The Latest Breaking News from Agriculture

Representatives from the agriculture, home affairs and trade departments, as well as the CSIRO, will front a Senate committee examining Australia’s biosecurity.

The federal government will not introduce a specific visa for agricultural workers wanting to come to Australia to help address critical labour shortages.

Members being trained to carry out all farming-related works

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt says the new task force will provide urgent advice over the next four weeks on Australia's response in the event of a potential outbreak.

The measure proposes more than $20 billion for agriculture provisions, including biofuels, conservation and wildfire prevention.

NSW Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders says as many queens as possible will be examined and may be evacuated from the site following the expansion of an eradication zone.

Fire ants can form a raft to move along waterways and there are concerns they may have spread during record floods in southern Queensland, but the Agriculture Minister says the floodwater was moving too fast for this to happen.

A new Victorian taskforce will tackle the threat of foot and mouth disease, as Australian agriculture ministers resolve to finalise a biosecurity strategy.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery (R), joined by 21 Republican attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on July 26, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that aimed to overturn guidance from the Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service.…