Mutton Dressed as Profit
New Profits from Old Sheep? Image from ‘Productive Sheep Husbandry’ from Internet Archive Book Images with no known copyright restrictions. Dry aged mutton could be the next big thing in food thanks to a trial between farmers and chefs at the William Angliss Institute. Led by Chef Dale Lyman, a team of Melbourne based researchers have […]
Pressure Mounts: Global Activism Continues to Threaten Live Exports
The Australian live export industry is experiencing increasing pressure from animal activists and politicians since it was discovered that 2400 sheep died upon the ship Alwassi. Image by Shpernik088 from Wikimedia reproduced under an Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The increasing voice of animal activists continues to mount pressure upon the Australian live export trade, with several protests held […]
Step Up: Australian Agriculture Needs to Tackle Future Skills Needs Head-On
While Australian agriculture faces an exciting period of growth, an ageing workforce and skills shortages need to be addressed. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Growing international demand for Australian food, changing food trends and an ageing agricultural workforce will have a significant impact upon the pool of available workers unless […]
Nuts about Fruit: Asian demand to drive Australian horticulture growth
Image: Premium quality fruit has placed Australian on the front foot of growing demand by Asian consumers. Image from pxhere, published under CCO 1.0 agreement. A forecasted medium-term boom for the horticulture sector will be driven by growth in the nut and fruit sectors, according to the latest ABARES outlook report. The gross value of Australian horticultural […]
Breaking: New Zealand Government Orders 22,000 Cow Cull
Image: Mycoplasma bovis is a highly contagious disease affecting dairy cows worldwide. Rotary Milking Parlor by Gunnar Richter published under a BY-SA 3.0 attribution. New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has called for a cull of all cows on 28 properties on the South Island, in a response to an outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis. The disease […]
Good Luck Strikes: Eyre Peninsula Grain Port Project Announced
Image: An artist’s impression of the proposed Lucky Bay grain port. The tiny town of Lucky Bay on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula will house a brand new grain port valued at $115 million, thanks to the State’s first farmer and private equity partnership. Consortium T-Ports raised $96 million in private investor equity for the project […]
Queensland Scheme Seeks to Address Ag’s Labour Shortage
Image: Corn in my side – A lack of available labour is an issue for many sectors of agriculture. Image by USDA, available at Flickr through a CC-BY 2.0 agreement. A pilot program kicked off in Queensland earlier this month, with the aim of connecting job seekers with potential employers in an attempt to fill agricultural […]