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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane |Kim Honan
The highly contagious white spot disease has been detected in wild prawn populations offshore areas near the Clarence, Evans and Richmond rivers. The discovery came just as a two-year ban on the sale of green prawns from the Clarence River was due to end. Prawn fishermen in the Clarence say a two-year extension to an existing control order could end their industry.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Kim Honan |Lauren Bohane |David Claughton
As the global trade war escalates, Australian meat exporters are growing increasingly worried about the possibility of a recession. Australia exports about 70 per cent of what is produced by the agriculture sector, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). The biggest exports are grains, meat, cotton and wool.
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2 months ago | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane |Kim Honan
Dairy farmers have been forced to dump thousands of litres of milk due to flooding caused by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Some producers have found ways to use their excess milk and processor Norco has continued to pay those unable to have the product delivered. Some farmers remain unsure when trucks will regain access to their properties.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Kim Honan |Lauren Bohane |Joshua Becker
As the world's deadliest bee pest continues its slow spread across Australia, beekeepers are seeking out chemical-free treatments. Beekeeper Jackie Morrison is looking for an alternative to miticide strips, a chemical treatment used in hives to kill varroa mite. She says her customers want products free of chemical residues. "They want to see clean, natural, pure, unadulterated honey and wax and that's exactly what we aim to keep producing," she said.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane
For the first time since 2020, Australian rock lobster is on the menu for those celebrating Lunar New Year in China, after trade restrictions were lifted in December. Those in the industry say the end of the trade ban, combined with the holiday period, has created the strongest domestic market since the ban was imposed. Lobster fisher Noel Gogerly, who operates out of Tuncurry on the NSW Mid North Coast, said prices on the Australian market were up 15 per cent compared to last year.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane
A small fishing community on the New South Wales Mid North Coast has been left shattered after the local seafood co-op burnt down during the region's peak tourism season. Around 20 fishers were involved with the Laurieton co-op, which had been operating for nearly half a century. Owner Cody Weston said he was "gutted" to see the building this morning. "I just felt sick in the stomach, like I wanted to spew, but there's not much you can do," he said.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane
Australia is a nation of coffee lovers, but less than half of one per cent of the coffee consumed across the country is grown here. Bad weather over the past year in key coffee producing countries such as Brazil and Vietnam has sent the price of coffee beans soaring. The global price of Arabica beans peaked at US$3.47 (AU$5.60) per pound in December last year, its highest price since 1977. So could this trigger a boom in demand for home-grown coffee? Grower Richard Gibson does not think so.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lani Oataway |Lauren Bohane
Wildlife ecologists are baffled by flying foxes that are not roosting at many of their favoured summer locations across New South Wales this year. Thousands of the creatures seasonally occupy Cook Park in Orange in the state's Central West, but this year there are none. At the same time, equally popular camps at Bathurst's Machattie Park and Cowra Golf Club have significantly smaller colonies than in recent years.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Lauren Bohane |Tim Fookes
Andrea Hamilton-Vaughan was six years' old when her father fell asleep behind the wheel of the family car. In the crash that followed, Ms Hamilton-Vaughan and her sister Deborah were thrown through the windscreen. She remembers lying in the middle of the road metres away from her sister, and a truck driver arriving at the scene. "My father had a car on top of him. My mother was in dire straits, but I don't remember that part," Ms Hamilton-Vaughan said.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
en.mogaznews.com | Lauren Bohane
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