Dairy industry looks to rebuilding plan

AUSTRALIA’S dairy farmers, processors and manufacturers will start work next autumn on a co-ordinated national plan that will map out a future direction for the troubled industry.

Nervous farmers bracing for a trade war

Australian farmers are watching the escalating trade war between the United States and China nervously, with growing fears Australian food and fibre exports could get caught in the crossfire.

Farmers fear food bowl will dry up under basin plan

Victorian farmers have warned the federal government and other states not to sacrifice the key food bowl of the Goulburn-Murray irrigation district around Shepparton in a political deal to keep the $13 billion Murray-­Darling Basin Plan on track.