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<description><![CDATA[Out here, with Matt Cawood, wondering how it all works.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmers, too, can learn from Apple]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The great success of technology manufacturer Apple contains lessons for farmers in the way they manage their supply chain, writes Matthew Cawood.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NBN just one of life's necessities]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FOR more than a decade now, with a minor interruption, I've been working for Rural Press from an area of northern NSW that standard road maps portray as mostly blank.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Leading the charge away from fossil fuels]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Australians were at their best during the recent floods and cyclone: selfless, supportive and innovative. Pity that the evolutionary path that gave us great crisis reflexes didn't do much to equip us for crises of a more slow-burning nature.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Consulting the tea leaves, post-flood]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rural Press science and environment writer Matthew Cawood peers into the future to find out what comes next following the floods.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Whatever the outcome, farmers deserve GM choice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[STEPHEN Marsh mightn't be happy, but the contamination of his organic farm in WA by genetically modified canola is no bad thing for the farming community in general.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time to build on our alternative agriculture]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is safe to assume that Australian agriculture will always ride on export-orientated commodity food production. The mathematics of producing food enough for 60 million in a country of 21 million says so.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time will judge the independents' choice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s too early to judge whether Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott pulled the right rein in choosing Labor to govern the next term. The appropriate time will be in roughly 20 years.
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's get serious about soil carbon]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[POLITICIANS of all persuasions have had a hard time being nice to farmers in ways that don’t upset larger, more vociferous and vindictive sections of the voting public.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Armidale beef forum demands democracy, gags dissent]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Armidale Beef Industry Forum began with a long prayer. That was the first unusual thing.
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When soil carbon is not in the national interest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE sporting phrase, the Coalition plan has soil carbon peaking too early.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ag not in ETS, but definitely not out]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Senator Wong is not a woman who does backflips, even in the privacy of her own home. Agriculture might not be “in” the ETS, but by no means is it “out”, either.
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change can pay for agriculture's inevitable evolution]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The pressures that climate change policy will place on agriculture are not very different to the changes agriculture will have to make anyway. The difference is that under an emissions trading scheme, change might be subsidised.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Climate Institute's paper is a burr under ag's saddle]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Climate Institute's discussion paper on how agriculture might participate in emissions trading is notable for two reasons: it exists, and it doesn't sugar-coat its ideas. 
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Toorale Carbon Research Park]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Locking up Toorale Station is a waste of a resource that might help resolve some questions of pressing interest. Toorale Station should become Toorale Carbon Research Park.
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Better food, not just more]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The agricultural productivity equation should be about stacking more into each gram, not just more from each hectare.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Desperately seeking solid science]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The debate on climate change science must be conducted through channels that discriminate between sound science and the rest. Otherwise, what should be a scientific debate comes down to faith that one side or the other has a monopoly on the truth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Irrigators are people, too]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:21:19 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Killing the volunteer spirit]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 11:54:49 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reflections on a barbecued moth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Putting moths to work.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:42:48 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agriculture fails emissions trading fundamentals]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 23:50:40 GMT</pubDate>
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