2+ hour, 54+ min ago  (466+ words) Based in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, one of Australia's key vegetable-growing regions, Metagen is now leveraging successful outcomes across horticulture, broadacre and sugarcane to broaden its scope into new sectors and territories. The company combines advanced lab services, a range of…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (413+ words) The state government has passed legislation in Parliament that it says will strengthen protections for the Condamine alluvium and high-value agricultural land on the Darling Downs. The decision comes following multiple consultations and a parliamentary hearing with landholders and local…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (560+ words) Running a grazing property requires a careful balance of managing land, livestock, and the unpredictable forces of nature. For Megan and Terry Dunne, who operate Shawlands, a 3, 800-hectare commercial breeding and backgrounding property in the Biloela district of Central Queensland,…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (25+ words) Queensland Country Life Climate change is turning an entire species of green turtles female...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (633+ words) An animal welfare expert says that regulators should think again before introducing mandatory closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring in abattoirs. Technology changes quickly, according to Impetus Animal Welfare principal Michael Patching, but codes and standards do not. Mr Patching spoke at…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (665+ words) Ten years after the first exclusion fences in the modern era were erected in south west Queensland, property managers are still wrestling with the best ways to prevent wild dogs from breaching the openings. At a Leading Sheep event looking…...