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- The town of Young in southern NSW is reeling after the closure of the town's biggest employer; South Australian grain growers have harvested their second biggest crop on record.
- Left unchecked, the discharge of effluent could become a dampener on the growth of Australia's booming aquaculture industry. As the industry grows, so too does the amount of waste released. Prawn farmers already find the discharges an impediment to their expansion.
- In the words of Mark Twain, "whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting over",. The fighting has certainly started in Victoria, where farmers are asking the question: who owns the rain? Under certain state government proposals, every trickle into every farm damn used for irrigation could face strict regulation, affecting the viability of individual businesses and burgeoning industries.
- At its heart the EKKA is still very much an Agricultural show and that competition always brings out the best livestock from across the country. Its obviously a huge logistical exercise to get all the animals here, settled in stalls and then primed for their big moment before the judges. Regardless of meticulous preparation over many months, there's always the possibility of a last-minute medical hurdle or two to clear. But with so many highly strung entries, not to mention their owners, who'd be a royal show vet?
- Aquaculture's newest industry is an unusual one. The fish in question are being grown for both the tourist and aquarium markets, not for food, and they are animals some people cannot believe exist. They are seahorses and the industry would not be where it is without the work of a Tasmanian aquaculture Professor and his students nearly a decade ago.
- Turning rural waste into power - there's a piggery in Victoria that's doing it, and sugar mills have been doing it for decades. The latest industry to reap the benefits of utilising its waste is the macadamia nut industry. It's a world first and is going to put more money into the pockets of growers while doing something positive for the environment.
- With their motto: "Waste is a resource in the wrong place at the wrong time," an enterprising group of food scientists in Sydney has turned one of the cheese industry's biggest problems into potential profit. They've developed a technique for converting whey into pharmaceutical grade lactose, worth billions globally for the manufacture of tablets. But as Sean Murphy reports, there's a big gap between promising research and a commercial venture,
- In the past two decades farm tourism has grown in popularity and has provided many property owners with extra income. And a cluster of bed and breakfasts on the Queensland/New South Wales border have stumbled across one crop so beautiful and captivating the tourists cannot resist.
- The constant debate about the merits of forestry can make life for the residents of Australia's timber towns pretty tough. There are demonstrations, protesters, blockades and government inquiries. In the 1980s and early 1990s that was almost everyday life for residents of the southern Tasmanian timber town of Geeveston. They lost their pulp mill - twice - the logging boundaries were redrawn several times, jobs disappeared, the young left town and there was a feeling of hopelessness and pessimism. Few thought Geeveston could recover but it has in quite a remarkable way.