A cloud hangs over this year's wine vintage on Queensland's Granite Belt as winemakers wait to see if smoke from summer bushfires has tainted the grapes. Key points: Winemakers are hoping for one of their best vintages in a long time and are hopeful the bushfire smoke hasn't tainted their grapes They will know in several months if the wine …
Touting the benefits of free-range production is easy; happier animals, producing tastier bacon and eggs, are a simple sell. Queanbeyan High School in New South Wales, just outside Canberra, is trying to teach its agriculture students exactly that using an interesting mix of old and new teaching resources. Free-range pig farmer Peter MacPherson with one of his Wessex Saddleback piglets …
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