Key Tasmanian forest industry figures are pushing a radical plan to allow logging of some of the state’s contentious forests in return for most being protected under Indigenous custodianship.
One of the country’s largest organic wineries has fallen into administration amid a deepening crisis facing Australian growers and wine producers.
A US agribusiness private equity giant is leading a consortium that plans to back the expansion of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company.
CSR has opened its books to French company Saint-Gobain and says the latter’s $9 per share bid followed an earlier ‘indicative offer’.
The National Farmers’ Federation lists several major concerns with the proposal, including no carve outs for agriculture in reporting scope 3 emissions.
Meet the vanilla thriller – a farmer in the Daintree rainforest who grows this prized bean by ‘tickling’ the plants with his bare hands.
Australia has approved cultivation of its first genetically modified fruit. It could save bananas as we know them.
Woolworths and Coles have been accused of predatory pricing and price gouging by some farming groups, but defended by others, submissions to a Senate inquiry show.
One of Australia’s largest family-owned winemakers says inland wine regions are in a bad way as economic pressures and grape overproduction threaten their viability.
New attitudes to rehydration such as leaky weirs are reshaping our river systems and can go a long way to making agriculture sustainable.
Clean Seas Seafood has added a significant player to its register, with a billionaire with large aquaculture holdings buying in.
The Albanese government is being pressed to settle a legal claim from the cattle industry 14 years after the Gillard government shut down the live cattle trade to Indonesia overnight.
Farming advocacy groups are preparing to take legal action against a proposed carbon project, fearing it will put the nationally significant underground water supply at risk.
SA dairy producer Beston Global Food Company will appoint a corporate adviser to turn its fortunes around, while also selling assets to whittle away at its large debt.
Are critical minerals more important than agricultural land? In the rich fields of Victoria’s Wimmera area, farmers reckon they face the fight of their life as miners muscle in.
The future of an exotic mushroom operation in Adelaide hangs in the balance as sales dip in the wake of the suspected death cap mushroom poisonings in Victoria.
Tanya Plibersek has triggered a review of salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, in a decision that could see fish pens banned – a move industry says could cost hundreds of jobs.
Brisbane Markets, one of the country’s biggest fresh produce suppliers, aims to become king banana in the nation’s $4.5bn fruit and vegetable sector but not everyone is pleased.
Having transformed Tasmania economically, socially and artistically, the Museum of Old and New Art is now turning to an arguably more challenging task: ending the state’s forest wars.
Financial markets should be waking to the realisation that the RBA has ushered in a new era of hawkishness and potential rate hikes next year.
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