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A new research partnership aims at making medicine you can eat.

French fries that work like Ozempic: The push to make medicine you can eat

Peanuts instead of Panadol and a salad that can kill your appetite could be the results of a new Sydney research project.

  • Angus Dalton

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The Buccaneer Archipelago is the site of a proposed barramundi fish farm expansion from global business Tassal.

Tarnished Tassal brand targets WA barramundi

Canadian giant Tassal is at the centre of a raging debate over salmon farming in Tasmania. Now it plans to grow a major operation in a Kimberley marine park.

  • Emma Young
Biodynamic viticulturist Kesh Mudaly

Fermented poo and lunar cycles: How ‘witchcraft’ is used to perfect wine

Biodynamic principles have raised the eyebrows of modern science. But the limited research suggests it may lead to a better drop.

  • Angus Dalton
ClearVue Technologies and its subsidiary Opticrop’s root-zone warming and cooling technologies can maintain crop root temperatures, moisture and nutrient supply within an optimum range to sustain maximum plant health and productivity.

ClearVue secures $80,000 first sale of new greenhouse technology

ClearVue Technologies has secured its first commercial sale to install its greenhouse ground-source heat-exchange technology. The deal is worth $80,000.

  • Doug Bright

In 100 years, one wheat-farming family had never tasted their own flour – until now

Who’s the grower behind that delicious sourdough baguette? Some wheat farmers are choosing to stay small and nurture local niche markets.

  • By Dani Valent
Maris Cummins and some of her produce, including (top shelf, right) bottles of her “adult” cordial called “No Going Back!”

‘You don’t know what you’re missing out on’: Meet Australia’s new Mrs Thrifty

There’s a new generation of people finding fresh reasons to preserve their homegrown food.

  • Andrew Hornery
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The muddy green waters of a Riverina fish farm counterintuitively produce the purest tasting fish.

Salmon critics say fish farms should be on land. How it works for Murray cod

A sustainable Murray cod farm using freshwater ponds in the Riverina provides a contrast to open-pen salmon farming in the ocean off Tasmania.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

‘He feels as trapped as the chickens’: How an activist teamed up with the ‘enemy’

What happened when the activist and the chicken factory-farmer joined forces? They exposed the lies behind the ‘humane’ treatment of shed-reared chooks.

  • Rutger Bregman
Salmon farming in Tasmania.

Fact check: Does the Tasmanian salmon industry pay tax?

In the charged debate over fish farming, independent senator Jacqui Lambie has Tassal Group, Huon Aquaculture and Petuna firmly in her sights.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Australian salmon should be avoided according to the experts.

Want to avoid farmed Atlantic salmon? Get hooked on these alternatives instead

Experts advise avoiding the Tasmanian-farmed fish variety following recent catastrophic events. Here are some alternative – and more sustainable – catches to try instead.

  • Ardyn Bernoth

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