Abbey Halter

Swapping urban apartments for life in the outback working with livestock, these 20-year-old first-generation agriculture students have no regrets.

Cattle producers encourage others to open their gates to urban communities to see how life works on remote properties.

Working on a cattle station in one of the most remote parts of Australia, these backpackers say outback life is an opportunity that more young Australians should be taking up.

Scurrying down highways and chewing through machinery, rats are already running rampant in outback Queensland — and locals say numbers have already soared past last year's infestation.     

Prawns off Queensland's northern coast will be tasty and fresh in supermarkets this season, but fishermen are still reeling from Sea Swift's mothership suspension, forcing fuel and supply costs to rise.

Despite the sour political ties, beef trade tensions appear to be easing between Australia and China in 2024, as more export restrictions lift for Australian meat abattoirs.

Demand for seedless fruit is growing and the technology needed to create new varieties is improving rapidly, but some in the industry say "the price point just hasn't been there" to convince farmers to grow them.

Scientists have mapped the genome of sugar cane and the hope is that farmers will be able to grow the versatile crop to make biofuel.

There is new hope for graziers despite devastating pasture dieback, which costs graziers billions, spreading west to previously unaffected Queensland cattle country.

The hemp industry's 10-year vision to expand, study, and promote Australia's hemp production has attracted considerable funding but it has been unsuccessful in the latest round of the national Cooperative Research Centres grants.

As a parliamentary committee investigates supermarket prices, farmer groups are begging growers to share their stories. But, fearing potential retribution from retailers, few are speaking out.  

There are no traffic lights in this rural Queensland town and with just three stop signs and one main street, it's well off the beaten track. But to these young couples from different cities and continents, it has become home.

Securing a permanent doctor in the bush is a difficult task, and this doctor has just ended a rural town's six-year wait for a permanent hospital GP.

Bright yellow with blemish-free skin, bananas at major supermarkets tend to look "perfect", but will a push to sell produce affected by recent tropical cyclones in North Queensland shatter this widespread consumer ideology?

Some Australian producers turn their backs on the major supermarkets because of what they say are unfair prices at the farm gate.

Pacific Islander advocates say seasonal workers could be left vulnerable without government subsidies for both employees and farmers under changes to the PALM scheme.

Eating fresh fish and chips beside the sea is an Australian tradition. But dwindling supply and rising industry costs mean other meats are now being sold at many seafood shops.

Massive storms across Australia have left giant hailstones in people's backyards. Scientists hope you won't let them melt and will instead preserve the icy lumps for weather research.

Once the saviour of stranded sailors on the Great Barrier Reef, Percy Island's goats are facing eradication by officials. But advocates hope that promoting the heritage breed for food will help protect them.

A woman has been arrested after allegedly murdering her four-year-old child two years ago in North Queensland.

It's no secret that agriculture in Queensland is still dominated by men, but in the goat industry women are bucking the trend by doing the majority of animal husbandry with the smaller, "more loving" livestock.

Sid Godwin says back-burning may have prevented a bushfire on his property where he lost 10,000 hectares of grazing land.

Whatever your seafood preference, new commercial fishing regulations proposed for Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria mean your options could be limited this year.

Twelve-year-old mini-bull rider Ronan Miosge is one tough hombre. He has been bucked off mini bulls since he was eight and keeps coming back for more.

Already powering 27 per cent of the state's renewable energy grid, the Queensland sugar industry's research into improved crop yields for biofuel production using genetic selection beats out major rivals Brazil and India.