THREE new cases of Bluetongue virus BTV3 have been confirmed in the United Kingdom and authorities have warned there is a high risk of onward spread in the UK. The..Read More
Sheep Central, August 30, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S national farmer body has called on the Albanese Government to give up on further taxing farmers with a biosecurity protection levy, as Nationals leader David Littleproud reiterated his opposition…Read More
It is a story no rural journalist would want to write and no one in the industry would want to read…Read More
James Nason, June 17, 2024
QUEENSLAND wool growers are leading the nation in declaring their Producer Identification Codes as a biosecurity measure…Read More
Sheep Central, June 5, 2024
The National Farmers’ Federation has thanked senators who stood up for farmers in parliament this week, declaring their opposition to the proposed biosecurity protection levy and increasing the likelihood that supporting legislation will not pass the Senate…Read More
Sheep Central, May 15, 2024
THE RURAL and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee has recommended that the Senate pass biosecurity protection levy legislation in a report released on Friday…Read More
Emma Alsop, May 13, 2024
AGRICULTURE maintained the rage against the Federal Government’s proposed biosecurity protection levy with a National Day of Action and protest at Beef2024 in Rockhamption today…Read More
Sheep Central, May 8, 2024
AN mRNA vaccine for Border Disease in sheep and goats has been manufactured for the first time in New South Wales, in an initiative expected to boost Australia’s preparedness for emergency animal disease incursions…Read More
Sheep Central, May 8, 2024
A NEW national study of the prevalence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Australian livestock on pastures fertilised with sewage biosolids or wastewater is seeking farmer collaborators…Read More
Sheep Central, May 1, 2024
AUSTRALIAN wool growers might vote for a reduced levy for research, development and marketing this year if the proposed biosecurity protection levy was introduced, a Senate committee inquiry was told yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, April 24, 2024
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry officials have voiced concerns around a possible container levy or further increases to full import declaration (FID) charges, proposed by agricultural and freight groups as funding stream alternatives to the controversial biosecurity protection levy…Read More
Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024
Australia’s livestock industries were still “in the dark’ on how the Federal Government’s proposed biosecurity protection levy would be collected just months from its proposed commencement on 1 July this year…Read More
Sheep Central, April 23, 2024