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Beef Week a booming success

4:00 AM | SOUTHERN stud stock and commercial breeders were treated to an outstanding display of cattle during Stock & Land Beef Week from January 27 to February 3.

Livestock - Cattle

4:00 AM | CLAIMS that imports of Chinese glyphosate have leapt by almost 400 per cent because they are "dumped" in Australia for less than prices at home will be tested by federal customs officials. | Fert prices drop off | Revolutions hamper fertiliser ...

Grains and Cropping - General

Cotton cops a cropping

4:00 AM | AUSTRALIA'S record-sized cotton crop will probably emerge about 10 per cent smaller than originally anticipated when floodwaters in southern Queensland and North West NSW finally recede. | High commodity prices to stay ... | AACo's bumper season

Cotton - General

Harvey Fresh expands east

4:00 AM | PROMINENT western Riverina fruit processing business Nugan Quality Foods (NQF) has been sold to Western Australian juice, wine and dairy foods company, Harvey Fresh. | Carbendazim scare in Brazilian ...

Agribusiness and General - Finance

Grain growers’ conference to help shape industry’s future

4:00 AM | GRAIN growers around Victoria are encouraged to attend the two-night Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Annual Grains Conference in Echuca-Moama on 26-28 February.

Grains and Cropping - General

AWB 2011/12 wheat pools to close in SA and WA

3:30 AM | WITH harvest complete AWB will close its remaining 2011/12 season wheat pools in all South Australian and Western Australia port zones except for the Albany port zone at 5pm Friday 10th February 2012.

Grains and Cropping - Wheat

$620m NBN satellites to connect remotest towns

08 Feb 12 | The Gillard government has announced that the National Broadband Network will spend $620 million on two new satellites to connect some of Australia's most remote towns. |

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Agribusiness and General - General

Angus impressive at Esperance

08 Feb 12 | THE Angus industry in Esperance kicked off to a an impressive start this year with all three of the Angus stud sales held in the region meeting strong competition and solid returns.

Livestock - Cattle

Growing lamb’s share of the meat pie

08 Feb 12 | THE question of how the Australian lamb industry will grow its share in the red meat market pie is the focus of a 12-month research project by WA sheep producer and Sheep CRC scientist Kelly Manton-Pearce.

Livestock - Sheep

Problems flare as solar tender reopened

08 Feb 12 | THE federal government was yesterday forced into reopening the tender process for public funding of its $1.5 billion solar flagship project as doubts mounted over whether the project could ever be financially viable. | Audit finds errors on emissions | Solar power: the dark side of ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Tense wait on Roma sales go-ahead

08 Feb 12 | A DECISION on whether Roma Saleyards is likely to be back in business from next week will be taken tomorrow morning as the district heads into another tense period of road closures and heartbreaking clean-up operations.

Livestock - Cattle

Liberals oppose truckie pay rise

08 Feb 12 | THE transport industry has won support for its campaign to stop a federal law that would raise pay rates for truck drivers amid Coalition accusations that it is a pay rise presented as a safety measure. | Quiet opportunity on AAco front | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt

Agribusiness and General - Finance

Fear CSG could compromise cattle

08 Feb 12 | FARMERS are concerned their livestock and produce could be barred from sale because of chemicals used in coal-seam gas drilling. |

Comments (2) | Abbott clarifies CSG mining ... | CSG groundwater concern

Livestock - Cattle

Gunns shoots up after billionaire takes stake

08 Feb 12 | BILLIONAIRE investor Richard Chandler will inject $150 million into revamping forestry company Gunns, as part of a $280 million capital raising. |

Comments (1) | Gunns bid for more capital | Gunns shares crash to 10.5c

Agribusiness and General - Finance

Peppin-Shaw finally comes of age

08 Feb 12 | THE annual Peppin-Shaw Riverina ewe flock competition has finally reached its 21st birthday, a milestone that had eluded the world class event for five extra years since its inception due to a checkered history of droughts and flooding rains.

Livestock - Sheep

Solar power: the dark side of the sun

08 Feb 12 | IT'S one of our most plentiful natural resources, and it costs us nothing. So why can't Australia, or any other country for that matter, convert rays from the sun into electricity on a mass scale with any degree of success? |

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Agribusiness and General - Finance

Audit finds errors on emissions

08 Feb 12 | JUST months before the carbon tax is introduced, an auditor's report has found that more than one in six major polluters has made ''significant errors'' when reporting its greenhouse emissions and energy use to the government. | AACo's 'green' abattoir punt | Carbon tax only a good start: ...

Agribusiness and General - General

Katter's power plan still on table

08 Feb 12 | THE Gillard government is keeping open the prospect of a $335 million grant for Queensland independent Bob Katter's CopperString power project, even though it has failed a key requirement for the funding.

Agribusiness and General - Political

Don't give Gillard free kicks, says Abbott

08 Feb 12 | TONY ABBOTT has told his MPs that only Coalition ill-discipline can save Labor and Julia Gillard, urging his side to avoid unnecessary fights over principle. | Rudd leads Gillard but voters ... | Carbon tax only a good start: ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Cattle Council defends plan

08 Feb 12 | CATTLE Council of Australia chairman Andrew Ogilvie has taken a swipe at critics of his organisation's planned restructure who have taken to the internet in droves to bag the draft overhaul plan. |

Comments (18) | Cattle Council bid to beef up ...

Livestock - Cattle

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Why health cover needs no subsidies

08 Feb 12 | Despite the untiring efforts of Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott to make themselves seem poles apart in their policies - he/she is hopeless, I'm really good - the ideological gap between the two sides has never been narrower. If you look carefully, that's true even in one of the few remaining points of ideological difference: the funding of healthcare, particularly private health insurance.

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