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A coffee a day could keep the doctor away.

Why the world’s top coffee producer is switching up its beans

In the coming years, your coffee might start to taste a bit different.

  • Renata Carlos Daou

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US President Donald Trump has already caused a lot of damage to the reputation of the world’s most important central bank.

Trump’s $15 billion Band-Aid for the problem he created

These American farmers are having a record year, but their hands are tied.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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
The shot hole borer has already caused thousands of trees to be felled.

Mulch or ‘wood product’?: Confusion over how the shot-hole borer did the Rotto swim

Deputy Nationals Leader Peter Rundle took particular issue with conflicting responses about how the borer made its way to Rottnest Island.

  • Hamish Hastie
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
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Ninth generation farmer Caleb Ragland on his property in Magnolia, Kentucky.

‘We don’t want to be the sacrificial lamb’: The farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs

Caleb Ragland voted Republican three times and doesn’t regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.

  • Michael Koziol
Angry constituents in Fort Madison, Iowa peppered the 91-year-old senator with questions about Donald Trump’s presidency.

In small-town America, a senator under siege has Australia on his mind

From the town halls of rural Iowa to the farms of Kentucky, Australia’s reluctance to accept imports of US beef is a hot topic.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump unveils the reciprocal tariffs.

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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

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