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A start-up that has created a solution that lets plants store more of the carbon they extract from the atmosphere in the ground has scored… 

Food security is a term that was, until recently, used only in developing countries. But COVID-19 has forced a global rethink on how we grow and source it.

Thanks to rain Australia’s agricultural production is rising in value again, defying the global economic slowdown caused by coronavirus and an expected surplus of farm products on export markets.

Agricultural practices and land management decisions play a key role in the discussion surrounding global greenhouse emissions and climate policy. 

As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on health systems and the global economy it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the scale of the problem. Yet, in our collective response to the pandemic, there is also hope.

Higher than average autumn rain was welcomed with open arms by farmers across the state, but for southern NSW cotton growers it has been yet another obstacle thrown at them in what was already a challenging season.

AUSTRALIAN exporters could be sending malt barley to India as soon as April after the Indian government removed a critical phytosanitary requirement that acted as a roadblock to sales to the subcontinental nation.

Wool Producers Australia chief executive Jo Hall said buyers from Italy and India were sidelined by COVID-19 restrictions in those countries, leaving China in an even stronger position to dictate prices.

When clothing designer Sam Elsom dialled into a 15-person call with environmentalist Tim Flannery, organised by the Climate Council, he didn’t really expect it would send him on a new career path.

With Anzac Day historically being the ‘go to’ date to start the winter sowing program just past, we have seen the majority of growers already well and truly into this season’s sowing program…

GrainCorp says it has no intention of following the lead of other major storage and handling providers in Australia that…

(Reuters) – Global commodities trader Cargill Inc [CARG.UL] starting this spring will pay American farmers for capturing carbon in their field soils and cutting fertilizer runoff, an executive said.

Australian farmers buoyed by recent rain and strong wheat prices are set to add more than a million hectares to grain production this year.

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is among a group of prominent investors to have backed internet of things satellite communications start-up Myriota in a $28 million capital raise.

Farmers are banging down the door of a federal government agency tasked with doling out $4 billion in loans amid fears a finance squeeze will limit agricultural production just when Australia needs it most.

In a remarkable show of rural optimism, fresh polling indicates farmers do not fear a widespread economic backlash from the coronavirus pandemic…

The answer to the Australian dairy industry’s woes lies in changing the production system, according to a leading dairy business analyst.

As the great stock market slide continues, the farming and agribusiness sector is starting to look slightly less disastrous than others.

CORONAVIRUS is changing the way Australians live and that could mean significant and long-lasting benefits for agriculture, forward thinkers are saying.

The pork industry estimates restaurant and hospitality service sector demand has slumped as much as 90 per cent in the past month, yet pig markets are still fetching good money as retail sales fill the big void.

Amazing to think that only a month ago farmers all across NSW and Queensland were rejoicing after continued rains had drenched the east coast.

The gap between Australian rice supply and demand has been exacerbated by Coronavirus…

A miraculous turnaround in farming conditions has brought with it a new challenge for those wanting to restock: record cattle prices.

In a breakthrough in the war on climate change, CSIRO is on the cusp of commercialising a seaweed product, which when sprinkled into feed, makes cattle grow faster and cuts their greenhouse gas emissions to near zero.

If Australia is to become a global agricultural superpower, weak farms need to be allowed to fail.

Average farm business profit on broadacre farms in NSW for this financial year is projected to be the lowest in more than 40 years. Things should get better from here.

The good news is the farm sector will recover quickly. The bad new is the political response to the drought will increase dependence on government for struggling farmers.

As Will Nash looks out on a dry and baron paddock on his central-west New South Wales property, he has a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

The world’s top scientists are now scoping drastic measures to halt the climate crisis…