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ABC Rural News provides authoritative coverage of the business and politics of Australian farming, livestock, forestry, agriculture and primary production

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NSW farmers Tess and Andrew Herbert are the 2023 Australian Farmers of the Year. @KondininGroup @gundamaincattle @meatlivestock #ausfarmerawards
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Victorian fruit grower Mitchell McNab has been named 2023 Young Farmer of the Year. @McNabMitchell @KondininGroup @FruitGrowersVic @Hort_Au
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Off-road racing was on Ben's bucket list. So he built a 60km track to practice on abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/j…
Off-road racing was on Ben's bucket list. So he built a 60km track to practice on

Off-road racing was on Ben's bucket list. So he built a 60km track to practice on

Known for taking on big challenges, South Australian farmer Ben McNamara turned a section of his property into a 60-kilometre dirt circuit in just under a year.

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Abalone sector throws down as WA government pushes ahead with marine park zoning plan abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
Abalone sector vows to fight as WA government pushes ahead with marine park zoning plan

Abalone sector vows to fight as WA government pushes ahead with marine park zoning plan

There are fears Western Australia's south coast abalone sector could be devastated by restrictions flagged as part of the creation of a controversial marine park.

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Australia's largest private landholder expands portfolio abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
Australia's largest private landholder expands portfolio

Australia's largest private landholder expands portfolio

Viv Oldfield adds well-situated Middle Creek Station, south of Katherine in the Northern Territory, to his vast property portfolio.

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Queensland grazier Melinee Leather is breaking stereotypes by planting a 10ha tree corridor on farmland abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
Queensland grazier Melinee Leather is breaking stereotypes by planting a 10ha tree corridor on...

Queensland grazier Melinee Leather is breaking stereotypes by planting a 10ha tree corridor on...

An ambitious regeneration project will see four central Queensland landholders plant 30 hectares of forest on agricultural land to increase animal habitat and biodiversity.

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'High-grade' gold find tipped to bring wealth, jobs to Queensland region abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
'High-grade' gold find tipped to bring wealth, jobs to Queensland region

'High-grade' gold find tipped to bring wealth, jobs to Queensland region

The discovery of gold and copper in Queensland's Wide Bay-Burnett region has mining industry leaders excited about what it could mean for the state.

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How farmers are trying to save a $500,000 black market bird from extinction abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
How farmers are trying to save a $500,000 black market bird from extinction

How farmers are trying to save a $500,000 black market bird from extinction

Fewer than 8,000 glossy black-cockatoos remain in the wild across Australia. In response, a group of farmers are planting trees in their thousands to bring back the species' habitat.

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Frustrated farmers turn up in droves to lobby for live export abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
Frustrated farmers turn up in droves to lobby for live export

Frustrated farmers turn up in droves to lobby for live export

Hundreds of farmers have attended meetings across regional Western Australia to voice concerns about a ban on live export. 

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Cooler season puts Gippsland winemakers 'under pressure' despite overall warming trend abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/g…
Cooler season puts Gippsland winemakers 'under pressure' despite overall warming trend

Cooler season puts Gippsland winemakers 'under pressure' despite overall warming trend

A Victorian winery owner says cooler weather has delayed harvest and exposed grapes to more risks but, until this season, the conditions had been growing noticeably hotter.

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Casey Bowie's company was starting to grow. Then a major freight company collapse left her business in a bind abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-0…
Casey Bowie's company was starting to grow. Then a major freight company collapse left her business...

Casey Bowie's company was starting to grow. Then a major freight company collapse left her business...

When major transport and logistics company Scott's Refrigerated collapsed last month, it exacerbated the struggle some small regional businesses have long faced to get their products to larger...

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Beetaloo Basin inquiry calls for further scrutiny of Middle Arm's 'petrochemicals plant' abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/s…
Beetaloo Basin inquiry calls for further scrutiny of Middle Arm's 'petrochemicals plant'

Beetaloo Basin inquiry calls for further scrutiny of Middle Arm's 'petrochemicals plant'

A long-awaited Senate inquiry's final report into fracking in the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin has made 14 recommendations.

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Sugar prices skyrocket as growers eye 'once-in-a-generation' payday abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/s…
Sugar prices skyrocket as growers eye 'once-in-a-generation' payday

Sugar prices skyrocket as growers eye 'once-in-a-generation' payday

As the 2023 harvest approaches, sugarcane growers are locking in some of their best prices in decades.

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New Zealand feral cat killing competition for children axed after backlash abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/n…
New Zealand feral cat killing competition for children axed after backlash

New Zealand feral cat killing competition for children axed after backlash

A hunting competition for children aged under 14 to shoot feral cats was due to be held as a fundraiser for a school in the country's South Island.

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Regional Drive Great Builds abc.net.au/radio/programs/sa…

Regional Drive Great Builds: The McDonald's birthday plane - ABC listen

Karoonda farmer Jeffery Morgan has been chipping away at a plane restoration for about 22 years. The plane was formerly the McDonald's birthday plane, stationed outside the West Lakes store.

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Lawyers warn of inexperienced 'cowboys' locking farmers into complex renewable energy contracts abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/r…
Lawyers warn of inexperienced 'cowboys' locking farmers into complex renewable energy contracts

Lawyers warn of inexperienced 'cowboys' locking farmers into complex renewable energy contracts

Farmers are urged to seek legal advice before getting locked into renewable energy projects that look good in the short term.

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'Voluntary' change not possible, report recommends forced council mergers abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/t…
'There will be fewer councils at the end of this': Minister accepts report urging forced Tasmanian...

'There will be fewer councils at the end of this': Minister accepts report urging forced Tasmanian...

A report on the future of Tasmania's 29 councils says amalgamation is necessary for local government to survive but it needs to be mandated. 

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Historic family winery signs up all of its grape growers to sustainability program abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/s…
Historic family winery signs up all of its grape growers to sustainability program

Historic family winery signs up all of its grape growers to sustainability program

Grape growers contracted by Australia's oldest family owned winery have found signing up to a sustainability program has had financial, environmental and emotional benefits.

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More time sought for transition to WA's new Aboriginal heritage laws abc.net.au/news/2023-04-19/m…
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