Yellow crazy ants - sent packing from NSW

Yellow crazy ants - a highly invasive exotic pest that can build super colonies and devastate local fauna - have been eradicated from NSW, Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald said today.

State's top farming excellence award finalists announced

A pork and saltbush lamb producing couple from Temora, a mixed livestock and grazing property manager from Holbrook and a wrinkle free merino breeder from Yeoval have been named the finalists in this year’s NSW Farmer of the Year award.

Lismore sale prompts warning to beef producers buying dairy cattle

A north coast beef property has been placed in quarantine and two others are under investigation after their owners recently purchased cattle from a Lismore-district dairy herd infected with bovine Johnes disease (BJD).