RURAL AFFAIRS Crisis in dairy industry escalates…
A perfect storm has hit the dairy industry – deregulation of dairy and water, falling export prices, drought, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, duopoly…
AGRICULTURE Sweet success for farmers in Queensland…
Queensland’s sugarcane growers won a major victory for competition and fairness when the state Parliament confirmed their legitimate right to continue to have…
RURAL LIFE Some of the reasons why…
The worsening state of the dairy industry is symptomatic of the broader rural crisis that has just been investigated by Queensland’s farm debt…
RURAL SECTOR White paper helps but avoids…
The new Agricultural Competitiveness white paper delivers some important policies to farmers and underscores the high-risk nature of farming in Australia. However, it…
RURAL AFFAIRS Rabobank report highlights need for…
Australia won’t become a food bowl to the world or Asia, but it can become the delicatessen to Asia if key issues facing…
