Matt Brann
Host at ABC News (Australia)
Host at Northern Territory Country Hour
I work for the Country Hour and ABC Landline. Keeping it Rural in the Northern Territory 🥭🐂🐊
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1 day ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
It has been more than two months since Donald Trump's "liberation day" tariffs were announced, which included a 10 per cent tariff on imported Australian beef. But US demand for lean beef has far outweighed the tariff and exports have been surging. "In terms of volume, I don't think Trump's tariffs have had an impact at all," Rabobank analyst Angus Gidley-Baird said.
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5 days ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
Rio Tinto is planting pongamia trees in the Northern Territory and Queensland. The mining giant is aiming to turn pongamia seeds into renewable diesel for its fleet of vehicles. Rio Tinto is now Australia's largest producer of pongamia and should be harvesting seeds within five years. Rio Tinto has started growing pongamia trees in northern Australia, as part of a biofuels project aimed at reducing the mining giant's reliance on fossil fuels.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
Brazil has been officially recognised by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) as being free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) without the need for vaccination. Brazil has spent decades trying to eradicate FMD and has now received this important declaration, which gives its beef industry access to a number of lucrative markets such as Korea and Japan. ABC Rural spoke to Simon Quilty from Global Agritrends about the decision and what it means for Aussie cattle producers.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Fiona Broom |Matt Brann
Rainfall records have been broken in the Northern Territory, as a north-west cloud band sweeps across the outback. According to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), the biggest falls were near town of Katherine, including at the Tindal RAAF base, which received 179 millimetres in just 24 hours. The region has a monthly average of just 5.3mm in May.
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Matt Brann
The Northern Territory's controller of water resources says over the last two years he has made about 300 decisions around water. Andrew Johnson has approved water licences, such as the recent 10,000ML staged licence for Larrimah farms, but he has also denied water licences, and even taken water away from some NT farmers. "We're now starting to focus on Darwin's rural area and Berry Springs for water recovery," he said. "So there's a lot of water on licences not being used...
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