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'Where's the pastizzis?' Secrets from a lifetime of Maltese cheese-crafting
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (868+ words) Pastizzi, traditional pastries from Malta, are one of Philippa's specialties. (ABC News: Yasmine Wright Gittins) Eighty-year-old cheesemaker Philippa Abela has been practising a craft passed down by her mother, who emigrated with her from Malta when Philippa was a child....
Paddock-to-plate revival as farmers grapple with surging food freight costs
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (728+ words) More consumers are looking local when it comes to buying fresh produce. (ABC Rural: Sophie Johnson) Selling and buying closer to where food is produced reduces the transport costs and food miles. Not all growers can sell direct to local…...
Australian cows help Indonesia's slow recovery from FMD outbreak
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1241+ words) Ma'Mur Komara has 12 milking cows on his farm in Tajurhalang in West Java. (ABC Rural: Emma Field) Robotics and virtual fencing are taking the Australian dairy industry into the next age, but farmers in Indonesia are still milking cows by…...
Supermarket milk price rises tipped to help hundreds of dairy farmers
4+ week, 17+ hour 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
1+ mon, 3+ 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, 2+ week 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, 3+ 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
2+ mon, 6+ day 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, 3+ 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, 2+ week 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…...