31 Dec 09 | Last week’s AWB annual general meeting was vaudeville masquerading as corporate business.
31 Dec 09 | NO MATTER what part of Australia you call home, the agriculture sector has again experienced significant challenges this year with a volatile global economy and weather conditions making it difficult to predict farm incomes.
31 Dec 09 | THE US Department of Homeland Security, which now conducts food and agricultural inspections at US borders, has opened a new Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC) aimed at ensuring the safety of foods imported into the country.
31 Dec 09 | FARMERS are struggling to feed their animals as hay is still in short supply after the fires at Walla and Gerogery on December 17, and the problem is getting worse.
31 Dec 09 | THE National Trust has described as ''desecration'' proposed roadworks to insert a new road and roundabout in the middle of the Bacchus Marsh Avenue of Honour.
31 Dec 09 | LORNE'S Falls Festival was in full swing last night as the last of the 16,000 patrons of the event, 10 kilometres outside Lorne, filed in.
30 Dec 09 | Crossbred ewes made to $190 at today’s annual Casterton New Year sheep and lamb sale.
30 Dec 09 | SCIENTISTS have gained a glimpse into how the koala, one of the nation's most loved creatures, may have acted tens of millions of years ago.
30 Dec 09 | THE US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is producing cellulosic ethanol and processing one tonne a day of feedstock.
30 Dec 09 | AS A ''get out of jail'' card, the Nufarm board could hardly have done better than the deal struck with the Japanese chemicals group Sumitomo, after being left in the financial equivalent of no man's land by its one-time Chinese partner, Sinochem.
30 Dec 09 | BIG is not always better, according to South East dairyfarmers Craig and Cate Cleggett.
30 Dec 09 | AN over-arching organisation to market Australian wheat internationally must be formed – and quickly – says long-time grains industry heavyweight, Tom Keene.
30 Dec 09 | A RECREATIONAL pilot walked away uninjured after being forced to land his aircraft in a paddock in Mollongghip, near Dean, yesterday afternoon.
29 Dec 09 | IT'S got such a simple ring to it: People's Bank. And it's not only pithy, it's also easily understandable and catchy too.
29 Dec 09 | THE federal opposition is considering declaring a war on camels as part of its climate change policy, arguing that the desert pest is responsible for more emissions than the exhaust of 300,000 cars.
29 Dec 09 | KEVIN Rudd has flown back to Australia after a gruelling few days in Copenhagen having just agreed with other world leaders to do, well … not that much on climate change.
29 Dec 09 | RESEARCH into the cause of tree deaths - or dieback - on Mt Warrenheip is yielding results.
29 Dec 09 | TWO drivers were nabbed travelling 50km/h over the speed limit, within four hours of each other on the same stretch of road, outside Ballarat yesterday.
29 Dec 09 | AS WELL as ending up in hospital, a 24-year-old Sunbury man brought himself police attention when a backyard fireworks display backfired.
28 Dec 09 | A MAJOR conference to be held in Melbourne in 2011 will focus the world’s attention on the broad issues of a sustainable planet.
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