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Chaos for fresh food exports as Middle East conflict disrupts transportation

The outbreak of fighting in the Middle East has left Australian businesses scrambling, with some products sitting in warehouses with nowhere to go.

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A blue bin holding ltos of orange mandarins. A hand is holding a mandarin in focus.

New cold storage facility to streamline supply chains for citrus growers

Oranges, mandarins, lemons and table grapes could soon have a more direct path to market.

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Toxic forever chemical threatens bees, food security, study finds

The study also found PFOS exposure in European honey bee colonies led to the birth of smaller young and threatened the viability of their hives, researchers say.

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White wine grapes on the vine.

Fraud charges against Sunraysia wine grapegrowers Littore brothers dropped

The Littore brothers have had their charges over allegedly conspiring to defraud Rabobank Australia of more than $19 million dropped in the County Court of Victoria.

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Do record-breaking rains mean the end of the drought?

Two years after farmers began feeling the impacts of what were then record dry conditions, many are celebrating what they say could be the end of the drought.

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Tassal salmon pens in Macquarie Harbour, southwest Tasmania.

Antibiotic licence for salmon farming revoked over 'unacceptable risk'

The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends an emergency licence for the antibiotic.

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