• National Rural
• 1  Elders banks $40.5m profit
• 2  Macquarie Pastoral posts surprise loss
• 3  How $1.5b surplus hides $8.7b deficit
• 4  Fat chance for heifers
• 5  Large scale carbon forestry planting underway

• State
• 1  Cleaner river, better crops with biochar
• 2  Shannon makes sheep count
• 3  Let them all eat cake
• 4  Seeding stalls as wait for rain starts
• 5  Consultation call for grain money

• Photos
• 1  Snapped at the Dubbo Show
• 2  Arthur Pieman 4WD Rally
• 3  Hot 100
• 4  Mount Lambie service station fire
• 5  2012 Katherine Races

• Rural Network
• 1  Macquarie Pastoral posts surprise loss
• 2  Obeid family and friends reap millions from lucrative coal licences
• 3  Bumper cropping
• 4  Supermarket giants killing country stores
• 5  Cotton harvest revitalises communities