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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 ...
CSIRO scientist wins major cotton industry award
11:51 AM AEST | A textile technologist with CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Rene van der Sluijs, has won the Australian Cotton Growers’ Research Association Researcher of the Year 2008 award.
Apples for fundraisers
20/08/2008 | The NSW Farmers Association is promoting apples as a healthy alternative for school and child care fundraisers, as well as a delicious treat.
20/08/2008 | The NSW Farmers Association is concerned about safeguards with the NSW Government announcement that it will grant an exploration licence for a five-year period in the Gunnedah area to China Shenhua Energy Company.
Unischool steers storm Clarendon
20/08/2008 | EIGHTEEN schools in the Sydney basin preened and primed steers for the annual Unischool Steer Competition held at the Clarendon Show Grounds on August 16.
Grain supply concerns in Sydney Basin
19/08/2008 | NSW Farmers Association executive councillors have met with Federal Member for Mitchell, Alex Hawke, recently to discuss the concerns and difficulties faced by the intensive industries in securing adequate supplies of grains at reasonable price during drought.
Maccas cop weather whack
19/08/2008 | The peak industry body for the Australian macadamia industry has lowered its crop prediction for this season.
Two-thirds of NSW still in drought
18/08/2008 | THE drought still holds almost two-thirds of NSW in its grip with hardworking families now feeling the pinch at the supermarket checkout, according to Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald.
Lambs in the fast lane
17/08/2008 | A combination of high early growth and lower mature weights is proving critical to the success of the low maintenance, low input specialist prime lamb flock at “Sonning”, Holbrook.
Ramping up on ryes
17/08/2008 | A $1.4 million upgrade to Dubbo’s 100-year-old flour mill will let Central West croppers deliver a greater range of cereal crops to the local processor at harvest later this year.
Kosciuszko closes
16/08/2008 | The final mob of cattle has been cajoled through Kosciuszko National Park.
Dog barrier reclaims the Tallangatta
15/08/2008 | It’s not a barrier as imposing as the Great Wall of China, but it will be enough to keep wild dogs at bay and could mean Victorian border graziers in the Tallangatta Valley can go back to grazing sheep.  | More time to plan RLPBs’ own fate
Rice looks northward
15/08/2008 | Up to 700 hectares of rice looks set to be planted on the rain-flushed NSW North Coast this summer as the region’s sugar and grain growers take up the call to help fill the gap in Australia’s rice industry created by the water-starved Murray-Darling.
Get ready - here come the hoppers
15/08/2008 | Almost 100 Rural Lands Protection Board (RLPB) staff are in training to battle the return of the plague locust this spring, with hatchings expected to start as early as next week.
What’s your number?
15/08/2008 | They are cropping up across the countryside, blossoming in all their reflective glory on every rural property gate and on road signs across the State.
Pork and bacon prices rise as Aust supply shrinks
14/08/2008 | Pork and bacon prices have been rising throughout winter as domestic supply continues to shrink.
No surprise at Greenethorpe
14/08/2008 | Greenthorpe farmer, Chris Wills, “Braeside”, is not surprised the Golden Rewards system of wheat quality payments – with prospective $35 a tonne losses – will disappear with market deregulation.  | CommentsComments (1) | Wheat falls over cliff
14/08/2008 | AWB Ltd’s decision to ditch its popular “Golden Rewards” wheat payment system is emerging as a major issue in a new deregulated wheat market – even among farmers who support deregulation of the export trade.  | CommentsComments (3) | No surprise at Greenethorpe
14/08/2008 | Boards (RLPBs) in the NSW Western Division now have until the end of the month – three weeks extra – to decide what they want their boundaries to look like under the looming “super board” reforms.
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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?
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