Rural Review
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New meat alternatives ‘no threat to animal agriculture’
THERE is meat and then there is ‘meat’, which leads to the question ‘are plant based alternative proteins in competition with meat and dairy?’. …
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Biosecurity levy furore, pay pain for producers
CATTLE Australia and other organisations representing producers of agricultural, forestry and fishery products have called out a Federal Government’s plan for a mandatory Biosecurity Protection…
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Catching canines, keeping cattle safe
THE economic impact of wild dogs is estimated to be around $110 million a year in lost agricultural productivity and wild dog management officers say…
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Grow-ning in pain, producers ‘bottom of food chain’
FROM growers to processors through to retailers and on to the consumer, it is unquestioned that a price war in Australia is being waged along…
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Understanding chicken cluck breakthrough
WHY DID the chicken cross the road? Perhaps the answer to that question and others can come from poultry themselves now Queensland researchers have found…
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Premier demands answers for supermarket price gap
QUEENSLAND Premier Steven Miles has drawn a line in the sand for the major supermarkets demanding to know why farmers are getting less for their…
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Lehmann family celebrates 25 years in the tractor business
TEVIOTVILLE brothers in business Ross and Bruce Lehmann built a successful company on the back of good customer service. SEQ Tractors have supplied machinery…
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Lehmann family celebrates 25 years in the tractor business
IT BEGAN with a dairy farm and a farm contracting business, then grew into an enterprise that has been going strong for 25 years. …
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Crops, vegetation and landscapes devoured by hungry hares
EUROPEAN hares are not declared pest animals in Queensland despite a significant agricultural impact. Glen Alchin of Pest Animal Management Queensland said he worked…
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Farming emus in the quest for ‘liquid gold’
WHILE beef, lamb and chicken are popular barbecue buddies, how about a snag made from emu or steak from this native bird? Stephen and Sarah…
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Mushroom project hopes to reduce import reliance
A TEAM of researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have been awarded $2.1 million to expand the production of exotic and native mushrooms in…
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Forum tackles ag workforce challenges
A NEW forum has been established to tackle workforce challenges within the agricultural industry. The Agricultural Workforce Forum (AWF) met for the first time in…












