9:47 AM AEST | Boulia Shire mayor Rick Britton, in north-west Queensland, says his northern community is celebrating 'the first major monsoon in 30 years'. The widespread, flooding rains will provide a huge boost to the previously drought-stricken cattle country.  | Wet New Year a cause for ... | Flooding rains in north-west ...

6/01/2009 | Australian family farmers and small businesses are being rolled by forces that have grown powerful in the absence of dissent, Barnaby Joyce believes.  | Farm runoff not to blame for ... | Food safety laws ignored

6/01/2009 | Australia's first grain-to-ethanol plant is up and running, generating huge interest as it seeks to meet most, if not all, its original strategic objectives.  | US ethanol industry woes deepen

5/01/2009 | Successful buyers at the Wodonga, Vic, weaner sales on Friday came from three states including Queensland and the ACT, indicating the depth of the strong interstate competition.

5/01/2009 | It is, says the seller, a rare opportunity. The seller happens to be the Victorian Government and, in this case, the pitch is not overblown.