Choosing how to change

Posted: 11/12/2008 | Are the forces reshaping the world going to reshape agriculture? And if the answer is yes, is agriculture going to do the changing, or will change be done to it? |

Comments (3)

The 'roo needs revision

Posted: 26/11/2008 | If we're serious about roo farming, we'll need to start with a breeding program and kangaroo EBVs for marbling and tenderness. |

Comments (13)

On wool and warfare

Posted: 21/11/2008 | AWI's new board can only succeed in old battles by fighting in new ways. |

Comments (8)

Conservation cows out to change ag's image

Posted: 13/11/2008 | Cattle are getting a bad rap these days, so it's refreshing to see Britain's venerable National Trust getting into the business of "conservation cows". |

Comments (2)

Carbon: the next big farm commodity?

Posted: 7/11/2008 | Carbon trading isn't going to go away. That's not necessarily a bad thing for agriculture. |

Comments (8)

Telstra gets competitive on wireless

Posted: 22/10/2008 | Telstra's wireless broadband pricing is at last starting to look attractive. But too little, too late? |

Comments (4)

What Garrett can learn from NSW

Posted: 17/10/2008 | Poorly considered State native vegetation acts damaged the movement toward agricultural land stewardship. Peter Garrett's proposal to extend the national conservation estate risks further alienating farmers from the conservation movement. |

Comments (8)

Reinventing rural

Posted: 3/10/2008 | When you live in the space that's undertaking the activities most fundamental to human and planetary wellbeing, it should be an exciting place to be. Shouldn't it? |

Comments (7)

Agri-culture and agri-business

Posted: 24/09/2008 | Between agri-business and agri-culture lies the perfect farm sector. |

Comments (4)

History haunts Europe's future

Posted: 11/09/2008 | Agriculture is an international business, and I'm in Europe to find out exactly what's happening in a culture trapped between its history and the modern economy. |

Comments (1)

One in, all in: cities and carbon

Posted: 29/07/2008 | Where's the talk of smartening up our sprawling, inefficient, polluting urban areas? |

Comments (2)

Nice network, Telstra. Shame about the price.

Posted: 28/07/2008 | Telstra's pricing stands in the way of widespread broadband data usage in the bush. |

Comments (4)

Swindled by "Swindle"?

Posted: 24/07/2008 | Are we having a meaningful discussion on climate change, or merely repeating the age-hold human habit of forming tribes that focus on separateness, not what humanity has in common? |

Comments (5)

Topless girls and guerilla PR

Posted: 21/07/2008 | PETA is the PR equivalent of a terrorist insurgency. It has its own morality, its own shapely version of suicide bombers, and it relies on the element of surprise. |

Comments (8)

Qualifying climate change

Posted: 10/07/2008 | In the introduction to the CSIRO-BoM assessment of how future climate will drive future droughts is a run of qualifications that show all is not yet done and dusted in the world of climate change research. |

Comments (2)