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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
Australia’s largest state farming organisation says United Airlines’ repeated biosecurity breaches deserve more than a slap on the wrist.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
Crookwell High School teachers brought the farm to school recently, hosting a successful Agriculture Day aimed at inspiring students. The event, a collaboration with local conservation initiatives and agriculture organisations, focused onbuilding community resilience in the face of challenges like drought.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin has strongly criticised activists in the NSW Government following media reports on land clearing. On Friday , media reports incorrectly claimed NSW was “a global hotspot for deforestation”, citing NSW Government figures claiming “landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023”.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
A new report reveals Australian vegetable growers are continuing to question their economic viability as more than a year’s worth of low or negative margins threaten the long-term sustainability of the industry. More than one third of commercial vegetable growers were considering walking away from the sector in the next 12 months according to the AUSVEG Vegetable Industry Sentiment Report.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
More than 2000 farmers and supporters travelled from across the country for the National Farmer Rally in Canberra on Tuesday 10 September 2024. NSW Farmers members, who demanded a fair go for farmers, were joined by people from all states and territories, including the National Farmers’ Federation, and truckies and farmers from Western Australia who would be drastically impacted by the Australian Government’s ban on the live export of sheep by sea.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Libby-Jane Charleston |Stephen Mudd
The cost-of-living crisis facing Australian families and supermarket price inquiries was the focus of a recent Farm Writers event in Sydney, where ACCC deputy chair Mick Keogh and Victorian Farmers’ Federation President Emma Germano discussed whether supermarkets were the ones to blame.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd |Michelle Hespe
Australia’s farming history goes back to the First Fleet and the fledgling colony of NSW, when growing food was a matter of survival for British soldiers, sailors and convicts in a strange, new land. While the first farm at what is now Sydney’s Botanic Gardens produced mixed results, James Ruse’s Rose Hill farm proved Australia could produce crops and John Macarthur’s small flock of merinos would lay the foundation for future colonial prosperity.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Michael Burt |Stephen Mudd
Jeremy Clarkson has become a celebrity farming hero in the UK for exposing the realities of running a farm as a business in the hit show Clarkson’s Farm. In Season Three, Clarkson sets himself a ‘farming the unfarmed’ challenge to earn more from feral deer, pigs, goats, mushrooms and nettles on unproductive parts of his farm than from traditional cropping operations. “It’s good for the deer. It’s good for the trees.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
NSW Farmers says the Albanese Government reshuffle presents a fresh opportunity for a practical and commonsense approach to the agricultural industry. On Sunday Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Tasmanian MP Julie Collins would replace Murray Watt as Agriculture Minister, adding to her existing portfolio of Small Business.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
thefarmermagazine.com.au | Stephen Mudd
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) is about to embark on its annual farm survey program collecting data from hard-working producers across Australia. The information collected each year is integral in supporting decision-making about the future of Australian agriculture.
