Edwina Farley

ABARES: A soil map shows drought pain ranks among worst in recent decades.

The consumer watchdog has taken action against the daughter of the food personality Maggie Beer, as part of a crackdown on false claims about food products.

Agribusiness and rural services company Elders has set itself an ambitious target of $60 million in profit by 2017.

The Federal Government will change the bonus payments for rural doctors, after complaints from health groups.

Anyone on a working holiday visa will have to pay tax from their first dollar earned, rather than their first $18,200 of earnings being tax-free.

Despite promising $100 million for rural research and development prior to the last election, the Federal Government has wiped out more than that amount through cuts to the Co-operative Research Centres.

The Federal Government will change the bonus payments for rural doctors, after complaints from health groups.

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a slow start to the wet season and cooler days for south-eastern Australia.

Superannuation funds say agriculture will take an ever larger part of the investment pie over the next few years.

A lot has been made of the Four Corners report on the NSW Government’s failings in ensuring environmental water flows continue across the Murray-Darling catchment. But what do people within the catchment actually think?