Agriculture in Australia, the Glossary

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1. 148 relations: ABC News (Australia), Aberdeen Angus, Aboriginal Australians, Adelaide Hills, Agricultural technology, Algae, All-terrain vehicle, Anna Creek Station, Apple, Arbequina, Artificial insemination, Auction, Australia, Australian Agricultural Company, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian dollar, Australian meat substitution scandal, Australian Taxation Office, Banana, Barkly Tableland, Barley, BBC News, Brazil, Canning, Carrot, Cattle, Cattle station, Cereal, Chickpea, China, Climate change, Climate change in Australia, COVID-19 pandemic, CSIRO, Dairy, Department of Agriculture (Australia, 1974–75), Department of Agriculture (Australia, 2013–2015), Department of Agriculture (Australia, 2019–20), Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia), Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia, 1998–2013), Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Department of Commerce and Agriculture, Department of Primary Industries and Energy, Department of Primary Industry (1956–1974), Department of Primary Industry (1975–1987), Department of Trade and Customs, Dryland farming, Embryo transfer, ... Expand index (98 more) »

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Aberdeen Angus

The Aberdeen Angus, sometimes simply Angus, is a Scottish breed of small beef cattle.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Adelaide Hills

The Adelaide Hills region is located in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges east of the city of Adelaide in the state of South Australia.

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Agricultural technology

Agricultural technology or agrotechnology (abbreviated agtech, agritech, AgriTech, or agrotech) is the use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture with the aim of improving yield, efficiency, and profitability.

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Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a light utility vehicle (LUV), a quad bike or quad (if it has four wheels), as defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), is a vehicle that travels on low-pressure tires, has a seat that is straddled by the operator, and has handlebars.

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Anna Creek Station

Anna Creek Station is the world's largest working cattle station.

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Apple

An apple is a round, edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus spp.'', among them the domestic or orchard apple; Malus domestica).

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Arbequina

Arbequina is a cultivar of olives.

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Artificial insemination

Artificial insemination is the deliberate introduction of sperm into a female's cervix or uterine cavity for the purpose of achieving a pregnancy through in vivo fertilization by means other than sexual intercourse.

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Auction

An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Agricultural Company

The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is a public-listed Australian company that, as of 2018, owns and operates feedlots and farms covering around of land in Queensland and the Northern Territory, roughly one percent of Australia's land mass.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, environmental, and social issues to advise the Australian Government.

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Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD; also abbreviated A$ or sometimes AU$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; and also referred to as the dollar or Aussie dollar) is the official currency and legal tender of Australia, including all of its external territories, and three independent sovereign Pacific Island states: Kiribati, Nauru, and Tuvalu.

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Australian meat substitution scandal

The Australian meat substitution scandal of 1981 involved the widespread substitution of horse meat and kangaroo meat for beef in Australia.

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Australian Taxation Office

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian Government.

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Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Barkly Tableland

The Barkly Tableland is a region in the Central East if the Northern Territory, extending into Western Queensland.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Canning

Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans).

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Carrot

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though heirloom variants including purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and Southwestern Asia.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Cattle station

In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm (station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle.

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Cereal

A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain.

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Chickpea

The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

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Climate change in Australia

Climate change has been a critical issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research.

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Dairy

A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold.

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Department of Agriculture (Australia, 1974–75)

The Department of Agriculture was an Australian government department that existed between June 1974 and December 1975.

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Department of Agriculture (Australia, 2013–2015)

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture was a federal government department charged with the responsibility to develop and implement policies and programs that ensure Australia's agricultural, fisheries, food and forestry industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable.

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Department of Agriculture (Australia, 2019–20)

The Australian Department of Agriculture was an Australian Government department in existence between May 2019 and February 2020, which was responsible for developing and implementing policies and programmes that contribute to strengthening Australia's primary industries, delivering better returns for primary producers at the farm gate, protecting Australia from animal and plant pests and diseases, and improving the health of Australia's rivers and freshwater ecosystems.

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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

The Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources was a government department that existed between 2015 and 2019, which was responsible for developing and implementing policies and programs that contribute to strengthening Australia's primary industries, delivering better returns for primary producers at the farm gate, protecting Australia from animal and plant pests and diseases, and improving the health of Australia's rivers and freshwater ecosystems.

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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) is an Australian government department that was created on 1 July 2022, as part of the previous Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.

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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia, 1998–2013)

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) was an Australian government department that existed between 1998 and 2013, when it was renamed as the Department of Agriculture.

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Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment

The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) was an Australian Government department which operated from 1 February 2020 until 30 June 2022.

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Department of Commerce and Agriculture

The Department of Commerce and Agriculture was an Australian government department that existed between December 1942 and January 1956.

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Department of Primary Industries and Energy

The Department of Primary Industries and Energy was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and October 1998.

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Department of Primary Industry (1956–1974)

The Department of Primary Industry was an Australian government department that existed between January 1956 and June 1974.

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Department of Primary Industry (1975–1987)

The Department of Primary Industry was an Australian government department that existed between December 1975 and July 1987.

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Department of Trade and Customs

The Department of Trade and Customs was an Australian government department that existed between 1901 and 1956.

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Dryland farming

Dryland farming and dry farming encompass specific agricultural techniques for the non-irrigated cultivation of crops.

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Embryo transfer

Embryo transfer refers to a step in the process of assisted reproduction in which embryos are placed into the uterus of a female with the intent to establish a pregnancy.

