Farming & Food

Threatened black cockatoos are ‘annihilating’ WA apple crops and producers want help

ABC Online, Other, 25/11/2020, Jessica Hayes, Ellie Honeybone and Joanna Prendergast A West Australian apple grower says a threatened WA […]

Proform Foods opens $11m plant protein facility

Food & Drink Business, Other, 27/11/2020, Kim Berry The 1600 square metre facility can produce up to 5000 tonnes of […]

Overcoming constraints on highly calcareous soils

groundcover.grdc.com.au, Other, 28/11/2020 Highly calcareous soils are very difficult to farm and the keys to improving their productivity are far […]

Harvest hygiene urged to prevent mouse outbreaks in 2021

Stock Journal Australia, Other, 29/11/2020 Planning ahead could help control the issues from mice at next year's sowing, growers are […]

Cotton growing interest on the rise in north Queensland as industry looks to droughtproof

ABC Online, Other, 23/11/2020, Eric Barker A CSIRO researcher says drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has been the catalyst for […]

Supercomputer to speed up genomic sequencing

The Land Australia, Other, 20/11/2020 Agricultural researchers will be among the beneficiaries of an upgrade at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre […]

Hawaiian seaweed makes cows 90% less gassy – and that’s good for climate change

Forbes.com, Other, 22/11/2020, Jeff Kart It sounds like people may be able to have their meat and eat it too, […]

Invasive grass mapped from space by Australian researchers

News Cgtn, Other, 22/11/2020 Researchers from Australia's national science agency have used satellites to map the spread of an invasive […]

Giant rat’s tail slashes land value, pasture productivity, but there’s hope battling the superspreader

ABC Online, Other, 22/11/2020, Jennifer Nichols It cripples land values and slashes productivity by up to 80 per cent, but […]