The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Decades of industrial agriculture have caused environmental and social damage across the globe. Soils have deteriorated and plant and animal species are disappearing. Landscapes are degraded and small-scale farmers are struggling. It’s little wonder we’re looking for more sustainable and just ways of growing food and fibre.

There's dust in the air, dirt on the boots, and the booming voices of auctioneers break through the cattle-dung-scented air, but farmers don't want to let go of saleyards despite the boom in online sales.

It has been a long time coming, but the free trade deal with the United Kingdom is about to commence — cutting tariffs and increasing quotas on a range of Australian exports, including wine, beef, and seafood.

Plants provide almost every calorie of food we eat. Grains like rice, wheat and corn make civilisation possible. For millennia, farmers have bred grains, fruit and vegetable varieties to get larger harvests and plants better able to tolerate different climates.

The average age of an Australian farmer is 58, but it is becoming more common to spot teenagers working on farms as the sector tries to boost its ageing workforce.

Climate change is happening, and it's happening now, according to dairy farmer David Vonhoff. He has been working on farms since he was a child and sees the changes happening right in front of him. "What is it going to be like when my grandson gets to my age?"

He said the State government was trying to help farmers by procuring soaked paddy by increasing the moisture content from 17% to 20% and issuing orders to custom-mill the soaked paddy to supply 1.28 lakh tonnes of boiled rice from it.

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The global futures price for frozen orange juice concentrate has hit a record high in 2023, mostly because of production issues in the major citrus-growing US state of Florida.