Whenever you see a loaf of bread, or a great piece of steak, you can not only thank an Australian farmer, but also consider the link to an Australian scientist who has provided expertise along the way.

Observers have been telling Australians for a while we are too reliant of China, and now that has been vindicated.

The cost of healthy food is a cost that everybody pays somehow. All Australians need to bear the load of a healthy environment, because without it, we won't have a clean, green brand to sell - and that is a job for more than just farmers.

With the government's performance on coal seam gas and coronavirus restrictions that are now in place, and with the Department of Planning's recommendations not far off, 12 weeks is clearly an unreasonable period for a decision to be made.

NSW Farmers is pushing to have the new koala SEPP de-coupled from rural use land.

Farmers have been working from home long before a virus forced everyone to.

Melinda Pavey's decision to enforce the pumping embargo with no concessions would have let more water downstream, hence the irony in the Greens' position.

When the government makes its decision later this year, it won't just be making a decision about whether to give the go ahead to a new mine, but also a decision about the future of agriculture on the Breeza Plain.

Government, telcos yet to fill in the 5G gaps for farms and country towns.

Do the deeper pockets of foreign-owned - and sometimes sovereign-backed - companies present a better prospect of paying dairy farmers a better price for their milk?