Monsoonal flooding, heavy rainfall and three cyclones have swamped Queensland’s remote Gulf of Carpentaria during the past two wet seasons.While the destructive deluge made national headlines, it has been great for commercial fishers who say it has been raining fresh caught seafood.John Kemeridis, 73, has worked the waters of Karumba, about 600 kilometres north of…
Australia’s peak livestock body has assured consumers a supplement fed to cows to reduce methane emissions is safe, after the product became the centre of a social media storm.The supplement Bovaer found to reduce emissions from cattle burps and flatulence by up to 90 per cent, is used by Australian cattle farmers who produce Coles’s…
If you have noticed the price of orange juice is higher than you remember, there is a good reason. And supermarkets are not to blame.A soaring global orange juice price has bumped up local juice prices amid other rising manufacturing costs, such as power and labour costs.And that makes it bad news for juice companies…
Australian avocado farmers who have battled low prices and gluts in recent years are setting their sights on lucrative export markets.Despite the industry dealing with oversupply, some farmers are planting more trees as global demand for avocados continues to grow.Among them is Riverland avocado farmer Justin Loffler, who recently planted more than 600 new trees.Justin…