Category: Agrotech

Farmers robbed of 12 months of income by freak hai...

Some Queensland farmers lost 100 per cent of their crops during vicious weather last year but didn't receive government support as...

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Are California soda taxes effective?

Study finds that the taxes raise revenues, but may not decrease sales California is home to four of the eight active soda taxes in...

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Raids on rural properties uncovered over $31 milli...

The Australian Taxation Office says two raids on properties in rural Victoria have helped to disrupt the operations of organised c...

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James' bananas may well set the record for the lon...

While a more than 6,000-kilometre trip from Australia's east coast to its west, then up, may seem a long way for ripe fruit, in Eu...

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Robots lend a hand picking berries as labor shorta...

A northern Tasmanian strawberry farm has shipped out a fleet of 16 robots from the UK to help with picking amid ongoing labour sho...

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This couple turns unwanted fruit into big business

At a small family-owned factory in Gin Gin in Queensland's Bundaberg region, hundreds of thousands of mangoes not up to supermarke...

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Scientists say they can reduce the sugar content o...

Two years ago health authorities gave natural fruit juice a lower health-star rating than diet cola, but a CSIRO breakthrough coul...

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Buyers may not care where their flowers come from,...

When you buy a bunch of flowers today for that someone special, do you know where the blooms were grown? Does it even matter? 

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Why lower ocean freight costs are a massive win fo...

Food such as grapes, citrus, and grain may be shipped to more overseas markets this year due to a drop in global sea freight rates...

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Why researchers hope this trial will help future-p...

A South West winery has cloned one of Margaret River's most famous red wine varietals.

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This Farmer Lives In A Town Of 300 But His Videos ...

From a humble cottage on the Murray River in South Australia, farmer Mintu Brar shares stories about life in rural Australia with ...

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Petal prices are up this Valentine's Day, but Aust...

Romantics may be shocked at the rising cost of flowers this Valentine's Day, but after disastrous flooding, growers say it is a ch...

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