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Our People: Back in black
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SHELTER from the storm soon turned into a new business venture and lifestyle change for Bud and Lana Stephenson.
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Trials prove strengths of durum
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SARDI issues net blotch alert
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Bushfire response should be prevention: AFI
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THE best fire-fighting units available are worthless in the face of a bushfire whipped up by heavy fuel loads - so why does bushfire policy pay such scant attention to fire prevention?
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US animal standards fight restarts in Ohio
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The Ohio House voted 90 to 0 last week to establish the Ohio Livestock Standards Board.
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SE can be Aust's future salad bowl
20 Mar 10 |
POPULATION pressure in traditional vegetable growing areas, water quality and good growing conditions all point to the Mount Gambier district being Australia's summer salad bowl.
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Pt Augusta to boost local ...
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Govt commits $632m to GP shortage
20 Mar 10 |
THE understated difficulty in seeing a doctor in the bush underscored the Government's latest big health announcement to significantly boost training places for general practitioners.
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Something fishy about 60 Minutes ag chemicals story
19 Mar 10 |
CHANNEL Nine program 60 Minutes is planning to run a story on chemical use within the Australian agriculture industry on Sunday night.
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Fertiliser shortage on the cards
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Irrigators hail on-farm funds as a win-win
19 Mar 10 |
THE National Irrigators’ Council has welcomed the long-awaited announcement of the first round of funding for the Commonwealth Government’s $300 million On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program.
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Health from an eggshell
19 Mar 10 |
ABOUT 60 years ago, Hollis Osborne bought a feed supply business at the border of Missouri and Arkansas and built it into one of the country's five largest commercial egg producers: Moark LLC.
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Eggs, meat important to fetus
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Climate needs "science" focus
19 Mar 10 |
CAUGHT off-balance by the politicisation of climate science, Australia’s major climate agencies are trying to wrest the global warming debate away from opinion columns, blog sites and the front steps of Parliament House, and bring it all back to the science.
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Feds must step in to manage flood water
19 Mar 10 |
THERE are calls for the Federal Government to step in and manage all big future floods, following confirmation this week of extra flows from the big Queensland wet to South Australia.
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Flood of promises to secure water
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El Niño conditions persist in Pacific
19 Mar 10 |
SEA surface temperatures across the central tropical Pacific have shown little change over the past fortnight, and hence remain at levels typical of an El Niño event.
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Abbott carbon plan 'unworkable'
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Macquarie interest in grain business elevated
19 Mar 10 |
DEREGULATION of the grain markets in Australia has sparked plenty of interest from offshore market participants.
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Radio-savvy snakes used to spy on cane toads
19 Mar 10 |
THE cane toad's impact on native snakes will be tracked by radio-transmitters surgically implanted in 20 wild pythons.
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Seven habits of highly ...
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The toads are a-comin'...
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Abandoned camp fire triggers bush blaze
19 Mar 10 |
Careless campers were responsible for a bushfire that threatened a South West property, the Department of Environment and Conservation said.
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Esperance farms in need of rain
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Life in the shadow of coal central
19 Mar 10 |
THE massive expansion of the mining industry in the Upper Hunter Valley is making people sick, say concerned residents who have campaigned for a decade for the government to establish independent air-quality monitoring and to conduct a proper health study.
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Water falls short of pipeline promise
19 Mar 10 |
A PROMISE to bring 75 billion litres to Melbourne through the north-south pipeline this year is likely to fall short, after meagre flows and multiple shutdowns have hampered the project's first weeks.
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Town on alert as backburn races away
19 Mar 10 |
A BUSHFIRE was within six kilometres of the central Victorian town of Raglan yesterday after a fuel-reduction burn jumped its containment lines.
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Fire service funding 'flawed'
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Tropical Cyclone Ului on the move: next stop QLD
19 Mar 10 |
SEVERE Tropical Cyclone Ului continues to move slowly towards the QLD coast and is predicted to make landfall between Cardwell and Yeppoon sometime over the coming weekend.
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NT drying up
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Vic support of climate-altering tech talks slammed
19 Mar 10 |
THE Victorian government is facing criticism for its headline support of an international conference promoting ''geo-engineering'' - controversial techniques to alter the climate in the event of catastrophic global warming.
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Web guide offers ways to cut food waste bill
19 Mar 10 |
A KILOGRAM of meat can cost as little as $5, but few people realise the true ''paddock-to-plate'' cost of their food, say the creators of a new website designed to boost the nation's food IQ.
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