Tag: Australian farmers

Deal for Tariff-Free Australian Meat Exports to the UK on the Horizon

May 19, 2021
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Australian farmers may soon be able to export meat tariff-free into the United Kingdom as part of a free-trade agreement. Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan and British Trade Secretary Liz Truss are keen for the deal to go ahead, with both sides saying their farmers would benefit. It would mark one of the UK’s first…

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Australia and Saudi Arabia Resume Livestock Trade After 10 Year Hiatus

April 14, 2021
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A ten-year hiatus on livestock trade between Australia and Saudi Arabia has been broken with the Middle East kingdom now welcoming Australian exports again. Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said on April 7 that Australia has been working with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the arrangements. “My department has been working closely with their counterparts…

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Australian Winter Crop Expected to Enter Record Books

February 15, 2021
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Australia’s winter crop production has increased by 89 percent to 55.2 million tonnes and is expected to be the second biggest harvest on record. Wheat production is estimated to have increased by 120 percent to 33.3million tonnes, while barely is up 45 percent to 13.1 million tonnes and canola production rose by 74 per cent to 4.1 million tonnes. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural…

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All-Pervasive’ Mice Blighting Rural Australia

February 6, 2021
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Farmers and communities across large swathes of inland eastern Australia are being hit by their worst mouse plague in almost a decade, threatening to undermine post-drought recovery efforts. Mouse populations have spiked over the past 12 months as crop-growing conditions have improved across rural Australia and provided the rodents with favourable conditions for eating and…

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A Year of Fire, Floods and Plague for Many

December 25, 2020
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Dairy farmer Rob Miller has endured four fires and three floods in a year. The first blaze came on New Year’s Eve. “We were prepared, but I don’t think anyone could have prepared for last summer,” he told AAP from his Milton farm on the NSW South Coast 12 months on. He and his partner’s…

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