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• NuCoal Decision "Tip of the Iceberg": NSW Farmers

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  Created: Tuesday, 06 December 2011 08:32

  The Land   BRONWYN FARR   NSW Farmers President Fiona Simson was delighted to hear that NuCoal would stay off Appletree Flat farmer Ian Moore’s property – but questioned whether the move would ultimately prove to be merely th...

• Basin Rescue Plan Gives in to the Miners, say Greens

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  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 13:08

  The Land   ANNA PATTY, SMH   THE NSW Greens have labelled the Murray-Darling Basin rescue plan as a ''blueprint for coal seam gas extraction across northern NSW''. The Greens spokesman on rural water and mining, Jeremy Buckingham,...

• La Nina Loses Cool in 10th Hottest Year

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  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 12:53

  The Land   ADAM MORTON, THE AGE   THIS year is on track to be the 10th warmest on record and the hottest in which a La Nina event has suppressed global temperatures, the World Meteorological Organisation says. A preliminary snap...

• Govt asks NuCoal to Suspend Mining

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  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 12:51

  The Land   BRONWYN FARR   NUCOAL has today called a trading halt, pending a further announcement from the company, following an announcement from the NSW State government asking it to suspend its activites. The request was called ...

• New MSA Symbol Makes its Mark

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  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 12:45

  The Land   CARLA WIESE-SMITH   MEAT Standards Australia (MSA) is launching a new look symbol that will make it easier than ever for consumers to select quality beef. The green and gold “MSA graded” symbol is set to be used i...

• Minister Officially Opens Grafton LHPA Office

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  Created: Thursday, 01 December 2011 12:24

  The Hon Katrina Hodgkinson MP Minister for Primary Industries Minister for Small Business MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday, 29 November 2011 Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson today officially opened the new North Coast Livestock Health and Pes...

• Northern NSW Flooded by Heaviest Rain in Years

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  Created: Thursday, 24 November 2011 15:48

  The Land   THE Northern Tablelands is being flooded by its heaviest rain in years with 50 to 100 millimetres falling in the last 24 hours, and there's much more to come, weatherzone.com.au reports. Armidale has received 79mm in the last 24 ...

• NFF Welcomes Mining Research Body

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  Created: Thursday, 24 November 2011 08:46

  The Land   THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed the announcement that a scientific expert committee will be established to conduct research into the impacts of mining and coal seam gas extraction on agricultural and envir...

• Managing Foot and Mouth Disease

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  Created: Thursday, 24 November 2011 08:43

  The Land   THE Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has released a review of Australia’s ability to manage to an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD). The report – A review of Australia’s preparedness for the t...

• Nutting Out Keys to Success

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  Created: Thursday, 24 November 2011 08:41

  The Land   SHAN GOODWIN   FROM composting to record keeping, building up beneficial insect populations and collecting on-farm carbon sources to their latest innovation – cultivating fungi to battle yield-stripping diseases – ...

• Anger as Authority Proposes Slashing Murray-Darling's Reserved Water

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  Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 11:47

  The Land   DAVID WROE, TOM ARUP, THE AGE   THE amount of water set aside to boost the health of the ailing Murray-Darling Basin could be slashed by hundreds of gigalitres, a draft plan obtained by the Herald shows. The plan also ap...

• Nufarm Unveils Latest Roundup

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  Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:59

  The Land   CAMERON THOMPSON   THE Melbourne-based global agri-chemical company, Nufarm, says it has sidestepped the reverberations of the global financial crisis by concentrating on products considered basic essentials by p...

• Monitor Reveals Most Banks Pass on Rate Cut

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  Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:57

  The Land   THE National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has released the November Agribusiness Loan Monitor, which shows that four financial institutions have reduced their agribusiness loans off the back of the Reserve Bank of Australia (R...

• NSW Farmers President heads to the North Coast

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  Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 08:49

  NSW Farmers President Fiona Simson will be the guest speaker at the Wingham Branch Christmas Dinner next week. Mrs Simson will discuss rural industry issues with members of the Wingham Branch before the official dinner gets underway, and will p...

• Nationals Welcome Santos Back-Down

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  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 15:45

    The Land     MEMBER for Tamworth Kevin Anderson says he welcomes a move by Santos to withdraw their application to run a coal seam gas pipeline from Narrabri to Wellington as a victory for commonsense and a display of goodwi...

• Producers Back Pig Slaughter Levy Boost

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  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 11:51

  The Land   AT THE industry Annual General Meeting in Canberra yesterday, Australian pig farmers endorsed the proposal to increase the pig slaughter levy by 90 cents. The pig slaughter levy funds are collected from producers to support the pe...

• Winds of Change for New Energy Investment

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  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 09:03

  The Land   DAVID WROE   CANBERRA: Australia's gradual shift away from coal and towards cleaner energy has begun, government figures released yesterday showed, with nearly half of new energy investment being in wind, hydro and solar...

• Windsor's Way: How to Fix CSG Mess

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  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 08:44

  The Land   MATTHEW CAWOOD   FOR most farmers, coal seam gas (CSG) issue emerged from nowhere and now threatens to overturn long-held assumptions about what it means to own farmland. Unprepared, battling against a tidal wave of ca...

• State Opposition Talk Tough on CSG

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  Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 08:34

  The Land     NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson and Country Labor candidate Peter Ellem yesterday met with local business people to discuss the push to suspend all Coal Seam Gas exploration in the Clarence. “Country Labor has ta...

• SCG Inquiry Heads to NSW Parliament

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  Created: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 14:05

  The Land   COAL seam gas industry members will have the opportunity to present an alternate perspective at tomorrow’s public hearing of the Upper House inquiry into coal seam gas, Resources and Energy Minister Chris Hartcher said today. ...