Kate Dowler

Update, January 1, 4pm

A decade-long decline in global agricultural research and development investment is pushing up food prices and causing farm productivity to decline, a new economic analysis has warned.

Faced with often years-long wait times for medical appointments and mental health assessments for students in their community, an independent rural school has taken the unique step of employing an in-house psychologist.

Update: Tuesday, March 10

Vets are calling for better access to e-scripts via regional pharmacies to ease the pressure on the animal health sector, as transport costs mount due to the fuel crisis.

Federal agencies have conducted a surprise blitz on 18 vineyards in South Australia’s premium wine producing regions, in what’s just the tip of a three-year campaign targeting the nation’s wine producers.

Australia’s agriculture and food system remains “under serious pressure from rising diesel prices, supply constraints and ongoing strain in fuel distribution”, says a major new report commissioned by the federal government.

Australia’s chemical regulator should be guided by science, not activists, in making its decision whether to ban the controversial weedkiller and crop desiccant paraquat.

Farm shed invention now a $450k global business

JBS has retreated on its 2021 pledge to reach net zero across its supply chain by 2040, abandoning a target that covered livestock producers supplying the global meat giant.