Over the coming weeks, Biosecurity Tasmania will be implementing a new online portal to assist beekeepers with managing their registrations.
(13/11/2023)
The headers are out and harvest has started, with some farmers in Western Australia reporting their earliest start to harvest ever.
(1/11/2023)
A new mobile application, MyPestGuide® Trees, is now available to industry, government, and citizen scientists, empowering them to mitigate the impact of invasive pests and diseases on our forests.
(31/10/2023)
Women weren't legally considered farmers until 1994 and, while progress has been made, they are still under-represented in leadership roles.
(17/10/2023)
Australian farmers have produced their most valuable year yet, growing $90 billion worth of food and fibre, and pushing average yearly farm incomes to between $370,000 and $665,000 depending on the sector.
(17/10/2023)
New dairy technology allowing farmers to remotely herd cows has become commercially available in Australia after years of waiting — but it is banned in three major states.
(27/9/2023)
The old, wooden, wool-sorting table gathering dust in the corner of the shearing shed could be worth thousands of dollars, even if its working life is over — or it's in pieces.
(27/9/2023)
When Ali, one of Paul Diamond's "best workers" was badly injured in a traumatic farm accident six months ago, the idea of giving up on the working dog was too hard to bear.
(7/9/2023)
As the problem of food waste continues to mount in Australia, a food policy researcher has raised concerns about the effect of food trends on farmers.
(7/9/2023)
NRM North's Carbon in Pastures project has positively influenced livestock behaviour.
(3/7/2023)
The results of 5-year lime trials in Tasmania's north east have been released in Tomahawk.
(3/7/2023)
Sisters Creek businesswoman, Melissa Duniam has been awarded the 2023 Tasmanian AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award for her trail-blazing approach to professional developments for managers, leaders and communicators.
(24/4/2023)
Registration is for all Tasmanian beekeepers, both recreational and commercial.
(24/4/2023)
The British satellite Inmarsat I-4 F1, which provides services for East Asia and the Pacific regions, is back in operation after an outage on Sunday.
(24/4/2023)
Business disruption can come at any time, but planning before it happens can help your business through an emergency.
(4/1/2023)
When Damien McCulloch agreed to lend his 10-year-old son $1,000 about two years ago, he didn't expect to see the money come back.
Little did he realise it was the start of young Fletcher's blossoming chicken business.
(14/10/2022)
Dunorlan-based farmer, podcaster and founder of Motherland Australia, Stephanie Trethewey, is the 2022 AgriFutures Rural Women's Award winner.
(9/9/2022)
The Bureau of Meteorology's official outlook suggests we are heading towards a soggy spring for eastern Australia but relatively dry in the west.
(25/8/2022)
The federal government has committed millions of dollars to a vaccine campaign to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, leaving some Australian producers wondering why it isn't vaccinating local livestock against the highly contagious virus.
(18/7/2022)
The National Recovery and Resilience Agency are hosting a community outreach event in Campbell Town, Latrobe and Whitemark, Flinders Island.
(10/5/2022)