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Oyster industry recovers from flood, fire

Australian oyster farmers have had to contend with bushfires and floods as well as the COVID pandemic, which closed the restaurants they sell to.

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Bushfires, floods and COVID have wreaked havoc on oyster leases around the country.

Migrant women farmers honoured in Top End

Two migrant women have been recognised for their contribution to Australian agriculture after building large-scale farms supplying the major supermarket chains.

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Gabi Bloecker (left) and Tou Saramat Ruchkaew developed businesses supplying the supermarket chains.

Queen bees buzzing over $2m hive support

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Nearly $2 million is being put into apiary projects to get the NSW bee industry humming again.

NSW acquires one of the ‘world’s strongest mice-killing chemicals’ as battle against plague escalates

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Dead mice are seen at a property in Coonamble in central west NSW.

Australia on the verge of a MAJOR free-trade agreement

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Australian meat could soon be granted tariff-free entry to the United Kingdom under a major free-trade deal.

Animal rights activists BLASTED as ‘idiots’ over ‘reprehensible’ mouse plague comments

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An animal rights organisation has been blasted for demanding farmers not kill the mice plaguing their properties in regional Australia.