LivestockAfter a $7 million investment earlier this year, the NSW Government's new plan drops the old reliance on self-reporting and divides the state into high, medium and low-risk areas for cattle tick.
From 18 October all food exporters to Indonesia, including Australian boxed beef shippers, must meet the Halal Product Assurance Law's certification rules; live cattle exports are not affected.
EnvironmentThirty years after a Victorian forestry experiment was abandoned, heavily thinned mountain ash stands hold trees 20% larger than untouched forest and as much carbon or more.
LivestockWith Australia's 205,000-tonne China quota filled in June and a 55 percent tariff now applying, talks are under way to transfer some of Uruguay's large unused 324,000-tonne allocation before the year ends.
FruitsThe plant-derived product triggers grapevines' own defences against Botrytis, leaves no residue and needs no pre-harvest interval; it goes on sale from October 2026.
LivestockOwners of tick-infested Restricted Places in Queensland's tick-free zone must begin a 26-week treatment programme now or face movement limits until mid-2028, with a 25% acaricide subsidy available.
LivestockWritten by feedlot vet Dr Kev Sullivan, the guide brings together research on reducing stress and disease in newly arrived cattle, from weaning and yard education to time off feed in transport.
AgribusinessThe National Farmers' Federation told the Safeguard Mechanism review that carbon offsets can take farmland out of production and that lower thresholds could pull grain and fertiliser sites into the scheme.
LivestockIndustry leaders at BeefEx said more grainfed beef and growing feedlot capacity are Australia's answer to cheap South American beef, with Southeast Asia and the Middle East the markets to win.
LivestockA 3km section of the Clermont-to-Alpha Road is complete, the first early works under a programme to seal nine cattle freight corridors in Central and Western Queensland.
Gundagai Meat Processors preheats boiler water with waste heat from its refrigeration plant, saving about A$135,000 a year on a A$450,000 system and avoiding a new boiler.
CropsUniversity of Queensland and state trials under GRDC will combine sowing date, seeding rate and herbicides to control annual ryegrass and paradoxa grass in northern grain crops.
AgrotechNorthern Genomics data from 34,000 heifers show fertility traits are heritable, so weaning records and genomic tools can pick the cows that do best under the same conditions.
