Production Up, Exports Down
Australia’s farm, fisheries and forestry sectors are set to rebound in 2024-25, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.
Australia’s farm, fisheries and forestry sectors are set to rebound in 2024-25, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.
AgForce has urged a ramping up of fire ant eradication methods, including the use of different baits to combat the invasive pest.
Agricultural levy payers and industry bodies have been invited to provide feedback on draft regulations and rules which aim to simplify levy legislation.
A single varroa mite has been found in a sentinel beehive at the Port of Brisbane after a routine inspection by Biosecurity Queensland.
AgForce is urging Federal and State MPs to step in to stop Australia’s largest freshwater resource, the Great Artesian Basin, from being “pumped with industrial waste” by mining giant Glencore.
The CSIRO is calling on rural residents to join the longest-running citizen science survey of rabbit diseases in the world to help keep the pests in check.
The death has been reported of well-known rural journalist – and former Kumbia resident – Miles Noller, 77.
South Burnett farmers interested in growing sesame have been invited to attend a field walk at the Kingaroy Research Facility.
FRRR has invited community organisations to apply for grants that build community preparedness for future drought.
Applications are now open for the State Government’s Reef Place-Based Integrated Projects (2023–2026) grants scheme, and projects from within the South Burnett are eligible.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud has slammed new industrial legislation which he says will put biosecurity and farmers’ safety at risk.
Fall armyworm are currently being detected at unprecedented levels – and causing significant damage – in sorghum crops across Queensland.
The South Burnett Sub-Chamber, responsible for overseeing agricultural shows in the region, is facing a crisis following its AGM in Kingaroy on Wednesday night.
Rural businesses in the primary production sector have been invited to submit an expression of interest for project funding under the State Government’s $3.3 million Rural Economic Development Grants scheme.
1000 cattle were sold at the Murgon combined agents sale on January 23 with all descriptions selling to dearer rates.
Two South Burnett residents are scheduled to speak at a rally targeting renewable energy projects to be held in Canberra on Tuesday.
January 10, 2024 by Pratt Agencies and Aussie Land & Livestock Agents yarded 580 in Murgon for the first sale of 2024 on Tuersday, January 9. Values for export cattle as well as suitable feeders improved noticeably, and lighter cattle aslo showed improvement depending on their quality. Cattle for the sale were drawn from Eidsvold, Mundubbera, […]
South Burnett Regional Council issued a biosecurity alert on Wednesday that parthenium has again been detected in the region.
Fire ants are spreading at a rate of about five kilometres per year within south-east Queensland.
Numbers and prices were both on an upswing at the Murgon Saleyards on Tuesday.