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South-west dairy group Challenge Milk will begin trialing a new technology to try to create a milk that protects against stomach ulcers.

Green groups have welcomed the Western Australian Government's decision to delay expansion of the Ord irrigation scheme, in Western Australia's north, saying it allows time for the first stage to be properly assessed.

The Federal Government's main forecasting agency says Australia's income from commodities exports is expected to reach a new record in the next financial year.

Resource company Mount Gibson Iron has shipped its first two loads of iron ore from Koolan Island in the Buccaneer Archipelago, off Western Australia's north-west.

The Western Australian Government has commissioned an independent review into its spending on cane toad research and control.

Rain has further delayed the sugarcane harvest in the Herbert region of north Queensland.

A growing interest from China in Australian wine is being linked with a rising number of tourists.

A council from the New South Wales south coast is offering cheap holidays for drought-stricken farmers in the western region so they can take a much-needed break.

Rain has again delayed the start of the sugarcane crushing season in north Queensland.

While the major political parties debate the shape of a national trading system for greenhouse gases, many businesses are not waiting.

Tasmania's Primary Industries Minister says he is pleased the salmon industry in the state is no longer using the human antibiotic amoxycillin to treat disease in farmed fish.

The Perth Magistrates Court has fined Alcoa $20,000 over a big caustic solution spill at its Wagerup refinery.

Farmers angry about the Victorian Government's new water pipeline plan have launched a petition in protest.

South Australia's Health Minister John Hill is pleased that folic acid will be added to wheat bread flour.

Bank SA and Access Economics have released a survey showing that South Australia's rate of population growth has risen, driven largely by immigration and fewer young people moving interstate.

Tasmania's fox eradication taskforce has 20 new field officers.

The West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority is seeking public feedback on its final strategy for the Macalister irrigation district in south-east Victoria.

Farmers across the Wimmera and Mallee in western Victoria are finishing off sowing winter crops in the best conditions in 20 years.

A Wimmera poultry producer in south-west Victoria is set to start building a new hatchery.

The operators of a goat abattoir linked to a Q fever outbreak in South Australia's Riverland say they are reconsidering plans to expand production.