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Does Anthony Albanese (right) really want to follow Donald Trump’s lead on defence spending?

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Australia’s strict quarantine authorities famously booted out the movie star dogs. A few years later they are overturning a ban on US beef. We’re truly living in Trumpworld now.

  • Tony Wright

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Alison Bransdon and her children, Madeleine, 11, and Harvey, 9, with the chickens they raise in their backyard in Sydney’s south.

Chooks in the city: How an egg shortage drove the return of the backyard hen

As egg prices remain stubbornly high, the humble backyard chook is enjoying renewed popularity in urban areas. Here’s how to keep the eggs coming.

  • Shona Hendley
Beef cattle on a farm near Winslow, Victoria.

‘Dairy shortages, no ifs or buts’: Milk and butter prices to rise as farmers tread water

The high cost of recovery from repeated floods and droughts will contribute to inflation on supermarket shelves.

  • Jessica Yun

When was the last time egg prices were $4.20?

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton were asked about the price of eggs – and one politician’s answer was much further off the mark than the other.

  • Jessica Yun
Hessians on the Field contestant Alice Williams, 15.

They are the Potato Festival’s best dressed. Think Fashions on the Field – but itchier

It’s harvest time in Thorpdale, but the town chips in to celebrate the humble spud with custom-made clothes, a potato-picking race and a speed-eating mash competition.

  • Carolyn Webb
Bari Sulejman

‘Maggots in the fruit’: Orchards under attack as pest prevention funds shrink

Councils in the food bowl are calling for urgent reinstatement of government funding to protect some of Victoria’s most fertile orchards from fruit fly.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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The egg shortage is partly the result of bird flu outbreaks.

‘Crazy jump in price’: Shoppers, farmers brace for years-long egg shortage

Bird flu outbreaks have choked the nation’s supply of eggs – and frustrated egg farmers say the proposed ban on caged eggs is exacerbating the problem.

  • Jessica Yun
Woolworths’ dispute with the United Workers Union over warehouse pay and conditions is affecting supply.

Empty shelves at Woolworths as industrial action cripples supplies

The company confirmed that some stores in Victoria, NSW and the ACT were experiencing limited stock flow.

  • Madeleine Heffernan and Gemma Grant
Residential development is encroaching on Victoria’s food bowl.

‘An existential issue’: Property speculation threatening Victoria’s food bowl

Farmers and government MPs want stronger protection for prime land on the outskirts of Melbourne, Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat, but are voluntary legal contracts enough?

  • Benjamin Preiss
Perth NRM sustainable agriculture manager David Broadhurst, G&A Padula and son orchardist Mick Padula, Stonefruit WA chair Anthony Caccetta and Karragullen orchardist Danny Di Marco promoting WA Stonefruit in Yagan Square, November 27, 2024

The proof is in the plum pudding: bid to buy up WA produce

Stonefruit WA chair Anthony Caccetta has encouraged shoppers to buy fruit from “trees down the road, not across the Nullabor” as 250 lines of produce fail border controls.

  • Claire Ottaviano

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