22 Dec 06 | THE credibility of the Australian Beef Association has come in for a battering from Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran, who has told the organisation to quit its moaning about national livestock identification system (NLIS). It came in respon
22 Dec 06 | NEW South Wales irrigators stripped of half their precious carryover water this year should be compensated, Federal Government water spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said this week. Mr Turnbull joined the National Water Commission, NSW Farmers and t
22 Dec 06 | FESTIVE cheer is well down the list for Gippsland farmers as they try to come to terms with the fall-out from last Thursday's fierce fire storm. It swept out of control through townships and farmland in central and east Gippsland burning prop
22 Dec 06 | CURRENCY experts believe the Australian dollar could hit US82.50 cents in the first half of 2007. Although still analysing the markets, Commonwealth Bank senior currency strategist Richard Grace has warned a high Australian dollar is likely to
22 Dec 06 | FOR the past five days Department Primary Industries (DPI) Horsham district Veterinary officer Paul Beltz has been scouring thousands of hectares of burnt Gippsland land assessing stock loss. "Given the ferocity of the fire the low numbers of
22 Dec 06 | MORE than 2500 irate Riverina irrigators and community members have told the NSW Government they want compensation for the loss of irrigation water carried over from last season. Already at zero allocations this year, irrigators rallied in Den
22 Dec 06 | FORESTS in far east Gippsland have been neglected and badly managed for so long that townships there are at serious risk of a holocaust-style bushfire, according to Far East Gippsland Wildfire Taskforce president John Mulligan. The taskforce h
22 Dec 06 | PERMANENT interstate water trading by January 1 looks about as likely as full allocations across the Murray Darling Basin, after the NSW Government said this week it would not force irrigation corporations to drop exit fees without further consultati
22 Dec 06 | MURRAY irrigators buying permanent unused water from the drought-affected Goulburn system will for the remainder of the season only be entitled to receive the 23 per cent allocation applying on the Goulburn under snap new trading rules announced by W
22 Dec 06 | AWB has finally received some good news, with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) formally declaring that AWB's payments to Iraq did not constitute bribes to foreign public officials for the purposes of the Income Tax Assessment Act. This means A
22 Dec 06 | IRRIGATORS in the Murray and Goulburn may be able to carry over unused water into next season as part of a drought response measure announced on Tuesday by Water minister John Thwaites. Mr Thwaites said the Department of Sustainability and Environ
22 Dec 06 | The Wheat Export Authority (WEA) has reported that it has been swamped by an incredible 44 separate applications from 20 organisations to export wheat to six different countries as prospective exporters test the waters following the government's
19 Dec 06 | With markets closing for Christmas it was revealed this week cattle throughput for the 12 months increased three per cent nationally to 2.55 million at major reported saleyards compared to last year. The National Livestock Reporting Service said t
19 Dec 06 | Lamb and sheep markets headed to the Christmas break with an encouraging outlook for the new year. In fact prices paid for sheep especially the medium to light grades almost doubled in the final days of trading leaving behind recent depressed rate
19 Dec 06 | Young cattle and cows completed the 2006 selling roster with a stronger demand. The prospects of short supplies during the shutdown of saleyards over the holiday period provided the impetus for the improved inquiry with all but one saleyards to mi
15 Dec 06 | Fires near Mansfield, including the Mt Terrible and Governors fires, are estimated to have burnt 35,400 hectares. Variable winds, due in part to the major fires in the east over the next few days, will make predicting the path of the fire har
15 Dec 06 | PRESSURE is growing on the New South Wales Government to compensate Murray and Murrumbidgee irrigators hit by swingeing cuts to water allocations, with the Federal Government's National Water Commission (NWC) this week joining those criticising t
15 Dec 06 | LABOR'S new man in agriculture has moved quickly to set his mark on the single desk debate, calling for a Productivity Commission-style assessment of the current system. Even before being officially appointed to the position of Shadow Primary
15 Dec 06 | DEMAND for this year's drought-reduced wheat crop is set to exceed supply, as would-be exporters submit their bids with Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran, now the holder of the right of veto on wheat export licences. This week's high
15 Dec 06 | TEMPORARY water in the drought-affected Goulburn Valley sold for up to $998 a megalitre this week as desperate irrigators competed to source scarce supplies. A total of 863ML was traded on the Goulburn Murray Water-run Watermove exchange last
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