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Irrigators are people, too

Posted: 23 Jun 09 | Irrigators have become symbols of greed and wastefulness. Take a closer look, and they turn out to be just people trying to make a living. |

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Killing the volunteer spirit

Posted: 28 May 09 | The push for every NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer to get training certificates doesn't help the volunteer spirit that built Australia's fire brigades. |

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Reflections on a barbecued moth

Posted: 18 May 09 | Putting moths to work. |

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Agriculture fails emissions trading fundamentals

Posted: 18 May 09 | There was a glum irony plastered over the banners at the recent Australian Farm Institute conference on emissions trading: the event's chief sponsor was Land & Water Australia, which the day before learned it was getting the axe from Canberra. |

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The NFF and Plimer: heading up a dry gully

Posted: 04 May 09 | The NFF's decision to make climate change dissenter Professor Ian Plimer the keynote speaker at its National Congress is a recipe for political inertia. |

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Beavers and the Murray: Part 2

Posted: 09 Apr 09 | Two lateral-thinking men have greatly improved water management on their farms using some thoughtful engineering and reeds. Are reeds Australia's beaver? |

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Beavers and the Murray: Part 1

Posted: 08 Apr 09 | A book written about fur trapping in Canada in the 1930s shines an interesting light on stream management in contemporary Australia. |

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At peace with global warming

Posted: 27 Mar 09 | Is global warming anything to be concerned about, anyway? |

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Time to rethink the CPRS?

Posted: 18 Mar 09 | Emissions trading may prove too complex to implement, or too simplistic to carry agriculture. So, what's the next idea? |

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How will ag find new productivity gains?

Posted: 11 Mar 09 | It was hard to find a speaker at Outlook 2009 who didn’t mention productivity. |

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Choosing how to change

Posted: 11 Dec 08 | Are the forces reshaping the world going to reshape agriculture? And if the answer is yes, is agriculture going to do the changing, or will change be done to it? |

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The 'roo needs revision

Posted: 26 Nov 08 | If we're serious about roo farming, we'll need to start with a breeding program and kangaroo EBVs for marbling and tenderness. |

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On wool and warfare

Posted: 21 Nov 08 | AWI's new board can only succeed in old battles by fighting in new ways. |

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Conservation cows out to change ag's image

Posted: 13 Nov 08 | Cattle are getting a bad rap these days, so it's refreshing to see Britain's venerable National Trust getting into the business of "conservation cows". |

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Carbon: the next big farm commodity?

Posted: 07 Nov 08 | Carbon trading isn't going to go away. That's not necessarily a bad thing for agriculture. |

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Telstra gets competitive on wireless

Posted: 22 Oct 08 | Telstra's wireless broadband pricing is at last starting to look attractive. But too little, too late? |

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What Garrett can learn from NSW

Posted: 17 Oct 08 | Poorly considered State native vegetation acts damaged the movement toward agricultural land stewardship. Peter Garrett's proposal to extend the national conservation estate risks further alienating farmers from the conservation movement. |

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