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NSW Water Minister Rose Jackson has announced a water sharing plan for the Namoi Valley will be finalised by June 2024 with significant cuts to floodplain harvesting shares. Picture by Denis Howard 

The NSW Government has announced it will have a water sharing plan in place for the Namoi Valley by next June.

Government plans significant cuts to floodplain harvesting in the Namoi Valley

Daniel McCulloch and Michael Corcoran, both of LAWD Tamworth.

A lunch at NSW Parliament House was a great way for the NSW Farm Writers Association to end 2023.

Farm Writers sign off for 2023 in style

NSW Farmers water taskforce chair, Richard Bootle, has called on the state government to protect its citizens from the damage of water buybacks. Picture supplied.

The federal government's controversial Restoring Our Rivers Bill has NSW Farmers water taskforce chair, Richard Bootle, calling on the state government to protect its citizens from the damage of water buybacks.

Calls for NSW government to protect basin communities

McKay Ashdown, Staheli West, Brett Traves, Total Ag Solutions, Tony Sullens, MPH, Canowindra, and Richard McLeish, Total Ag Solutions. 

"I have been able to bale hay while everyone else in the area has had to pull up."

Quality and control a must for hay producers

Member for Murray Helen Dalton spoke out against the buybacks at the protest in Griffith, held at Griffith's Memorial Park on Tuesday.

Simultaneous rallies across the southern Riverina today drew thousands of people to protest proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan that would allow water
buybacks.

Thousands protest buybacks

A crowd of approximately 400 people gathered at Memorial Park, Griffith, top protest proposed water buybacks by the Albanese government. Pictures by Stephen Burns 

Water buybacks severely impacted Murray-Darling Basin communities in 2012 and people have hit the streets in the southern Riverina to protest changes to the MDBA plan which will allow another round of buybacks.

Water buyback protests underway

It is hoped a mRNA vaccine for foot and mouth will be ready by the end of 2024. File picture

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Work is well underway on mRNA vaccines for foot and mouth and lumpy skin diseases. While there is still extensive research to be completed, it is hoped a working disease will be ready by the end of 2024.

mRNA vaccine on track for the end of 2024

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The latest on eID, a camp for women in ag, and a call for a crime inquiry

NSW DPI Cowra perennial grain research project lead, Matthew Newell. Picture by Denis Howard.

NSW DPI Cowra research station is making the most of a 15-year project.

Dual purpose, many benefits

NSW Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, Yasmin Catley said there is no need for a parliamentary inquiry as police are already addressing the issues. Picture by Jonathon Carroll

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Calls for a parliamentary inquiry on rural crime have been ignored with the Minister for Police saying the issues are already being addressed.