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Wheat still profitable, despite surge in input costs
4:57 PM AEST | Private forecaster Australian Wheat Forecasters’ Ron Storey concedes that wheat's input costs are much higher, due to the “blow-out” in fertiliser and chemical prices. “Fortunately, that’s coincided with higher grain prices,” he says.  | Crunch vote tomorrow for AWB ... | WA GM ban extension 'a tragedy'
4:11 PM AEST | A six-year-old cow in Alberta, Canada, was confirmed to have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) at the weekend.  | Foot & mouth outbreak model ... | Roma cattle influx: 11,500 head
Elders posts record $60m earnings
4:00 PM AEST | Elders Rural Services boss Mike Guerin was able to hand out some good news last week as he prepares to push the button on a sweeping corporate restructure by announcing who will head the company's 20 new management regions.  | SA first: Region-wide wireless ... | SA first: Region-wide wireless ...
Improving hort returns
3:51 PM AEST | Some of broadacre farming’s big productivity improvement secrets need to be adopted by the horticulture sector – particularly in its underperforming tropical fruit and nut crops.  | Macadamia crop estimates ... | Macadamia crop estimates ...
Silver bullet mulesing mystery
3:45 PM AEST | The “silver bullet” being discussed – by some – as likely to help resolve the mulesing issue remains a bit of a mystery to most woolgrowers and many directors of Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), the organisation developing it.  | New wool boss: we have not ... | New wool boss: we have not ...
Crunch vote tomorrow for AWB change
3:34 PM AEST | On the eve of the historic vote, two South Australian farmers who helped formed AWB's constitution in the late 1990s have thrown their support behind the company's proposed changes.
CSIRO researchers win rural research awards
3:29 PM AEST | CSIRO’s Dr Anthony Keyburn and Chris Cowled were among the winners at the Smart Geelong Network’s Researcher of the Year Awards dinner last weekend.
NSW Farmers blasts Hume Highway delay
3:22 PM AEST | The NSW Farmers’ Association says the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) is taking too long to make decisions regarding the upgrade of the Hume Highway in Southern NSW, and this delay is affecting rural people’s lives and businesses.  | Drought support 'timely': NSW ... | Qld re-affirms compulsory 5pc ...
3:16 PM AEST | Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industries and Water, David Llewellyn, has updated to Parliament on drought assistance provided to farmers and rural communities.  | Drought support for 32 areas ... | Drought support 'timely': NSW ...
3:04 PM AEST | Researchers have completed the first stage of development work on a comprehensive model of the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in cattle to evaluate policy surrounding the management of FMD and other exotic diseases should an outbreak occur in Australia.
Fickle season hits quality, but top lambs reach $134/head
3:03 PM AEST | Almost a third of the young lambs at Bendigo, Vic on Monday were severely drought-affected. As a result, prices for these lambs were well below budget - at between $30- $65/head. But quality sucker lambs reached $134/head.  | Lamb prices ease, despite ... | Live sheep shipments hold ... | VIDEO: Fickle season hits Bendigo lamb ...
Drought support for 32 areas nationally
2:29 PM AEST | Drought support for 32 areas nationally has been extended to March 31, 2009 by the federal government. Exceptional Circumstances aid was due to expire in most places on September 30.  | Drought support 'timely': NSW ... | Interest rate cut needed, ...
2:28 PM AEST | Yorke Peninsula in South Australia has become the nation’s first community to successfully achieve a region-wide, broadband service, using WiMAX wireless technology.
Drought support 'timely': NSW Farmers
2:23 PM AEST | The NSW Farmers’ Association says the announcement by the Federal Government to extend Exceptional Circumstances assistance until early next year for a number of areas in NSW is timely and welcome.  | Interest rate cut needed, ... | Zero allocation for northern ...
Wool prices open firm, holding last week's 3.2pc gain
2:21 PM AEST | This week's wool market has opened on Tuesday with prices holding fully firm on last week's, maintaining all of last week's 3.2pc lift in the eastern market indicator.  | Supercat ban a win for woolgrowers | Wool prices jump 3.2pc, lifted ...
Feathers will fly in school chook challenge!
12:41 PM AEST | Did you know that more than two thirds of Australians believe that hormones are added to chicken or that chickens are genetically modified to make them grow fatter and plumper than they were 20 years ago? Not true!
WA GM ban extension 'a tragedy'
12:34 PM AEST | WA Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association, Leon Bradley says the WA Carpenter Government, in opposing GM crops, continues to ignore the most successful innovation in farming since the plough.  | Defrosting crop costs with ... | Bright harvest prospects, but ...
Defrosting crop costs with thermal imaging
12:25 PM AEST | Using the latest infrared thermal imaging equipment, a Qld Department of Primary Industries crop physiology team has produced the first ever images of reproductive winter cereal plants freezing under natural frost conditions in the field.
Roma cattle influx: 11,500 head
11:21 AM AEST | Such a huge yarding, 11,500 head, could have been expected to test eastern Australia's benchmark Roma, Qld, store cattle market on Tuesday. Instead, prices lifted by 2-3pc for most types, with weaner steers up 5c/kg, to a top of 228c/kg.  | Good start to cattle prices ... | Top price $15,000- av. $4,999 ... | VIDEO: 11,500 head at Roma, Qld, store ...
Bright harvest prospects, but concern over frost damage
20/08/2008 | The soaring price of fertiliser and chemical input costs hasn’t daunted the push by Queensland growers into expanded wheat acreage. Harvest prospects looks good, but mounting concerns over frost damage in the past fortnight are starting to emerge.  | Risk to canola exports from ... | Late planting decision looms
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Buy back the water licences; then what happens Mr Rudd?

17/08/2008 | The Federal Government has bolstered the cash available to buy back water licences, the greens have published their wishlist of properties to be targeted, and the drought has more farmers than ever classing themselves as 'willing sellers'. But after the water is gone, has anyone wondered what happens next?
  Voter unrest starts to bite Labor
  ACCC misses the price point
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