Earth Overshoot Day five months earlier than we can scale the resources of the planet
Maybe, Earth Overshoot Day is a term you are not familiar with. It marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate. You must admit that doesn’t sound like a good thing to be happening. In 2021 Earth Overshoot Day fell on 29 July, […]
Local wine export pivots from China into markets that like a drop
A research report confirms that China’s anti-dumping duties have seriously disrupted the Australia’s wine trade, ranging from 116 to 218% and will cause China’s imports of bottled wine from Australia to cease entirely. The report investigated the short- to medium-term consequences of China’s punitive anti-dumping measures on Australian wine exports and found that only 60% […]
Best soil practices boosted by Soil CRC grant 0f $431,000 and four soil surveys
Southern Cross University’s Dr Hanabeth Luke has gathered a truckload of insights about good soil management after four soil surveys, thousands of responses and countless meetings with farmers. Dr Luke’s research recognises that those on the ground with their hands in the dirt – farmers and agronomists – are playing an increasingly important role as […]
Australian Nut Industry Council awarded $550,000 to assist with market expansion
The Australian Nut Industry Council (ANIC) has received a $550,000 grant from the Australian Government to implement a trade and market access expansion program. The grant is expected to put in place a two-pronged strategy to increase the market share for Australian nut growers, and draw on industry research into high-growth markets for Aussie nuts […]
Meat and Livestock Australia awarded $1.52 million to assist with new export channels
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) will use a $1.52 million Australian Government grant to explore market diversification opportunities within untapped segments of three export markets. The grant is expected to be used to help increase market expansion and diversification for Australian exporters, and in particular MLA is expected to explore new export channels in Saudi […]
Making farms a safer place across the life stages of a farmer
The recently concluded National Farm Safety Week took on the subject of safety issues from childhood to ageing farmers to show how farm safety was important across all age groups. While over half of on-farm fatalities are people over 50, in the last 10 years around 15% of fatal accidents have been kids under 15, […]
Dairy Australia awarded a $310,000 grant to increase trade in South East Asian
Dairy Australia have been awarded a $310,000 grant from the Australian Government to reduce technical barriers to trade across six markets in South East Asia. The grant would enable dairy exporters to build on our trade agreements and identify and reduce the impact of technical barriers to trade. Technical barriers include measures such as product […]
Fenner Conference on Environment aims to make agriculture sustainable
Discussions over ‘circular bioeconomies’ are challenging our commodity-based food production and trading systems that ignore the critical role of food in our health, says Dr Robyn Alders, Crookwell grazier and Honorary Professor, Development Policy Centre, Australian National University. Dr Alders is a speaker at the forthcoming Fenner Conference on Environment “Making Australian agriculture sustainable” in […]
Grains Australia in a leading role to help identify additional grain markets
Grains Australia Limited welcomes today’s announcement that a number of important industry projects will be funded under the Australian Government’s Agricultural Trade and Market Access Cooperation (ATMAC) Program. Grains Australia led the process on behalf of the grains industry to identify and champion projects that deliver greater diversity of export market options, which will ultimately […]
Grains Australia Limited awarded almost $1 million to explore new export channels
Grains Australia (GAL) has been awarded funding of $969,480 to develop new export markets for grains, oilseeds and pulses. The grant has been given to assist develop new overseas markets and accelerate trade diversification where our homegrown grain is highly regarded, such as in Indonesia, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam and the subcontinent. Local growers […]