounty bar. But what’s causing something of a stir in farming at the moment is the use of the bounty as a weapon in the arsenal against vertebrate pests. |

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