Agricultural Crops

Quandongs fetch high prices but overcoming inconsistent supply remains a challenge to growing a market. 

While cheap avocado prices might be good news for consumers at the check-out, farmers are battling oversupply but have their sights set on new markets. 

Farming and aid groups are warning the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could affect food supplies in Lebanon and Syria and push hundreds of thousands of people into long-term poverty.

Fresh produce goes to waste because it's too small, slightly yellow from sunburn or has tiny spots of leaf rub.

As households grapple with cost-of-living pressure, growers are warning tomato prices could rise after the discovery of a new tomato virus.

Tomato growers placed into quarantine after the discovery of the tomato brown rugose virus say authorities should have been better prepared for the arrival of the virus.

Farmers in Australia's largest wine grape growing region are still counting losses from severe frost last month and there is no help on the horizon.

Farmers around Australia are jumping on the AI bandwagon to boost production outputs and become more efficient. Experts say the technology has the potential to transform how we produce food and fibres.

One of Australia's remotest agricultural regions would almost double in size under an ambitious plan announced by the West Australian government.

An army of beneficial bugs is fighting the bad bugs that gnaw on your vegetables, protecting the borders of the largest greenhouse set-up in the southern hemisphere.

As crop growers across the country's south-east come to grips with the fallout from last month's unseasonally freezing overnight temperatures, there are calls for the event to be treated as a natural disaster in order to trigger urgent government assistance.

Riverina farmer Terry Walker was looking at the best canola crop he had ever grown until a brutal September frost changed his prospects completely.

Lupin is traditionally used to feed cattle in Australia but aged care facilities are now adding it to their residents' food. The nutritional results experienced in the program are being labelled as "remarkable".

With three SA tomato businesses, including a major supplier, forced into quarantine because of the outbreak of a crop virus, workers like Sharon Tarisesei have lost their jobs, and are apprehensive about securing future employment.

Some would say South Australia is too cold for the tropical agave plant, but one couple hopes to disprove that theory with the country's second-ever commercial agave planting.

Queensland’s Smart Farms program is trialling a solar-powered droid which weeds and seeds and could help growers reduce herbicide use.

With the Chinese economy slowing and authorities cracking down on "gratuitous" spending, Australia's export industries are being exposed and impacted in different ways.

Farmers in South Australia are concerned their produce is being affected by a series of sub-zero evening temperatures. 

Some South Australian farmers are reporting an 80 per cent loss in yield after frost devastated crops across the state, leaving paddocks "pretty much turning brown".

Many farmers are facing big losses this season, leaving some to consider whether to cut their crops for hay instead.