Graincorp announces takeover offer for Ridley

Graincorp announces takeover offer for Ridley
16/05/2008 | Ridley Corporation has been placed in a trading halt as of 2.05pm, following today's announcement that GrainCorp intends to make an off-market takeover offer for all the used shares in Ridley.

NT mine offers hope for fertiliser price relief

NT mine offers hope for fertiliser price relief
16/05/2008 | An Australian mining company will produce an essential ingredient in fertiliser production that could soon help ease the pressure on local fertiliser supply and pricing.

Chance to stand down in a year as WA's ag minister

Chance to stand down in a year as WA's ag minister
16/05/2008 | WA's Agriculture Minister Kim Chance will leave politics in about a year.
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Mahindra Pik-up Ute Contest

Mahindra Pik-up Ute Contest

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SLIDESHOW: E-tags in the shed

E-tags in the shed
15/05/2008 | New electronic eartags are being put under a fierce test in a century-old woolshed in western Victoria where some 4000 stud sheep at Nareeb Narreb, Glenthompson, have been tagged with the new National Livestock Identification Scheme electronic tags.
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Fall under Enchanted’s spell

Fall under Enchanted’s spell
8/05/2008 | HERE is your chance to win a gun working dog! After the success of last year’s competition, Rural Press Ltd – publisher of Stock & Land – and the Casterton Kelpie Muster have teamed up again to offer you one of the finest young working dogs in the country, absolutely free!

$653m for water buybacks over next two years

13/05/2008 | The Federal Government has brought forward funding under the budget to boost environmental buyback spending to $170.1 million in 2008-09 and $482.7 million in 2009-10.
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Woman shot in hip during siege

10:55 AM AEST | A 44-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder following a five-hour siege at a house in Ellen Grove, on Brisbane's southside.
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  Swan says his kids influenced alcopops crackdown
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Digger wounded in Iraq

17/05/2008 | An Australian soldier has been wounded by a roadside bomb while on patrol near An Nasiriyah.
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Farmers can wear the cuts, but not the uncertainty

Farmers can wear the cuts, but not the uncertainty
15/05/2008 | As the dust settles on Labor's first budget, it's the lack of detail, not the funding cuts, which should have farmers upset.
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