Australia’s supermarkets soften cage-free egg commitments

Australian supermarket chain Coles, the country’s second largest, has extended its cage-free target deadline for branded shell eggs to 2030. The company had committed to being completely cage-free by 2025. Justifying the decision, Coles explained...

Farm To Fuel: Australia’s First Bioenergy Feedstock Strategy To Unlock $10B Low-Carbon Fuel Economy And Regional Jobs

Submissions open for a new national blueprint designed to chart a united approach for Australia’s low-carbon energy future. 3 October 2025 – The Australian Government has opened submissions for its first National Bioenergy Feedstock Strategy, a...

Too Hot To Harvest: Rising Heat Threatens Farm Labour And Food Security

CSIRO Key points Heat stress is not just a biophysical risk affecting yields and quality – it can also generate painful labour market shocks. Cost-effective and robust responses to on-farm working conditions are needed to ensure climate-resilient...

OnlyFans becomes a farm finance option for young producer | Opinion

Love it or hate it, OnlyFans has been a hot topic of conversation lately, and in the world of Australian agriculture, it's been that hot thanks to Farmer Belle, after she was voted Queensland Top Young Farmer for 2025. Congratulations, by the way!

Oil and gas giant to quit Australian renewables despite CIS battery tender win

French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies has confirmed its plans to quit its renewable energy assets in Australia and many other countries, despite its recent win in the federal government’s flagship Capacity Investment Scheme tender. TotalEnergies...

Family Release First Photo of 4-Year-Old Boy Who Vanished in Australian Outback 6 Days Ago By Clare Fisher

NEED TO KNOW The family of 4-year-old August "Gus" Lamont have released the first image of him, six days after he disappeared from his home in the remote Australian outback The image depicts the curly-haired youngster playing with Play Doh The...

Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2025 Sanderson Farms Championship

October 3rd, 2025 By Australian Golf Digest A week after a historic Ryder Cup in New York there are some Ryder Cup mentions this week at the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Mississippi. From the winning European...

ACEN extends P900-M loan for large-scale wind farm in Quezon

ACEN CORP., the listed energy platform of the Ayala group, has extended P900 million in fresh funds to its subsidiary developing a 553-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Quezon province. In a regulatory filing on Thursday, ACEN said it has inked a...

China is purchasing canola from Australia rather than Canada

China is expected to import one million tonnes less of canola in 2025/26 than in the previous marketing year. That's according to the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Beijing. China was projected to acquire 3. China is expected...

Export Development Canada (EDC) highlights support for agri-food sector

The growing middle class, rapid urbanization and shifting dietary trends in the Indo-Pacific and Latin America are creating new opportunities for Canadian exporters, the EDC stated in a press release. OTTAWA — Amid shifting global trade dynamics,...

Big Brother's 'Farmer Dave' asked a random stranger to have his baby. So she did.

"But yeah, here we are five or six years later and we are very, very connected, and he spends lots of time with my kids and loves it." That said, don't expect to see photos of Shazli on his Instagram — or many pics of his five kids. "I don't post...

From space science to dinner plates: Reimagining the future of farming indoors

Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so new solutions are needed for agriculture. An international team from the University of Adelaide, University of Cambridge,...

Farmers’ silent struggle: the crisis in rural Australia

Almost half of Australian farmers report experiencing feelings of depression and 64 per cent say they have dealt with anxiety. Alarmingly, 45 per cent of farmers say they have had thoughts of self-harm or suicide and nearly a third have attempted...

Australia's Tasmania urges stronger action as feral deer numbers surge

MELBOURNE, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Australian island state of Tasmania's feral deer population has surged by nearly 20,000 in five years, prompting calls from government and industry to strengthen control measures. An aerial survey conducted in...

Trump bets the soybean farm on tariffs | Wall Street Journal

China booked Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped export taxes, undercutting U.S. farmers amid stalled trade talks. The move pressured U.S. futures, though analysts say the impact may be limited by Argentina’s supply. Benzinga - News...

Other Editors: Trump bets the soybean farm on tariffs

Whoever claimed trade wars are easy to win clearly wasn’t an American farmer. Witness the enormous collateral damage America’s soybean producers are suffering amid President Trump’s trade war with China. Exports of American soybeans to China have...

Aimer Farming secures NZD $750,000 to accelerate global growth

New Zealand agri-tech company Aimer Farming has received a capital injection of NZD $750,000 from Cultivate Ventures to expand its team, accelerate technology development and move into international markets. This latest investment adds to...

Australia’s craziest working expenses revealed from alpaca yoga retreats to taxidermied kangaroos

From alpaca yoga retreats to psychic readings and taxidermied kangaroos, Australian office workers are footing the bill for some truly bizarre job-related expenses, and it’s costing them thousands. New research reveals that nearly three-quarters...

EDC ramping up support for agri-food sector as exporters pursue new markets

Amid shifting global trade dynamics, Export Development Canada (EDC) is seeing a surge in Canadian agri-food companies exploring new markets to drive business growth, particularly in the sub-sectors of plant-based foods, food innovation and...

Australia: Space Innovation Institute for National Resilience

The Australasian Space Innovation Institute (ASII) has been launched as an independent, not-for-profit initiative designed to accelerate the translation of space research into practical solutions for national, regional, and global challenges....