Farmland value index dips
Australia Farming Related News
NSW, Victoria and South Australia are producing the most optimistic results in a difficult market that has seen Herron Todd White's (HTW) national farmland value index dip eight per cent in the past four years.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
Knuth fights Qld price hikes
Australia Farming Related News
MEMBER for Dalrymple Shane Knuth has used State Parliament to slam the State Government for recent electricity price hikes and plans to privatise Queensland's energy industry.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
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Title: Wind Farming
Comments: Not sure Broken Hill is a great place if you know wind meteorology in relation to PBL (Planetary Boundary Layer), it seems that is probably a bit slow out there for moving air. There are probably better places in some coastal regions where it has ranges and the land is quite useless for anything except wind farming.
Rural aged centre opens
Australia Farming Related News
THE once empty dirt block on Betts Street in Hughenden has become a coloured landscape of painted buildings and gardened countryside as the official opening of the Hughenden Centre for the Aged (HCA) draws near.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
New legume capable of persisting in dry times
Australia Farming Related News
AS major parts of Queensland are again in the grips of unusually dry conditions, Progardes, a recently released legume is demonstrating persistence in the harshest of conditions.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
Abattoir action ruled out
Australia Farming Related News
DAFF has ruled out regulatory action against a complaint from RSPCA Australia about animal handling and slaughter practices at an Israeli abattoir which processes Australian sourced livestock.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
Coles milk litmus test
Australia Farming Related News
THE Federal Labor government and Coalition both agree that the litmus test of the big move by Coles to source home-branded milk through two farmer owned co-operatives will be whether dairy producers actually obtain better financial returns.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page
Pastoral success boosts project
Australia Farming Related News
THE success of the NT?s Warrigundu Station will soon help other Indigenous pastoral businesses become commercially viable as part of the federal government?s Indigenous Pastoral Project.
Source: North Queensland Register - Front Page