New title, same shenanigans. 🗞️ As always, send your feral pest tip offs, biosec stories, cracking rural life leads and dob in young farmers changing the game to [email protected] 📩 #AusAg #JournoNews

What came first - the emu or the egg? Vodafone's wrapped on April 18, after Ad Standards found a breach on April 15. Either way, rural communities are none too pleased. www.theland.com.au/story/9238691

One of those pinch-me moments, when research becomes a story becomes a piece pinned to a university wall. I LOVE working with researchers to help showcase the real-world applications of their study on and off farm. Don't forget I'm an email away 📩 [email protected]

brb touching grass 🌱 pls send all ag news tips, biosec gossip and other good ideas to [email protected] Hoping to tee up some road trips into Western NSW this winter to test out my winter camping gear, so if you know anyone who's shearin', sowin' or otherwise a legend up for a chat, HMU!

"The problem is having a private charity enforce criminal laws...That may have been acceptable in the early 1800s, but in 2026 in Australia it's certainly not." www.theland.com.au/story/9221879/ #AnimalWelfare #AusAg

Budget estimates digging up the stats that might otherwise get missed - with a breakdown of exactly how many Stock Welfare Panels have been conducted in NSW, and what their outcomes were. If you work in ag, this one's a must-read, with more reporting to come. www.theland.com.au/story/9218197/

Data revealed in budget estimates showed almost one third of cases referred to stock welfare panels ended in seizures, with a full breakdown of the numbers since the establishment of SWPs, all at the link below. #AusAg #AnimalWelfare #AgSky www.theland.com.au/story/9218197

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My lovely colleague Elizabeth Anderson got potentially THE sweetest story at the Show this year - a proposal on the cattle lawns 😭 💞 🌈 www.theland.com.au/story/9216341/

Chook in the pigpen! Nick 'Chook' Hreszczuk has added porcine producer to his resume in a in new venture. Puns ahoy at the link. www.theland.com.au/story/9216464/ #AusAg #AusPork

The Merino has been trotting around Australian pastures fairly well since colonisation, and while the process of grow sheep, shear sheep, wear wool, has stayed the same for nigh on 250 years, more has changed than you may think. 👀 #AusAg #WearWool #AgSky www.theland.com.au/story/9209892/

#BREAKING - a new vertebrate pest species has been confirmed in NSW, with biosecurity officers working to eradicate the new incursion. It's all hands on deck to get this cervid menace under control. www.theland.com.au/story/9208803/ #Biosecurity #AgSky #AusAg

Darling Downs farmer Brent Finlay puts it pretty simply: "If you talk to a farmer, they know how much a load of prime lambs or cattle are worth ... this hopefully sheds a light on what renewable energy assets could be worth to them." www.theland.com.au/story/9207267/ #AusAg #RenewableEnergy

What's that nugget of wisdom that you hold onto? Out on the road over the last few weeks, I put the question to livestock producers across the state's south, and heard some great advice passed down from family, friends and mentors. #AgSky #AusAg www.theland.com.au/story/9204841/

MEAA members at Australian Community Media (ACM) have endorsed a vote of no confidence in Antony Catalano, and welcome his forced leave of absence as Executive Chair of the Board following serious allegations of assault over the weekend. meaa.io/4lD3Z40

I couldn't find Nellie or Phoebe to see who had put these very lovely mixed cattle to sale but it's gotta be my fave sign up at Cooma today. #WeanerSales #AusAg #AgSky

Facebook callouts for the win! Young Lachlan Vallender was dobbed in by family and friends as a standout young farmer making waves in the Southern Tablelands, and with good reason. 🌿 Full story (and machinery vid) at the link below 🚜 www.theland.com.au/story/9195769 #AgSky #AusAg

Opponents have come out swinging against more paperwork, less action, after another review was announced. www.theland.com.au/story/9191703/ #AusAg #Biosecurity #AgSky

Big news in the carbon and ag space, with a new blueprint for "Healthy Country and Thriving Regions" released this week. All the deets, along with why the big supermarkets should pay up already, in the link! www.theland.com.au/story/9190150/ #AgSky #AusAg #CarbonFarming

Got cranky, wrote an op-ed about country women being the 'backbone' of communities, too often without the pay and assets to back it up. No representation without remuneration please and thank you! www.theland.com.au/story/9189716/ #AusAg #AgSky #WomenInAg

Reports are delayed, then left waiting for responses. On thorny issues, there can be long silence. News on "jobs for mates", gambling and a lack of response to parliamentary committee reports: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We talk a lot about women in ag, but how much has actually changed? Turns out, one dedicated researcher has sought to answer that very question, and it may not be as warm and fuzzy as you think... www.theland.com.au/story/9185396/ #AusAg #WomenInAg #AgSky

Consumers are un-mooved by the prospect of US beef hitting Aussie shelves, after a 'beef launch' organised by the US Embassy earlier this week. With some rather colourful comments shared online, it's fair to say Aussie are making their feelings 'herd' 🥩🐮 www.theland.com.au/story/9184472/ #AgSky

City friends, may I introduce one of my new favourite country events I've discovered: the Young Woman competition. You can hear from some of the twelve amazing finalists, and check out the bumper gallery below 👀 www.theland.com.au/story/9180311/

🌳 Tiny forest, big impact. 🌳 There are so many different ways landholders are boosting biodiversity and productivity outcomes on farm - the latest is inspired by a dense, multispecies, forestry system known as Miyawaki. www.theland.com.au/story/9175702/ #AusAg #TinyForests #TreePlanting

