All posts tagged "agriculture"

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  Science and Technology

  The state of plant biosecurity in Australia

  The National Plant Biosecurity Status Report for 2019 was released by Plant Health Australia (PHA), bringing together contributions from over 100 government,...

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  News and Views

  First crop of agriculture students from Japan join UWA

  The University of Western Australia has welcomed a group of agriculture students from Nagoya University in Japan as part of a joint...

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  News and Views

  ANU in Biodiversity Stewardship Program for farmers

  The Australian Government is delivering on its $34 million 2019 election commitment to establish an Agriculture Stewardship Package for farmers. The Department...

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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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  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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  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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  Who's Who

  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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  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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  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...