The scent of rain floods the yellowing countryside, quieting bleating sheep and sending kangaroos bolting for cover. Thick drops thud on the roof of Mountview Camp, a palatial two-bedroom canvas tent ...

Farms are important parts of the food and agriculture chain in the world. The largest farm in the entire world is larger than ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Imagine this fictitious scenario. The federal environment minister announces government approval for a large-scale ...

A new case of bird flu was found at a poultry farm in Victoria, Australia, following the discovery of the first human case of the virus in the country. The human case in Australia is the H5N1 strain, ...

On 2,000 hectares of grazing land near Uralla, in the Australian state of New South Wales, a mob of more than 6,000 merino and cross-breed sheep forage for six weeks at a time under the approximately ...

Meat processor JBS is channelling investment into its Huon Aquaculture salmon-farming business in Australia. The Brazil-headquartered company said it will plough A$110m ($73.6m) into Huon’s land-based ...

Frank Jotzo leads and has led research projects funded by a variety of funders. He is the economics director at the Sustainable Farms project at The Australian National University. David Lindenmayer ...

New research suggests Australia’s Indigenous communities have cultivated bananas for at least 2,000 years. The findings challenge the once-predominant view that these early humans were exclusively ...