There are some new players in town, and they're determined to bring together producers and policy makers to put regen ag principles in focus. 👀🌳 www.theland.com.au/story/9174447/ #AusAg #RegenerativeFarming #AusPol #AgSky

September 2025 👉 February 2026 Super gratifying to see this 20ha plot at Tirranna, near Goulburn, go from in the ground, to seeds for the 2026 season. AJ Gibson and his family tested these faba beans to see if they'd work in the rotation, and they're back for 2026! 🫘 #AusAg #FabaBeans #AgSky

Under new firearms reform, primary producers would need to be members of a gun club, & meet attendance requirements. But if you or your staff are on a station, or the local range is for .22s, not .308s, there are some problems on the horizon. www.theland.com.au/story/9171951/ #NSWpol #gunreform

Democracy manifest: state politics has dominated a double spread for this week's print edition of The Land! #NSWPol #AusPol

🏫 NSW state parliament is back for 2026 🏫 Trying something new for The Land News today, with a parly preview before the day kicks off. Seven pollies shared their priorities, and there's more in common across party lines than you might think. 👀 #AusPol #AusAg www.theland.com.au/story/9166061/

The surprise from people when I explain I'm bound by my employer's editorial code, the Australian Press Council guidelines, and the MEAA code of ethics when they call with an issue. Real reporters, freelance, big time, or at the local paper, have a strong ethical framework - for a very good reason.

Preach girl, preach. As always, an incredibly insightful and important read from @miasato.bsky.social

First sale of the year, and a mercifully quick one at that for the Yass first-cross ewe sale. Prices were a little softer on last year, with the full report coming up this afternoon. #AusAg

Grief has been one word used by those on both sides of the proverbial fence near renewables projects. With some great insights from mental health professionals, I asked what it will take to find a productive way forward. www.theland.com.au/story/9137927 #AusAg #AgChatOz #AgSky

More than 4000 people have donated to a crowdfund campaign to test new gun laws in NSW, following the December 14 Bondi terror attack, raising nearly $500,000. www.theland.com.au/story/9146411/ #AusAg #AgSky #AgChatOz #GunReform

In a Christmas miracle, the ACM Agricultural Publications EA has been approved on Christmas Eve! 🎊 It includes 3.75% pay rise, backpaid to Jan 1, 2025, and comes into effect on New Year's Eve.🎇 A very festive solidarity celebration and a huge thanks to the House Committee and MEAA. #UnionStrong

Five years in charity comms and the amount of data on donors is astounding, and often on really old software (Blackbaud circa 2020 I'm looking at you!) It can be really helpful as a copywriter, but when donors realise just how the sausage is made, it doesn't always go down well.

GO PHEEEEBS 🧡

With victims fighting for their lives and many dead in the Bondi terrorist attack, misinformation online is exploiting their suffering. www.aap.com.au/factcheck/mi...

Most of the time it'd be considered trespassing, but when the drive home was right next to a harvest well underway near Canowindra, I couldn't help but head up the driveway and ask to take some pics with Fraser and Oliver Wythes. #AusAg #HarvestingTheCrop2025 #AgSky

Pinging @euanritchie.bsky.social and the #AgSky / Dingo researchers. Does anyone know any researchers who specialise in the spread of dingoes/wild dogs in Central West NSW? Speaking to some farmers about new populations popping up 👀

In the time it took for me to get back to Golspie, Amy Croker grew a whole human being! Lil' George was a very helpful model, for one of my favourite stories to write this year on why there are no atheists in foxholes... or farming. Read more 👉 www.theland.com.au/story/9121673 #AusAg #AgSky

🏘️'Tis the season for bush block stories 🎶 The annual bargain block list has arrived, with some genuinely decent spots on the market this year. Sadly, I did have to push the list up from $50k to $75k because, well, house prices 🤷‍♀️ www.theland.com.au/story/9126546/ #AusAg #AgSky #Housing

Actually cried listening to Millie Bernasconi with her national radio pkg on The Country Hour's 80th birthday, we are so lucky to have so many wonderful rural journos and even more folks in ag willing to share their stories. 🧡 HBD COUNTRY HOUR 🎉

Everybody say GOOD BOY MAXI because today Max not only didn't react to off leash dogs chasing him but he even cuddled with new people at the dog park. Old dogs can learn new tricks 🥹

BIIIIIG stretch spotted in a pic from the cutting room floor today. 📍Roseville, Mullion, Yass XB circuit sale #AusAg #AgSky

We all know that when a story's made the paper, it's finally real! 🗞️ This week's edition is a little special, a chance to share the very exciting news that I've been awarded the National Rural Press Club's Young Journalist of the Year for 2025. 🎊

The way 2025 is going, we're going to end up with an outbreak of kuru like in that X-Files episode. "While no one was watching: Tenuous status of CDC prion unit, risk of CWD to people worry scientists" www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...

#BREAKING - Dugald Saunders has quit as NSW Nationals Leader, after promising to modernise the party of the bush back in 2023. Full coverage coming later today 👇 www.theland.com.au/story/9113205

You know that gross sludge on the bottom of the water tank that makes your clothes smell whenever it rains? Just me? That sediment has been tested and uncovered alarmingly high levels of heavy metals in rainwater harvest drinking water tanks. www.theland.com.au/story/9111151/ #AgSky