Amelia Bernasconi

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

US President Donald Trump has singled out Australian beef as he outlined his latest round of tariffs. Australia will be subject to a baseline 10 per cent reciprocal tariff and, while signalling big impacts on Australian beef, the president is yet to detail just how large the tariff will be. "Australia bans — and they're wonderful people, and wonderful everything — but they ban American beef. "Yet we imported $[US]3 billion [$4.8 billion] of Australian beef from them just last year alone.

4 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Lara Webster |Michael Condon |Cara Jeffery

A NSW parliamentary inquiry heard fears that sheep prices for Australia's eastern state producers could drop heavily as live export was being phased out. The report handed down this week made only one recommendation — monitoring industry trends. NSW Farmers says it will continue to push for more action to address the impacts. Farming groups have slammed the findings of a NSW government inquiry into the impact of the live sheep export ban on the state after it delivered just one recommendation.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Courtney Yeandle

Move over gin, distillers say rum is next in line for a resurgence. The number of Australian spirit makers has exploded from around 30 in 2013 to more than 700 today. Around half of those are in regional areas, and the latest addition to the list is at Muswellbrook in the NSW Hunter Valley, in the town's former milk factory. Steve McGarry is the chief executive of the Sydney Rum Distillery, which is in the process of transforming the 1940s-built former Oak milk factory into a rum distillery.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi

Charlie Dunn is only 13 years old but he has already found his passion in life and has been hard at it for the past eight years. Growing up on his family's farm at Culcairn, in southern New South Wales, Charlie started shearing sheep when he just was five years old, with his first pair of blade shears. The skills of a butcher might not seem the stuff of competitive sport. But, stakes were high in Tasmania recently where Australia's best apprentice butchers competed for the national title.

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Amelia Bernasconi |Lara Webster

The embattled Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is under fire for overstating logging data by almost 30 per cent over the past three years. Public data shows amendments to sustainability reports that drastically reduced the reported yield from native forest logging since 2021. The data shows FCNSW, which recorded a loss of $29 million in the 2022-23 financial year, retrospectively reduced yields from public native forests in NSW by 28 per cent.