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eNewsletter - Volume 27
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John Deere has introduced a new four year limited warranty for its line of Select Series™ lawn & garden tractors. 
The over ten thousand volunteers of the New South Wales State Emergency Service are celebrating this year's National Volunteer Week.
The NRM Summit will give the entire horticulture industry an opportunity to come together to discuss environmental issues and their potential impact on the industry.
Berryd Opals Australian opals are being showcased around the world thanks to South Australia-based Berryd Opals who believe the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) has opened up further opportunities.
Dial before you dig is a free referrel service for information on underground pipes and cables anywhere in Australia. Queensland producers are asking themselves how they will grow a crop this year with an almost vertical rise in nitrogen fertiliser prices in the past two weeks adding to the doubling of phosphate fertiliser costs and tripling of some farm chemicals in recent months.
Both anecdotal and scientific evidence show that the scourge of Australia’s rangelands – rabbits – are again a threat to the environment and the economy.
A PhD student from the Beef CRC is aiming to find a clean, green way of controlling cattle ticks.
Technological advances are now, almost a daily occurrence and it is no longer uncommon for a new technology or innovation to fundamentally affect our way of life. Australian meat consumers and producers rorted as supermarkets take 53% of consumer dollar plus interest due to late payment.
Widespread rain across South Australia in recent days has lifted the potential for the 2008 winter cereal and oilseed crop, according to leading Australian grain marketing organisation ABB Grain.
Pulse Australia’s April 2008 crop forecast predicts the area sown to narrow leafed lupin in Australia will fall from the five year average by 50 per cent, due to strong cereal and oilseed prices providing a larger short-term profit.
Polaris Industries announced that its Victory Motorcycles brand will be introduced into the Australian market in third quarter of 2008. Peter Alexander, Managing Director of Polaris Industries in Australia & New Zealand. Distinguished American clothing retailer Brooks Brothers is partnering with Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) to tell the world about the virtues of Saxxon® wool.
After an assessment of Federal Budget implications combined with the internal Science Investment Process outcomes, the CSIRO Board has approved measures to set CSIRO’s science directions for the future.
RSPCA Australia is calling for the draft national livestock transport standards, recently released for public comment, to go further in safeguarding the welfare of new born (bobby) calves in Australia.
Want to carry all kinds of cargo - and haul in up to $700.00 factory cash back in the process? Then you need a John Deere Gator™ utility vehicle.Australia’s forest industries continue to deliver environmentally sustainable practices while providing a valuable and renewable way to significantly reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new Government report.
Advanced minerals and energy projects to the value of a record $70.5 billion indicate a positive outlook for the mining industry and an expectation of continued growth for the world’s demand for minerals and energy.
The Australian Government is continuing to offer Exceptional Circumstances (EC) assistance. This assistance is available to eligible drought-affected farmers and people in small businesses who provide services to farm businesses and farm communities in exceptional circumstances declared areas.
Alfagreen Pty Ltd was established in 1999 in Keith South Australia to manage the production and distribution of flairdale a naturally bred and selected lucerne variety. The Western Australian Farmers Federation (Inc.) welcomes the decision by Heavy Vehicle Operations, a division of Main Roads Western Australia, to defer the introduction of changes to load height restrictions and axle spacing requirements on class 2/3 restricted access vehicle period permits.
A minority representative grower group may have cost the sugar industry its ‘preferred supplier’ status in a corrupted international marketplace, after it voted down essential changes to the constitution of sugar marketing body, Queensland Sugar Limited.
Beginning this week, vegetable growers across Australia will be surveyed by ABARE about the profitability of Australia’s vegetable growing regions and the issues faced by growers.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia celebrates 80 years of saving lives. We also celebrate the spirit of Australians whose courage continues to inspire the RFDS to provide excellence in aero-medical and primary health care across Australia. Total Australian wine grape production is forecast to increase by 19 per cent to 1.67 million tonnes in 2007-08, as a result of improved growing conditions in key production areas.
‘New England Australia’ has just become the latest officially recognized Australian wine region.
Cotton bunchy top disease (CBT) has been found widely in cotton crops and on non-cultivated cotton plants this cotton season. This disease is capable of stunting the growth of cotton plants, and if plants are infected when young, of dramatically reducing yield.
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Victorian organic producers will have an opportunity to expand their produce into Singapore thanks to the Brumby Government.
A senior Department of Fisheries compliance manager is reminding the community that no fishing is allowed in Western Australia’s drinking water dams.
Primary Industries and Resources SA is taking action to remove a patch of the invasive seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia from an area within the North Haven marina near the public boat ramp.