Rural Review

YOU’D be hard pressed to find a primary producer who supports a new biosecurity levy that comes in to effect from July 1. Up to…

WHAT’S got your goat? Perhaps the question better asked is ‘can I rent your goat?’. While the concept might be comical to some, others are…

IT’S BEEN a decade since fuzzy long necked camelids have been able to enter Australia, so the arrival of five llamas stirred up excitement at…

QUEENSLAND Farmers’ Federation (QFF) has expanded its energy saving program to include Lockyer Valley and Scenic Rim regional areas. Energy Southern Queensland is a program…

INCREASING demand for ‘ready to eat’ meals and a working population which has less time to cook, have compelled food scientists to find better ways…

TWO Queensland universities are hopeful a new project will help Australian agricultural organisations improve their trade strategies with China. Associate professors, Scott Waldron from the…

PEOPLE watching – most of us do it – sometimes we’ll even imagine a story line to go with what we see. This is true…

A CHANGE in temperature and shorter periods of daylight are some of the signals that help plants know when to grow, so when there are…

GRAZIERS need to be alert for signs of pasture dieback as it continues to spread to new parts of southern, western and northern Queensland. Pasture…

AN AUSTRALIAN university is backing projects with the potential to ‘revolutionise the agricultural industry’. Charles Sturt University plans to channel $50 million into agricultural research…

“A NEW financial year, a new tax” – the impost of the biosecurity protection levy will begin to have an impact on primary producers. Up…

QUEENSLAND researchers say sugarcane’s genome is three times that of a human’s, more complex and has potential exponentially larger than previously thought. Professor Robert Henry…