The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Australia's sheep and goat industries have been given a January 2025 deadline for the mandatory implementation of electronic sheep tagging.

A senior policy advisor to the prime minister was once a campaigner for GetUp who called for an end to live animal exports and said mainstream farming was "inherently cruel".

Russia is targeting Ukrainian farmland, damaging unharvested grains and essential farming equipment. Farmers are increasingly expressing concern over their future livelihoods in the face of the seemingly never-ending war.

Farmers in the United States are urging their government to challenge a looming Mexican ban on genetically modified (GM) corn under a regional free trade agreement, warning of billions of dollars of economic damage to both countries.

The agricultural sector has one of the most powerful political lobbies in Brazil, and President Jair Bolsonaro enjoys strong support in the country’s main agricultural states. Many farmers have rallied behind Bolsonaro during his tenure, but will their support be enough to secure him a second term?

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Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country's strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further.

Balinese officials have not recorded a single case of the highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease since August 1. But on a recent trip to several parts of the island, the ABC found cattle with clear signs of FMD.