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AWB shares divebomb after downgrade

4:08 PM AEDT | AWB shares have slumped more than 10 per cent since revising its profit forecast down to between $85 million and $110 million today. | Emerald deal to continue ... Visit Farm Weekly

| ASIC will not pursue AWB bribe ... Visit Stock Journal

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Beauty and the ’Bridge

3:03 PM AEDT | MURRAY Bridge’s central business district is leaving a bad impression on visitors and could do with a facelift, according to several businesses. | Wettest March on record for ... Visit Stock Journal

| Doubts rained on Rann's water deal Visit Stock Journal

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Downpours drive back drought figures

2:48 PM AEDT | Northern NSW continues to lead the drought recovery following the release yesterday morning of the best drought figures in four years. | New drought help waits on States Visit The Land

| Autumn break just what farmers ... Visit The Land

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Murray tsunami poised - and regulated

1:14 PM AEDT | THE Murray-Darling Basin is set to be flushed with thousands of gigalitres of water from the recent Queensland floods, the size of which means control of flows down the river system will be taken from NSW hands. |

Comments (1) | Climate doubt begins to grow in ... | 25% emissions cut at $4 a week ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...

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Doubts rained on Rann's water deal

12:41 PM AEDT | SOUTH Australian Premier Mike Rann yesterday claimed to have convinced Queensland and NSW to send a huge volume of water to his state but opposition leader Isobel Redmond accused him of a con job ahead of Saturday's election. |

Comments (2) | Rann claims underdog status Visit Stock Journal

| Flood of promises to secure water Visit Stock Journal

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$3.5m advance for solar plant

9:50 AM AEDT | THE new owners of failed energy company Solar Systems will receive a $3.5 million advance on promised Victorian government grants, in a bid to revive plans for one of the world's largest solar power plants. | Victoria's clean-coal gamble Visit Stock & Land

| State blasts Canberra over ... Visit Stock & Land

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Youth allowance win for rural students

9:42 AM AEDT | REFORMS to student income support payments are set to pass the Senate this week after the federal government and opposition finally brokered a deal that exempts rural students from tougher eligibility rules. | Dalwood tops parents' concerns Visit The Land

| Downpours drive back drought ... Visit The Land

| GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Floods threaten US Midwest

8:32 AM AEDT | MAJOR flooding has begun and is forecast to continue through spring in parts of the Midwest according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. | Rains help boost Tandou's ... | Can apricot kernels keep cancer ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tottenham ...

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Dalwood tops parents' concerns

8:24 AM AEDT | THE closure of the Dalwood Assessment Centre and Palm Avenue School has been a topic of great discussion at this week's Isolated Children's Parents' Association (ICPA) State conference in Balranald. | Keneally slammed on Dalwood ... Visit The Land

| Isolated children's parents ... Visit The Land

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Surfers prepare for monster swell as Cyclone Ului continues approach

7:35 AM AEDT | Lifesavers are urging caution after a high seas warning for Queensland which has the south-east's big wave surfers prepared for monster weekend swells. | Tropical Cyclone Ului on the ... Visit North Queensland Register

| NT drying up Visit North Queensland Register

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Record rainfall last month breaks drought at Broken Hill

7:21 AM AEDT | WHEN part of Silverton Road was washed away by the rains, Broken Hill residents were not about to complain too much. | Flooded red west turns blue and ... Visit The Land

| Woolies unswayed by local ... Visit The Land

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VB under attack from Tasmania

7:16 AM AEDT | FOSTER'S flagship beer, VB, does not have the vice-like grip on barbecues, parties and beer mats it enjoyed 20 years ago, and it has got some beverage analysts worried. | Foster's wine business fails to ... | Wine gives Foster's a headache | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...

Agribusiness and General - Finance

Victoria to benefit from floods

6:53 AM AEDT | VICTORIA is eyeing a massive water windfall from the Murray-Darling River system, with the state to benefit from recent floods in northern Australia. | 700km algal bloom chokes Murray Visit Stock & Land

| New Basin Plan could be a ... Visit Stock & Land

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Windmill accident kills farmer father and son

6:50 AM AEDT | A RURAL community is in mourning following the accidental death of a father and son in western Victoria. | Con artists target storm victims Visit Stock & Land

| Good food, good wine - good ... Visit Stock & Land

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Costello slams Abbott parent tax

6:41 AM AEDT | THE former treasurer Peter Costello has savaged Tony Abbott's paid parental leave policy as a ''silly'' idea that would reduce the global competitiveness of Australian business and which contravened the Liberal philosophy of low taxes. | Libs back Greens call for ... | PM missing in action, say ... | VIDEO: Turkey buys up Angus to ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Climate doubt begins to grow in Labor Party

16 Mar 10 | IT SEEMS not just the Opposition is home to climate sceptics, with the chairman of a Government committee investigating ways to help farmers adapt to climate change admitting he is unsure of the science surrounding global warming. |

Comments (17) | Pick an option, Brown tells Labor | Lower Balonne cleared for water ... | GALLERY: Photos from the floods in NSW's ...

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River boost for lower Murray

16 Mar 10 | MAJOR flows could reach the lower River Murray following a New South Wales Government decision to fill the massive Lake Menindee. | Time to tackle tax strategy Visit Stock Journal

| Wettest March on record for ... Visit Stock Journal

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US animal health merger would create global giant

16 Mar 10 | SANOFI-AVENTIS S.A. and Merck & Co. announced last week that sanofi-aventis has exercised its option to combine its Merial animal health business with Merck's Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health business, creating the global leader in animal health medicines. | Labor has secret tax agenda: ... | Doctors prescribe $350m rural ... | GALLERY: Photos from the Tumut Family ...

Agribusiness and General - Political

Basin authority to wade in

16 Mar 10 | THE recent Queensland rains will test how the Murray-Darling Basin Authority manages water as it prepares to take control of one of the system's largest water storage sites for the first time in seven years. |

Comments (1) | Wong embarks on new round of ... | Water trading rules clear as ... | VIDEO: Turkey buys up Angus to ...

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Joint venture wins first Ord River expansion contract

16 Mar 10 | The first major construction contract in the multi-million dollar Ord-East Kimberley Expansion Project has been won by a joint venture bid. | First major contract awarded ... Visit Farm Weekly

| CSIRO predicts a dry run into ... Visit Farm Weekly

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