The male Aedes aegypti mosquito. IN an international partnership between CSIRO, Verily and James Cook University, scientists used specialised technology to release millions of sterilised male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes across the Cassowary Coast in Queensland in a bid to combat the global pest. CSIRO Director of Health and Biosecurity Dr Rob Grenfell said the results were a major win …. more
THE European Union’s top court has ruled that the new Genetic Manipulation (GM) techniques dubbed CRISPR must be assessed, regulated and licensed, the same as the old transgenic GM techniques were.* Countries that export primary products into the EU may be obliged to follow suit or be excluded from valuable markets. “This precautionary approach starkly contrasts …. more
DAIRY farmers will be better able to understand and interpret commodity market price signals following the launch of the new Milk Price Index. Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources David Littleproud said the index would provide farmers another source of dairy market information. “Farmers will be able to see an index of commodity prices received by …. more
QUEENSLAND sugarcane growers will be able to show big sugar buyers how sustainably their product was grown thanks to a cutting edge project funded by the Coalition Government. The Sustainable Sugar Project aims to use encrypted data, called blockchain, to clearly show sugar buyers where the sugarcane came from and the sustainability of that farm. …. more
The bar charts shows how much of the product was grown by Australian farmers. AUSTRALIANS have the chance to choose Aussie produce with new Country of Origin Labelling laws coming into force tomorrow, July 1. Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources David Littleproud said the new labels will let Aussies vote with their wallets and …. more
FOOD Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) have called for submissions on an application to include food from genetically modified safflower lines in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ Chief Executive Officer Mark Booth said the two lines had been genetically modified to produce very high levels of oleic acid and lower levels of linoleic acid in …. more