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