Warwick Long

Scientists and irrigators unite to warn about the “real challenges” producers and communities face with water available to the system cut by half in the past 20 years.

Murray Goulburn’s decision to cut the price it paid farmers has been shaping the industry ever since.

Four family-owned, fruit-growing businesses merge with Canadian investors to create one of the largest horticulture operations in Australia, with a view firmly on exports.

Agriculture industry bosses vow to continue to lower emissions from farming, despite an opposing push by the Federal Nationals to have agriculture excluded from any net zero emissions target.

The Country Hour has been an institution across the country for 75 years and its success has grown from its ability to tell the story of rural Australians.

In what is believed to be an Australian first, a robot fruit picker will work on two Goulburn Valley properties to see if it is a commercially viable alternative to human labour.

Despite conceding it should never have been exported, the Government has no plan to retrieve a 108-year-old “unobtainable” Australian tractor about to go under the hammer in the US.

Pigeon milk is not a topic that has produced volumes of research, but recent studies have revealed some interesting applications for animal and human health.

[Updated] The Government is holding a press conference this evening [June 1] to update the public on Covid-19. Update 7.13pm: Minister Kim Wilson’s full statement follows below: Good Afternoon, Between Sunday and today there were 335 test results received by the Ministry of Health; and one was posit…

Accusations of dirty tricks, letters from the Agriculture Minister and questions about animal welfare — this is wool industry politics in the lead-up to a crucial leadership election.

Despite being home to dairies, orchards and grain crops, the rural shire of Moira in Victoria has been told it’s 0.1 per cent short of agriculture employment to qualify for a drought assistance grant.

The deadly march of pig-killing African swine fever is continuing, with one quarter of the world’s pigs now dead, according to meat and livestock analysts.

Controversial biotech advocate and professor at the University of Florida Kevin Folta discusses the future of GM technology.

The meat and livestock industry often cops a lot of flak about its carbon emissions, but one meat distribution company wants to change that and is selling carbon-neutral beef.

The new owner of SPC Ardmona is talking global expansion, offices in international markets and more product after taking over the business.

Sick of watching farmers fail, shops close and real estate signs up, new Victorian groups rally in the southern Murray-Darling Basin to fight for their survival.

Dollar-a-litre milk may seem cheap, but there is another product on the supermarket shelf that returns even less money to a greater number of Australian dairy farmers.

When the chief of Australia’s largest dairy processor this week said $1 milk “doesn’t make any f**king sense”, years of lobbying by farmers were thrust back into view.

A disease that could potentially wipe out Australia’s multi-billion-dollar livestock industry has been detected at Australian airports.

Conservation group Nature Conservancy has purchased two major cattle stations in NSW for $55 million.