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  • Record forecast for Australia’s world-class agriculture

    Record forecast for Australia’s world-class agriculture

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    The price of livestock is set to tick Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry production value to a record of more than $100 billion. Beef, lamb and milk products have boosted overall agriculture sector production with this financial year’s forecast a good omen for producers around the nation, the federal government’s commodities forecaster says. However, crop…

  • SA’s agriculture by the numbers should make you want to act

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    In 2022-23, the state’s primary industries and agribusiness revenue reached a record $18.5 billion – almost one-seventh of gross state product. There are now around 4,500 grain farms spanning the state from the western Eyre Peninsula to the Mid North, the South East to Kangaroo Island. Together they produce about 20 per cent of Australia’s…

  • Finalists announced for 2023 Ag Town of the Year

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    The hotly contested Agricultural Town of the Year award will be fought out by three of our state’s regional towns: Bordertown, Eudunda and Wudinna. Introduced in 2019, the Ag Town of the Year award recognises South Australian towns that are excelling in agricultural practices and, as a consequence, supporting vibrant and resilient communities. Primary Industries…

  • 2023 Ag Town finalists announced

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    The towns making the finals highlight the breadth of South Australia’s agricultural industries – from cereal and seed crops, to wine grapes and citrus, to sheep and cattle. Primary Industries and Regional Development Minister Clare Scriven welcomed today’s announcement of the finalists. “Our regions contribute $29 billion to the state’s economy each year and their…

  • Vote for the state’s 2023 Agricultural Town of the Year

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    Now in its fifth year, Ag Town highlights the significant contribution the agricultural sector and regional communities make to South Australia’s economy, and our world-class and innovative agricultural practices. With nominations now closed, it is up to the public to vote for their favourite from the 49 towns that made this year’s list. Voting is…

  • Northern exposure: Biosecurity staff exodus raises cattle concerns

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    The Australian Campdrafting Association held its national finals in Cloncurry last week amid growing concerns the State Government has no plans to replace biosecurity staff who have left, and reopen the office that is currently closed to the public. The staffing crisis meant there was no local biosecurity team to coordinate cross border permits, conduct…

  • Knives out: AgForce warns of UK group’s threat to skewer state’s beef industry

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    Major supermarket retailers Coles and Woolworths have already been publicly outed for their affiliations with the group calling itself the Business Benchmark on Animal Welfare, which proposes to rank companies based on their commitment to “reducing reliance on animal products”. Behind the strategy is a wider mission to halve the multi-billion dollar livestock industry by 2040,…

  • Direct meat buying system aims to be a cut above the rest

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    The ‘Half A Cow’ platform sees consumers directly connected to local farmers to purchase meat at a wholesale price, with the aim of giving farmers a fairer price than what they receive from supermarket chains. Platform founder and CEO James Gilbert said customers could buy meat locally or regionally from smaller farms, with better animal…

  • Foot and mouth disease crackdown as Royal Show returns

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    The Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society (RA&HS) and the Department for Primary Industries are urging Showgoers to wear clean footwear and clothes to the event and not to touch or feed the animals in the pavilions unless expressly allowed. People who have been overseas in the past seven days are advised not to enter livestock…

  • Feared livestock disease viral fragments detected at Adelaide Airport

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    A spokesperson for Agriculture Minister Murray Watt confirmed to InDaily on Thursday that viral fragments of the livestock disease were detected in Adelaide, but emphasised that it was not live virus and cannot be transmitted. The spokesperson advised that a passenger at Adelaide Airport was intercepted with a beef product, and when prompted by a…