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QCA fails to deliver electricity price spark

June 26, 2020

The Queensland Competition Authority (QCA) has failed to deliver the spark that farming businesses on transitional and obsolete tariffs need with the release of their final determination on 2020-2021 regulated retail electricity prices for regional Queensland. (more…)

Funding for farm microgrids

June 9, 2020

Farmers may benefit from more secure, affordable and reliable energy after a group of agriculture and energy organisations were successful in securing $654,807 to assess the advantages of microgrids through the Federal Government’s Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund. (more…)

COVID-19 compounds dairy woes

May 6, 2020

QDO welcomes Littleproud’s push for retail levy on all dairy products. (more…)

Have you spotted the parallels?

April 30, 2020

Epidemic, incursion, outbreak: call it what you like, you should take note of what’s happening in Australia in response to COVID-19, because a crop or livestock pest or disease outbreak would play out quite similarly. (more…)

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Agriculture and its workers essential in Maranoa

April 14, 2020

Maranoa farm businesses and communities stand to benefit from an announcement made by the Australian Government to extend working holiday maker and other visas amid the COVID-19 crisis with requirements to support the on-going health of regional communities. (more…)

Fencing funding for invasive pest species

April 6, 2020

Landholders, drought-declared local governments, industry bodies and natural resource management groups are invited to apply for another round of funding under the Queensland Feral Pest Initiative, which supports projects that combat pest animals and weeds. (more…)