Budget '08: Investing in infrastructure
6:36 AM AEST | A multi-billion dollar boost to the Building Australia Fund and cuts to regulation are expected in what industry is calling Treasurer Wayne Swan's 'infrastructure budget'.
Plan to make timber industry pay for rain
11/05/2008 | In a blow to Victoria's massive plantation industry, the State Government has moved to make thirsty timber plantations accountable for the water they use.
Large US wheat crop may not drop prices
10:31 AM AEST | With world wheat stocks at historic lows, producers have been enjoying unprecedented high prices for wheat this year. But predictions of a bumper US crop have many wondering if the good times will last.
Bush anger over Turbines
PASTORALISTS are demanding to be paid compensation for land used in a proposed $2 billion wind ...

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Yanmar in Ballarat gold strike
9:35 AM AEST | Yanmar is back and geared for the long haul. The increasingly bullish PFG Australia organisation has just announced it has added the famous Japanese marque to its burgeoning range of brands.

Practice makes perfect studies
8/05/2008 | BY TOM DAWKINS AN interstate field trip by a group of University of Adelaide agricultural science students has confirmed the need for undergraduates to spend more time on-farm, applying their scientific knowledge in practical environments.
Progress defies rising costs
8/05/2008 | SEEDING is under way for the Stone brothers on their 4000-hectare property at Torrita in the heart of the Victorian Mallee.
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