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Explore what it takes to put food on plates around the world, with our team of specialist reporters covering the big issues of rural life.
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Rural news and events from Queensland and across Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Dodgy reception and outages, why making a phone call in the bush is getting harder
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New data from the Telecommunications Ombudsman has revealed that over four years, more than 50,000 Australians filed complaints about their phone and internet service.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Everyday Aussies are on the front line of Australia's biosecurity battle...here's how you can help
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Backyard observations are helping to keep potentially devastating diseases like bird flu, varroa mite and fire ants at bay.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Unseasonably hot winter temperatures see August records broken across the outback
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You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd slept through spring and woke up in summer with the temperatures across Queensland at the moment.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Bangers and Mash, steak sandwich, parmy, or maybe lambs brain...what's your go-to pub feed?
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Australia is home to some pretty iconic pub feeds...from the classics like a steak sandwich, a parmy, or bangers and mash; to the interesting like lambs brain.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Have you heard of phantom labelling? Major supermarkets are doing it to get you to buy their own disguised products
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Major supermarkets are using cheaper, imported peas for their own disguised home brands...and Australian pea farmers aren't happy.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A social media post and a piece of butchers paper set this woman on a path to empowering remote Indigenous communities
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Tanya Egerton founded the Remote Op-shop Project eight years ago to empower women in remote Indigenous communities, and tackle Australia's fast fashion problem.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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This couple has spent a combined '90 years' fishing on Queensland's remote waters, now their four-year-old granddaughter is helping out
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Rural news and events from Queensland and across Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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It's an iconic Australian native, but you can't buy finger limes in the supermarket.
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Rural news and events from Queensland and across Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Rally the jam makers! After record rain causes massive strawberry losses
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While some celebrated the record rain in Queensland this week it's caused massive losses in the state's strawberry industry during their peak of the season.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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With Australia's hospitality industry revived after the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for second grade avocados to make guacamole is rising.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Telstra and Optus have extended their 3G coverage until October 28.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Is this the solution to cheaper food prices?
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The Queensland Government will appoint a Food Farmers Commissioner after an inquiry into rising supermarket prices.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Scientists have mapped the DNA of the Arabica coffee bean.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Where did you come from? Where do you go, cotton-made clothes?
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On a per capita basis, Australians are the worst fashion wasters in the world. So how can the farmers who grow the fibre used to make them help end the cycle of waste?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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All bids are in on Queensland's best young auctioneer
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There's a lot more to being a good cattle auctioneer than just being able to talk really fast. Just ask Matt Pearce, who has been named the best in the state at the EKKA. And meet the Texan tween taking on Mount Isa's Rodeo scene.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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It already clothes half a billion people, but the Cotton Industry needs to grow
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Reliant on exports and foreign manufacturers, like many Australian industries, Cotton is looking for a way to grow without putting all its eggs in the China basket.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Floods, popcorn and cotton blankets - why Jenna Bell is smiling again
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Farming in the Murrumbidgee Valley hasn't been easy the past few years, but Jenna Bell and her family have pushed through, and just like the cotton and popcorn they grow, she's bouncing back.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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When it comes to escaping, these animals are the GOAT
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They may be prized for their milk, meat, fleece and skins, but goats also bring something unique to the farm - pure mischief.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Fracking banned in iconic river system that fills Lake Eyre
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The Lake Eyre Basin covers one-sixth of Australia and is one of the world's largest internally draining river systems. The move to ban new oil and gas exploration has been welcomed by traditional owners and farmers, but the energy industry said it threatens future supply.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Cotton, competition, and the bidding war for Namoi
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Australia's biggest cotton processor, Namoi Cotton, is currently at the centre of a takeover bidding war between French agricultural giant Louis Dreyfus Company and Singapore-based Olam. It's a major consolidation of owners in an already small industry, and the ACCC is watching closely.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Rex is more than a regional airline, it's also a school bus
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While the collapse of Rex Airlines is worrying for tourism and business, what many Australians may not realise is for isolated families, it's a lot more than an airline. It's a lifeline.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Why AgForce dropped its case against the Environment Minister
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The farmer lobby group says the parties reached an agreement not to pursue their court case over carbon capture and storage in the Great Artesian Basin.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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'Cowgirls don't cry' but they do need each other.
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On the outside, they look like the quintessential Aussie cowgirl - tough, resourceful, and used to pushing through. But inside they are fighting a war with their own bodies, one they've turned to each other to survive.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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