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Drought the hottest ever

7:13 AM AWST | The current and on-going drought ranks along side the Federation and World War II droughts as one of Australia's worst, but new figures show it has also been the hottest of all the big dries. | Obama vs McCain on their plans ... | Rising cost of food rates high ...

Rising cost of food rates high on list of consumer concerns

10/10/2008 | New research shows the rising cost of food is among the three greatest consumer concerns in the United States today. | Monsanto USA reports net income ... | It's World Egg Day - crack the ...

Future farms over our heads

7:20 AM AWST | Australian cities must join a global network in which urban farmers grow produce on rooftops, a leading science commentator says. | Rising cost of food rates high ... | Obama vs McCain on their plans ...

Rudd forced to guarantee bank savings

Lower Lakes almost mission impossible: Senate

Rivers need good luck, good management

Livestock markets boosted by A$

Russian market the future for Australian beef

Obama vs McCain on their plans for ag

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Multimedia

VIDEO: Renowned Steam Plains dispersal draws $97.75 for ewes

9/10/2008 | March-shorn Merino ewes made to $97.75 a head for three year olds, and to $90 a head for the two-year-old group during near $970,000 on-property dispersal of the renowned Steam Plains near Carrathool, NSW, Wednesday.

VIDEO: Qld steeled for bumper winter harvest

VIDEO: NSW riders dominate national cutting futurity

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State News

Argyle the new canola diamond

10/10/2008 | The Canola Breeders of Western Australia have released a new variety aimed at optimum performance in medium to high rainfall areas.

WA machinery merger

8/10/2008 | Machinery dealers in shock merger

New look for Harvey Beef

Skeleton weed plan faces axe

WA farm groups push for GM ban end

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Market chaos hits beef exports

The chaos on global financial markets is flowing through to Queensland's beef exports, with ...

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Cancer victim paying steep price for time

11/10/2008 | BREAST cancer sufferer Kay Fleischfresser is determined to live to see her grandchildren grow - so determined that she has mortgaged her home to finance an experimental treatment.

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Nightmare that ended in a quiet inlet

11/10/2008 | IT WAS a tragedy compounded by distance, obfuscation and devastating error. For two weeks, Britt Lapthorne's family's fears intensified as a nation's fascination grew with the compelling story of one of its young lost in a distant land.

United we stand

Obama soars ahead of McCain in poll

Rudd must decide on Afghan commitment

Downer avoids traps of his new brief

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World turns true believers upside down

6/10/2008 | In journalism there is nothing worse than interviewing someone with TB - True Believerism. But the rapidly changing world is turning traditional ideology upside down, leaving TB sufferers supporting a brand and not a belief.

Reinventing rural

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