4/07/2008 | Water trading caps that Victorian farmers wanted kept in tact are likely to be relaxed within 18 months, but environmental groups are adamant that it won't be enough to revive the health of the Murray River.
4/07/2008 | Australia will suffer more from climate change than any other developed nation and must take the lead in global action to tackle the problem, Professor Ross Garnaut will argue in his report today.
3/07/2008 | NSW is the big money winner from today's COAG intergovernmental agreement on the Murray Darling Basin, set to receive more than $1.3 billion for major works to help reform water use in the system as part of $3.7B in new Federal funding for the rescue works.
3/07/2008 | After Australia's driest May on record, June 2008 brought some relief, especially to northern NSW, southern Queensland and the central Northern Territory, but the same could not be said for parts of South Australia and Victoria.
3/07/2008 | Increased winter crop production and strong global commodity prices are expected to underpin an increase in farm production and incomes in 2008-09, but fast-rising input costs have resulted in a downward revision of this year's farm income estimates, according to the National Australia Bank.
3/07/2008 | Higher food and fuel costs and other economic pressures are having a critical impact on how consumers shop, cook and dine, according to the Food Marketing Institute, which represents US supermarket systems.
3/07/2008 | There is a "quiet carbon revolution" taking place on farms across Australia, with thousands of farmers joining a voluntary soil carbon movement adopting specialised cropping and pasture practices to improve yields and income, while measuring loads of carbon storage on their farms.
3/07/2008 | The NSW Farmers' Association is reminding primary producers that they can now claim 38c per litre of fuel tax credits for petrol and other taxable fuels used on their farm, following tax changes that came into place this week.
3/07/2008 | Wesfarmers chairman Trevor Eastwood has today announced he will be stepping down from his post at the company's annual general meeting in November.
3/07/2008 | The South Australian Government is pushing for Commonwealth support for more than $500 million in priority projects that could result in water savings of more than 100 gigalitres of water in the Murray Darling Basin system.
3/07/2008 | The National Farmers' Federation wants the Federal Government to actively petition for new accounting rules under the Kyoto Protocol to ensure agriculture's sequestration of carbon is acknowledged.
3/07/2008 | The Iemma Government estimates it will cost $660 million to drought-proof Broken Hill in NSW's far west - about $30,000 per head of population - and it wants Canberra to contribute money if the plans are to proceed.
3/07/2008 | In a move which could threaten the national Murray Darling rescue plan, Victorian Premier John Brumby will seek to protect his State's control of water supplies by blocking moves to lift the cap on water trading.
3/07/2008 | University of Adelaide grains researcher Tom Giles believes that emerging technologies will be a major asset in the State agriculture sector's management of climate change.
2/07/2008 | WA farmers face opportunities and challenges, with inflation and price volatility expected to be a serious hurdles in the near term, but in the long time the maxim 'get big or get out' still applies.
2/07/2008 | Australian agriculture has the ability to respond profitably to limited amounts of climate change, but it needs further investment in research and the willingness to take climate change seriously.
2/07/2008 | The Murray-Darling Basin Commission says emergency measures being taken to avoid acidification in South Australia's Lower lakes at the bottom of the Murray system are actually working.
2/07/2008 | NSW Minister for Water, Nathan Rees has taken further steps to protect groundwater and surface water supplies in the stressed Murray-Darling Basin.
2/07/2008 | Irrigators in NSW have been greeted with mixed news today, with some areas in the north receiving 100pc of their allocation, while those in the parched southern half of the State have received nothing.
2/07/2008 | State premiers and the Prime Minister will nut out the final agreement on the national plan for the Murray Darling Basin at a meeting in Sydney tomorrow.