Media Release: 26 June 2020 Federal funding to ensure the North Australia & Rangelands Fire Information (NAFI) service’s 2020/21 operation. NAFI provides near real time fire tracking data for land managers, Indigenous communities managing their country, cattle producers, and savanna fire management projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund. Website recorded more than one million hits....
Media Release: 26 June 2020 The Get Ready Queensland Challenge, a new educational game to help Queensland children and their families prepare for future disasters and severe weather, is now available online. The initiative is funded under joint Commonwealth-Queensland Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) through the Community Recovery Fund, established in the wake of the....
Media Release: 25 June 2020 Communities impacted by flooding in Far North and North Queensland in early 2019 will benefit from more than $9 million in grant funding for 119 local projects to boost flood recovery and resilience. Minister for Emergency Management David Littleproud said the funding was the largest round delivered under the $15.5....
FREE Brewing Co founder and Head of Beer, Ash Truscott, tells us more about his business and how they’ve been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. FREE Brewing Co beer can be found at Dan Murphy’s, BWS and local stores. Tell us about Free Brewing. FREE Brewing Co is a true story of passion and belief in organic....
Media release Long-term view key to $100 billion agriculture target Reaching the target of $100 billion in agricultural output will require industry to take a long term view, and continue to take hard choices that lift farm productivity and keep Australian exports competitive against rivals, ABARES Executive Director Dr Steve Hatfield-Dodds told the 2020 ABARES....
Media release Farm production value holds despite bushfires, drought The value of Australian agricultural production is forecast to remain high despite bushfires and prolonged drought, with overseas demand balancing drought-related falls in farm output and incomes. ABARES’ Chief Commodity Analyst Peter Gooday said the value of farm production in fiscal 2019-20 was expected to fall....
17 February 2020 PEAK ORGANIC INDUSTRY BODY AUSTRALIAN ORGANIC LTD PARTNERS WITH ABC ORGANIC GARDENER TO PROMOTE ORGANIC PRINCIPLES Industry body Australian Organic Ltd (AOL) is pleased to announce its partnership with magazine ABC Organic Gardener for 2020 to promote organic principles and educate consumers around making informed choices when it comes to organic products.....
The National Gene Technology Scheme, a collaboration of our Federal, State and Territory governments, is currently under review. While the review is not directly related to the recent Australian Federal Government’s deregulation of the SDN-1 gene editing method (see Australian Organic’s statement on Emerging Gene Technology here), it does include stated objectives such as “streamlining....
In light of the Federal Government’s recent deregulation of the Gene Editing technique known as SDN-1, Australian Organic Ltd has issued an Update to the Australian Certified Organic Standard. The move by our Government means that organisms that have been engineered using this method, will not be considered a “GMO” under Australian Law, and hence....
When: March, 2020 The USA is the largest organic market for organic products, with total organic sales in the U.S. setting a new record of $52.5 billion in 2018. 82% of American households purchase organic products on a regular basis. Program: 4-7th March Natural Products Expo West Anaheim, CA8th March free day....
Swinburne will lead a research project valued at over $2 million to develop new technology that will get milk from farm to fridge more quickly, enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of Australia’s $13.7 billion dairy industry. The ‘Live Inbound Milk Supply Chain Monitoring and Logistics for Productivity and Competitiveness’ project (Milk Supply Chain Project) will....
The organic market in the U.S reached over $52.5 billion in sales in 2018, growing 6.3% since the previous year and hitting a record high according to a recent survey. The 2019 Organic Industry Survey by the Organic Trade Association found that both organic food and non-food grew substantially – with organic food growing 5.9%....
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