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Littleproud batting for market access in Europe

Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud has begun a brief visit to Europe as he fights for more market access for Australian farmers.

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  • APRIL CEO & Chief Scientist, Prof John Pluske (right) described the ARC grant as significant, with improving pig welfare a hot button issue in the Australasian pork industry. He was pictured in Melbourne at the recent APRIL stakeholders’ day with APRIL Chairman Dennis Mutton (centre) and APRIL Manager Commercialisation and Research Impact, Dr Charles Rikard-Bell. Image courtesy of APRIL
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  • David Clancy, NSW General Manager - Cleanaway Waste Management (L), and Charles Alder, Founder, Rural Aid (R) attend an announcement of donation of $70,038 from the Return and Earn scheme to the Buy a Bale charity in Werombi, NSW, on Monday, December 17, 2018. (AAP Image/Brendon Thorne)
  • Collector's name: Darryl Hardie, Place collected: Mt Hawthorn, Found on: tomato plant , Date collected: 07-FEB-2017
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  • Jeff Werth (DAF) collecting data at the patch eradication trial at Hermitage Research Facility, Warwick. The dense patches of awnless barnyard grass seen in this image are the glyphosate-only treatments.
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Get FarmingMonday, January 14th, 2019 at 4:05pm
Post-harvest is the perfect time to do three simple on-farm hygiene jobs to protect your stored grain from pests.

Kym McIntyre from the Grain Farm Biosecurity Program advises that over summer is a good time to clean your unused grain storage and handling equipment and clear piles of grain residues on your farm.

Find out more here: http://getfarming.com.au/2019/01/14/post-harvest-jobs-to-protect-stored-grain-from-pests/
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Post-harvest jobs to protect stored grain from pests - GetFarming
Post-harvest is the perfect time to do three simple on-farm hygiene jobs to protect your stored grain from pests. Kym McIntyre from the Grain Farm Biosecurity Program advises that over summer is a good time to clean your unused grain storage and handling equipment and clear piles of grain residues o...
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Get FarmingTuesday, January 8th, 2019 at 4:22pm
Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, SunPork Solutions and Rivalea Australia have secured an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to support a $900,000 research project to improve pig welfare by modulating stress resilience. http://getfarming.com.au/2019/01/08/research-grant-to-help-improve-stress-resilience-in-pigs/
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Australasian Pork Research Institute Limited, The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, SunPork Solutions and Rivalea Australia have secured an Australian Research Council Linkage grant to support a $900,000 research project to improve pig welfare by modulating stress resilience. AR...
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Get FarmingMonday, January 7th, 2019 at 4:54pm
AusScan calibrations for pig faecal digestible energy and ileal DE for cereal grains have been upgraded on completion of Pork CRC Project 4B-117, ‘Strengthening the AusScan pig DE, DE intake index NIR calibrations’. http://getfarming.com.au/2018/12/21/ausscan-energising-feed-grain-evaluation/
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AusScan energising feed grain evaluation - GetFarming
AusScan calibrations for pig faecal digestible energy and ileal DE for cereal grains have been upgraded on completion of Pork CRC Project 4B-117, ‘Strengthening the AusScan pig DE, DE intake index NIR calibrations’. The project determined pig ileal and faecal DE and faecal DE intake index of 67 ...
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Get FarmingWednesday, December 19th, 2018 at 9:45am
In this article from Vegetables Australia magazine, AUSVEG Biosecurity Adviser Dr Kevin Clayton-Greene discusses how a robust on-farm biosecurity system can protect Australian vegetable growing operations from the threat of pests and diseases, particularly those that seem inevitable to spread or arr...
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On-farm biosecurity: preventing the (seemingly) inevitable - GetINDUSTRY
In this article from Vegetables Australia magazine, AUSVEG Biosecurity Adviser Dr Kevin Clayton-Greene discusses how a robust on-farm biosecurity system can protect Australian vegetable growing operations from the threat of pests and diseases, particularly those that seem inevitable to spread or arr...
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Get FarmingWednesday, December 19th, 2018 at 9:38am
Darryl Smith is a third-generation potato grower (and sheep producer), who grows about 64 hectares of potatoes a year, at Busselton, 200km south of Perth in Western Australia. His ‘self confessed’ claim to fame is that he was the first potato grower in Australia to have tomato potato psyllid (TPP) detected on his property.
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WA potato growers’ incursion experience - GetFarming
Darryl Smith is a third-generation potato grower (and sheep producer), who grows about 64 hectares of potatoes a year, at Busselton, 200km south of Perth in Western Australia. His ‘self confessed’ claim to fame is that he was the first potato grower in Australia to have tomato potato psyllid (TP...
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