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The NSW Government says regional communities are at the heart of the 2013-14 state budget, with its central plank the privatisation of the state's last major port.

The NSW Government says regional communities are at the heart of the 2013-14 state budget, with its central plank the privatisation of the state's last major port.

Iconic rural company's CEO Malcolm Jackman concedes Elders' door is presently shut to suitor and major shareholder RuralCo

Crews in the northern prawn fleet have just wrapped up their season with this year's banana prawn catches down by more than half.

With the Federal Government's Farm Finance debt relief package still stalled, a group of farmers have come to Canberra to argue for more radical measures.

The property market or the types of crops farmers irrigate can change as often as the weather.

More than 300 milimetres of rain has fallen across Gippsland since last Thursday.

Parts of Gippsland have received more than 300 milimetres of rain in less than one week.

Import permits to send cattle to Indonesia in the third quarter have been brought forward and are now available to Australian exporters.

Matt Brann speaks to Bernie Brosnan from the NT Livestock Exporters Association

Import permits to send cattle to Indonesia in the third quarter have been brought forward and are now available to Australian exporters.

Australia's farm exports are forecast to fall by a billion dollars next financial year, because of lower earnings from grain, oilseeds and cotton.

Young singers from across the Northern Territory will travel to Darwin later this month to compete in the Urban Quest music competition.

South Australian researchers are trying to find a way of preventing calves being carriers for a disease that could cost producers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

South Australian researchers are trying to develop a test that can pick up whether or not an unborn calf is carrying the disease Bovine Pestivirus. University of Adelaide PhD student Sasha Lanyon has been working on the project and says the results are looking positive. Read more here.

South Australian researchers are trying to find a way of preventing calves being carriers for a disease that could cost producers hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Demand for fertiliser has increased following widespread rain across south-eastern Australia.

A former livestock officer with the Department of Primary Industries in Cooma, in south-east NSW, has labelled the State Government's approach to the formation of Local Land Services "idiotic".

Doug Alcock, now Principal Consultant with Graz Prophet Consulting in Cooma, says the NSW Government has disrespected staff members with the formation of LLS