All posts tagged "agriculture"

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  Southern Cross University students win highly competitive soil judging competition

  A team of Southern Cross University students received a perpetual trophy for their win at the annual Soil Science Australia, National Soil...

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  News and Views

  Queensland farmers to open their gates to teachers in bid to bridge urban-rural divide

  Teachers from across southern Queensland and northern NSW are encouraged to step out of the classroom and into the paddock thanks to...

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  Funding to boost agricultural R&D smarts

  A new Australian Government grant will support a national hub of agricultural know-how.

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  Health and Medicine

  B is for brain food that = A+

  It’s back to school time and with kids eating around one-third of their daily food intake at school, Hort Innovation is encouraging...

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  Celebrating women in agriculture: the force of female farming

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently revealed 30 per cent of all farm managers in Australia’s $60 billion agriculture industry are women,...

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  Australia Day honour for CSU agricultural education advocate

  A Charles Sturt University (CSU) academic who has inspired generations of agriculture students, contributed to the development of conservation farming, and shaped...

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  Science and Technology

  Feed your mind, Feed the world

  Food security — making sure that everyone has enough to eat — probably isn’t the first thing on our minds as we...

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  News and Views

  Hand back the keys, AgForce tells Government

  AgForce Queensland Farmers has demanded the Queensland Government hand the agricultural colleges at Longreach and Emerald back to industry if their bureaucracy...

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  Industry ignored in closure of Ag colleges

  Queensland broadacre agriculture’s peak body, AgForce Queensland Farmers, is furious it has been ignored by the QLD Government around the closure of...

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  Making farms safer

  Only 3 percent of Queenslanders work on farms, but that’s where 30 percent of workplace deaths occur – something a conference hosted...