Agricultural and Farming Practice

It's known for its mighty five-metre beasts, but this Darwin crocodile park also brings hundreds of baby hatchlings into the world each wet season.

Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than Greenland's melting ice sheets.

RSPCA Australia has withdrawn its certification from salmon farming giant Huon Aquaculture following the release of a video that shows live fish being dumped into bins.

A theory for their cause of death was that a tap from a water tank to a trough was accidentally off. The deaths have horrified people in the agriculture industry, and marks more turmoil at AACo.

The owners of Claravale Farm, who cleared 286 hectares of the property without a land-clearing permit, have reached a settlement with the Northern Territory government. 

From a war-torn childhood in Laos, Dee Thao found her place in Tasmania as a market gardener. While she followed in her parents' footsteps, her children don't feel the same pull to continue the Hmong farming tradition.

Farmers are furious over a decision to grant the company building the VNI West line the power to access their properties without permission.

Anthony Albanese has written to the salmon industry to confirm laws will be introduced that will protect salmon farms on Tasmania's west coast.

'Voluntary milking systems' — or robots — are not new to the industry, but it's hoped a significant uptake of the technology will entice the next generation of producers to stay in the industry.

From tea to cosmetics, lemon myrtle is becoming an increasingly popular ingredient. But growing the trees to meet demand is easier said than done.

The deadly Wangary bushfire 20 years ago appears to have been the final nail in the coffin for yellow-tailed black cockatoos in South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Ecologists are calling for urgent action before it's too late.

A flooding event has enabled cereal and hay crops to be grown on dry lake beds in far western NSW, presenting a unique opportunity for some pastoralists.

In the middle of Tasmania sits a 5,000-hectare property once used for sheep grazing. But when the sheep farmers left, an unlikely buyer moved in.

A group of farmers has withdrawn its appeal of a licence for a Queensland coal mine expansion after 10 years of fighting the proposal in court.

Retired farmer Kerry Pietsch spent six decades restoring vintage machines and has put them on display harvesting wheat for fascinated crowds.

With hundreds of wind turbines soon set to dot the landscape of WA's Central Wheatbelt, community leaders are increasingly worried about how the process is being managed.

South Australian farmers have grappled with a series of uncontrollable weather conditions that have created one of the most challenging seasons on record.

It takes a true love for the land to stay on in the North Queensland cane fields for 84 years. Still going strong, Sam Russo has no plans to retire. 

Sam Elsom's company is farming the red seaweed and ramping up supply to the industry, but he says the federal government could do more to encourage farmers to adopt the seaweed additive.

A leading water researcher says residents are right to be concerned about the discovery of PFOS in carp from the Belubula River in Central West NSW.