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Meet the weapons officer who has found his way back to the farm

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Bombs, guns, planes and cotton pickers. Ex-ADF personnel are heading back to school to learn the ropes on farms to help fill the agricultural industry's worker shortage.

It's another bumper year for cotton despite a wet start. But who is Australia selling to after the China trade ban?

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Australia's cotton harvest has kicked off, with the industry working to shore up alternative export markets two-and-half years on from the China trade ban.

Legal challenges to land clearing for cotton launched by land council, NT environment group

Monday, 13 February 2023

An environmental group and the Top End's Aboriginal land council are bringing separate lawsuits over a clearing permit they say could damage important habitats and jeopardise sacred Indigenous sites.

New technology to help prevent millions of dollars of damage to Australian crops

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

A network of weather monitoring towers is giving farmers real-time warnings about spray drift risks.

Record $350,000 fine for cotton grower who illegally took nearly double their water allocation

Friday, 3 February 2023

A NSW irrigator pleads guilty to building a dam without approval and knowingly pumping almost double their water allocation from the Gwydir River for years.