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A seaweed innovation could reduce livestock methane “from the entire industry” as part of a $29-million climate change program.

Bombs, guns, planes and cotton pickers. Ex-ADF personnel are heading back to school to learn the ropes on farms to help fill the agricultural industry’s worker shortage.

Researchers say moth-eating bats may be the key to dramatically reducing the use of pesticides in wineries, potentially saving the industry $50 million a year.

A nasty bacterial disease that causes sheep to waste away is now considered endemic across New South Wales after spreading into the Northern Tablelands.

The benefits of switching to renewable energy are hard to argue with, but some farmers say the up-front costs are too high and the technology isn’t up to scratch.