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Warwick Long

Warwick Long

Rural Reporter at ABC Rural Online

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  • Rural
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Warwick Long
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Pork for $175m: Brazilian based JBS snaps up large Australian piggery, Rivalea

JBS will supply a third of Australia’s pig meat after announcing it will buy Rivalea piggery in a $175 million deal.
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‘Going to get worse’: CSIRO predicts more droughts as Murray-Darlin...

Scientists and irrigators unite to warn about the “real challenges” producers and communities face with water available to the system cut by half in the past 20 years.
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Five years since the Australian dairy industry’s darkest day

Murray Goulburn’s decision to cut the price it paid farmers has been shaping the industry ever since.
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Massive fruit salad: Four Goulburn Valley orchards unite in huge deal

Four family-owned, fruit-growing businesses merge with Canadian investors to create one of the largest horticulture operations in Australia, with a view firmly on exports.
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Farmers say lowering carbon ‘ethically right’, Nationals call for f...

Agriculture industry bosses vow to continue to lower emissions from farming, despite an opposing push by the Federal Nationals to have agriculture excluded from any net zero emissions target.
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Australia’s longest-running radio program celebrates 75 years

The Country Hour has been an institution across the country for 75 years and its success has grown from its ability to tell the story of rural Australians.
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‘Clive’ the fruit-picking robot goes to work in Goulburn Valley to ...

In what is believed to be an Australian first, a robot fruit picker will work on two Goulburn Valley properties to see if it is a commercially viable alternative to human labour.

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‘Priceless’ historic tractor that should never have left Australia ...

Despite conceding it should never have been exported, the Government has no plan to retrieve a 108-year-old “unobtainable” Australian tractor about to go under the hammer in the US.
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How pigeon milk could help animal and human health

Pigeon milk is not a topic that has produced volumes of research, but recent studies have revealed some interesting applications for animal and human health.
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Video: Govt Press Conference On Covid-19 - Bermuda Covid-19 Coronav...

[Updated] The Government is holding a press conference this evening [June 1] to update the public on Covid-19. Update 7.13pm: Minister Kim Wilson’s full statement follows below: Good Afternoon, Between Sunday and today there were 335 test results received by the Ministry of Health; and one was posit…
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Why the wool industry is at war with itself

Accusations of dirty tricks, letters from the Agriculture Minister and questions about animal welfare — this is wool industry politics in the lead-up to a crucial leadership election.
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‘You’re kidding’: Rural shire denied drought money for ‘not having ...

Despite being home to dairies, orchards and grain crops, the rural shire of Moira in Victoria has been told it’s 0.1 per cent short of agriculture employment to qualify for a drought assistance grant.
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One quarter of world’s pigs killed by African swine fever, analysts...

The deadly march of pig-killing African swine fever is continuing, with one quarter of the world’s pigs now dead, according to meat and livestock analysts.
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GM technology and the future of farming with Professor Kevin Folta

Controversial biotech advocate and professor at the University of Florida Kevin Folta discusses the future of GM technology.
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Environmentally responsible meat produced by company

The meat and livestock industry often cops a lot of flak about its carbon emissions, but one meat distribution company wants to change that and is selling carbon-neutral beef.
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SPC chairman Hussein Rifai has big plans for business

The new owner of SPC Ardmona is talking global expansion, offices in international markets and more product after taking over the business.
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Murray-Darling Basin debate gives rise to new voices of desperation...

Sick of watching farmers fail, shops close and real estate signs up, new Victorian groups rally in the southern Murray-Darling Basin to fight for their survival.
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Why cheap cheese is worse for dairy farmers than $1 milk

Dollar-a-litre milk may seem cheap, but there is another product on the supermarket shelf that returns even less money to a greater number of Australian dairy farmers.
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Milk wars: What’s at the heart of the dairy industry’s battles?

When the chief of Australia’s largest dairy processor this week said $1 milk “doesn’t make any f**king sense”, years of lobbying by farmers were thrust back into view.
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Meat contaminated with potentially ‘catastrophic’ foot-and-mouth di...

A disease that could potentially wipe out Australia’s multi-billion-dollar livestock industry has been detected at Australian airports.
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Conservation group spends $55 million on farmland in ‘game-changing...

Conservation group Nature Conservancy has purchased two major cattle stations in NSW for $55 million.