SunRice's largest mill in the southern hemisphere runs at a fraction of capacity after last year's 180,000-tonne harvest, the smallest in six years, and a 22% fall is forecast this summer; the company blames dry seasons and Murray-Darling environmental water purchases that have removed a third of ir
Premier Peter Malinauskas's package puts $100 million into loans of up to $250,000 for small growers and $500,000 for larger ones, with no repayments for two years and 7.2% interest after that, plus $2 million for disposing of chemically treated vine posts and a two-year extension of the Global Wine
One pilot in Western Australia missed a drone by less than 30 metres and only saw it because of a car parked by the highway; the Aerial Application Association says a drone that hits a wing can travel through the aircraft and cut its control cables, and asks operators to look around, post a lookout
The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture is reviving an abandoned Launceston orchard whose trees date to the 1800s, adding 11 varieties from the Grove Research Station as an insurance population and state-supplied heritage trees beside its new $20 million growth facility, with volunteers learning prun
The world's largest tallow exporter shipped about 1.01 million tonnes of rendered products in 2025 — 650,000 t of tallow and used cooking oil plus 360,000 t of protein meals — with value up 26.5%; 65% of fats went to the US and 26% to Singapore for renewable diesel and jet fuel, and prices hover nea
MLA research on 920 cattle, 4,000 samples and 6,000 consumers found neither 120-hour journeys nor road-versus-rail hurt eating quality when animals are fed, watered and rested, so remote producers can now supply Meat Standards Australia branded programmes; Teys says verification from farm to plant u
