Ian Crafter painted a tree on his property blue, joining in the Blue Tree Project.

Many of our rural and regional areas struggle to sustain the populations they need to maintain businesses and services.

Very well placed sources say that the Prime Minister will announce two dams for the New England on the weekend.

African Swine Fever has swept rapidly across Europe and Asia, and the recent detection in East Timor has the disease less than 700km from the Australian border.

So many rural properties now listed for sale are today aggregations of several farms which, a generation or two ago, would have sustained multiple families.

The federal government needs to step up its drought support, for the sake of rural communities.

Luxury industries like wool are under more pressure than ever before to prove their sustainable credentials

In the short term, reduced US tariffs, our lower supply and our strong domestic prices, will make it hard to maintain market share in Japan.

Investment in our regional communities is desperately needed to reach productivity goals.

Drought is not the only big thing happening in Australia's red meat sector.