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Supermarket milk price rises tipped to help hundreds of dairy farmers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1042+ words) Dairy farmers look set to receive more for their milk. (ABC News: Jennifer Nichols) Dairy farmers are battling cost increases related to the war in the Middle East, and their buyers are starting to pay them more per litre. Woolworths…...
Milk prices may need to increase to cover soaring fuel and fertiliser costs
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1113+ words) Dairy farmers are considering slowing production and selling off cattle. (ABC News: Jeremy Story Carter) Australian dairy production could be impacted by high fuel and fertiliser costs. Some farmers are already slowing production in an effort to minimise losses. Dairy…...
Pushing On: Extra wheels no barrier to agriculture career
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (116+ words) VIDEO: Pushing On: Extra wheels no barrier to agriculture career'abc. net. au VIDEO: Pushing On: Extra wheels no barrier to agriculture career Teenager Alex Wilson attends to animals on the family farm. Paralysed in a farming accident, teenager Alex Wilson…...
'We want your ticks': Researchers investigate chemical resistance
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (814+ words) Guilherme Klafke and Hannah Siddle are calling for graziers to send them live cattle ticks from their properties. (Supplied: Megan Pope, UQ) Queensland researchers are trying to understand growing resistance to the chemicals used to kill cattle ticks. They are…...
Monitoring Milk: Helping to reduce dairy product wastage
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (74+ words) VIDEO: Monitoring Milk: Helping to reduce dairy product wastage'Australian Broadcasting Corporation VIDEO: Monitoring Milk: Helping to reduce dairy product wastage More than half a million tonnes of dairy products are wasted in Australia each year, across all stages of the…...
At 90, Gippsland cheesemaker John Interlandi refuses to retire
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (895+ words) John Interlandi distributing cheese wheels from his family's Strzelecki farm in 1958. " (Supplied: John Interlandi) At age 90, most people have long retired. But great-grandfather John Interlandi is still hard at work making cheese." Mr Interlandi is continuing the long-held family tradition…...
Rethinking bovine intelligence - there's more at steak than you think
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (172+ words) Australian Broadcasting Corporation Program: Rethinking bovine intelligence - there's more at steak than you think Program: The Radio National Hour For senior Australian of the Year Professor Henry Brodaty the quest to understand, treat and maybe, one day find a cure…...
Premium beef producers expect to be the main casualty of China's new 55 per cent tariff
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1075+ words) High-quality Australian beef may soon be in short supply in Chinese shops. (ABC Landline: Pip Courtney) Australian wagyu and Angus beef producers are predicting a challenging year after China imposed a 55 per cent tariff on exports exceeding an annual quota....
Beef industry reacts to new China tariffs
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (165+ words) Australian beef producers say they are "extremely disappointed" after China announced a 55 per cent tariff on beef imports that exceed new quota limits. Beijing says the move is designed to protect its domestic cattle industry, which is emerging from oversupply,…...
Farmers fear shoppers misled by cheap 'green and gold' US butter
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (653+ words) Hillview butter sold in Woolworths stores is made in the US. (ABC Rural: Justine Longmore) Woolworths has started stocking a new, cheaper butter from the United States. Australian farmers say they are concerned the Hillview brand, packaged in green and…...