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To breed Hilda scientists took an egg from an immature cow and transferred it to a surrogate animal for birth

Meet Hilda, the calf bred to fight climate change

The calf is the first of Britain’s scientific herd conceived using IVF to accelerate the breeding process to cut methane emissions.

  • Rob Harris

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Is farmed salmon a guilty pleasure this Christmas?

Tasmanian salmon will be on the tables at thousands of Christmas lunches. Questions remain about the environmental cost.

  • Mike Foley
A conspiracy-fuelled uproar over cattle feed additive Bovaer has reached Australia.

Panic over additive in cattle feed sparks milk and meat furore

Consumers are dumping milk down toilets in protest at a supplement fed to cattle that’s approved for use in Australia.

  • Angus Dalton
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
PlasmaLeap: Lightning in a bottle using renewable electricity, air and water to make green ammonia

From bottled lightning to ‘hempcrete’: The Australian innovations that could save the world

From harnessing the power of lightning to make fertiliser to using yeast to produce forest-friendly palm oil, these start-ups are helping solve big environmental problems.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson joins farmers at a rally in London against the government’s changes to inheritance tax.

Gearhead, farmer, tax protester: Jeremy Clarkson takes to London streets

Farming’s least likely champion opposes a new tax the Labour government says will help restore public services.

  • Rob Harris
Narromine farmer Bruce Maynard is alarmed by government tests that show potentially toxic agricultural chemicals in the air.

Banned pesticide among toxic cocktail discovered in state’s west

A government monitoring program has detected traces of many potentially toxic agricultural chemicals on public land.

  • Ben Cubby
The consumer watchdog is reassuring free range egg and chicken meat producers that they can retain their marketing during lockdown orders.

‘Free-range’ label to stay when chickens locked down to contain bird flu

A new strain of bird flu has infected the rest of the world and could enter Australia at any moment. When it does, poultry producers will be on red alert.

  • Mike Foley
Before anything even springs out of the ground or fattens up in a paddock, farmers are dealt a tricky hand.

Finding it hard to stomach higher prices? Something seedy is going on

It’s not just supermarkets that are likely to be pushing prices higher. Some of us are getting squeezed from more angles than one.

  • Millie Muroi

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