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Enotourism

Enotourism, oenotourism, wine tourism, or vinitourism refers to tourism whose purpose is or includes the tasting, consumption or purchase of wine, often at or near the source.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Farm Weekly

Farm Weekly is a newspaper published by Australian Community Media.

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Federation of Australia

The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Fodder

Fodder, also called provender, is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, rabbits, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.

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Frantoio

Frantoio and Leccino cultivars are the principal raw material for Italian olive oils from Tuscany.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Gardening in Australia

Gardening in Australia reflects the different styles of Australian art, including influences from Roman, Islamic, Italian, French, and English gardens.

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Goyder's Line

Goyder's Line is a line that runs roughly east–west across South Australia and, in effect, joins places with an average annual rainfall of.

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Grain

A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.

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Grape

A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greenhouse gas emissions by Australia

Greenhouse gas emissions by Australia totalled 533 million tonnes -equivalent based on greenhouse gas national inventory report data for 2019; representing per capita e emissions of 21 tons, three times the global average.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England.

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History of wheat industry regulation in Australia

The wheat industry of Australia has been organised by government regulation, by both the Commonwealth Government and state governments.

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Hojiblanca

Hojiblanca (literally translated, "white leaf" in Spanish) is an olive cultivar from Lucena (Spain).

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Hunter-gatherer

A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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Irrigation in Australia

Irrigation is a widespread practice required in many areas of Australia, the driest inhabited continent, to supplement low rainfall with water from other sources to assist in growing crops and pasture.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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John Kerin

John Charles Kerin (21 November 1937 – 29 March 2023) was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993.

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Kalamata

Kalamata (Καλαμάτα) is the second most populous city of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece after Patras, and the largest city of the homonymous administrative region.

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Kangaroo

Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Koroneiki

The Koroneiki (Κορωνέικη) is an olive cultivar from Greece primarily used in olive oil production.

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Lamb and mutton

Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.

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Landline (TV series)

Landline is an Australian national rural issues television program broadcast on ABC Television since 1991.

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Leccino

The Leccino olive is one of the primary olive cultivars used in the production of Italian olive oil.

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Legume

Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.

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Lentil

The lentil (Vicia lens or Lens culinaris) is an edible legume.

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List of olive cultivars

There are hundreds of cultivars of the olive (Olea europaea).

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Lowy Institute

The Lowy Institute is an independent think tank founded in April 2003 by Frank Lowy to conduct original, policy-relevant research regarding international political, strategic and economic issues from an Australian perspective.

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Lupin bean

Lupin are the yellow legume seeds of the genus Lupinus.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Meat industry

The meat industry are the people and companies engaged in modern industrialized livestock agriculture for the production, packing, preservation and marketing of meat (in contrast to dairy products, wool, etc.). In economics, the meat industry is a fusion of primary (agriculture) and secondary (industry) activity and hard to characterize strictly in terms of either one alone.

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Melon

A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet, edible, and fleshy fruit.

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Merino

The Merino is a breed or group of breeds of domestic sheep, characterised by very fine soft wool.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Moreton Bay

Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland.

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Mulesing

Mulesing (also known as 'live lamb cutting') is the removal of strips of wool-bearing skin from around the breech (buttocks) of a sheep to prevent the parasitic infection flystrike (myiasis).

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Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.

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The Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) is the principal government agency in charge of managing the Murray–Darling Basin in an integrated and sustainable manner.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North Australian Pastoral Company

The North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCO) is a large, privately owned, Australian cattle company which operates 14 cattle stations (as well as the Wainui farm and feedlot) covering over 60,000 km2, managing around 200,000 cattle, throughout Queensland and the Northern Territory.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.

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Oat

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).

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Onion

An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Organic farming

Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.

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Pat Rowley

Patrick Desmond Rowley CMG (born 23 September 1935) is an Australian agricultural leader.

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Pea

Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an American animal rights nonprofit organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

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Picholine

The Picholine is a French cultivar of olives.

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Picual

The Picual, also known as Marteña or Lopereña, is an olive cultivar from Spain.

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Pip Courtney

Philippa Jane "Pip" Courtney is an Australian journalist and television presenter.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers.

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Primary production

In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.

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Protectionism

Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Rapeseed

Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of erucic acid.

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Refrigeration

Refrigeration is any of various types of cooling of a space, substance, or system to lower and/or maintain its temperature below the ambient one (while the removed heat is ejected to a place of higher temperature).

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Rice

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa.

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Seaweed farming

Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Soil fertility

Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.

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Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor, commonly called sorghum and also known as great millet, broomcorn, guinea corn, durra, imphee, jowar, or milo, is a species in the grass genus Sorghum cultivated for its grain.

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South Australia

South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Sowing

Sowing is the process of planting seeds.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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St Helena Island National Park

St Helena Island is a heritage-listed island in Moreton Bay, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.

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Tangerine

The tangerine is a type of citrus fruit that is orange in color, that is considered either a variety of Citrus reticulata, the mandarin orange, or a closely related species, under the name Citrus tangerina, or yet as a hybrid (Citrus × tangerina) of mandarin orange varieties, with some pomelo contribution.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Tillage

Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning.

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Tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

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Top End

The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which aside from the Cape York Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Australian continent.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.

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Vegetable oil

Vegetable oils, or vegetable fats, are oils extracted from seeds or from other parts of edible plants.

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Vicia faba

Vicia faba, commonly known as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae.

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Victoria River (Northern Territory)

The Victoria River is a river in the bioregion of Victoria Bonaparte in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Watermelon

Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.

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Wheatbelt (Australia)

Australian wheatbelts comprise inland agricultural regions across southern and eastern Australia.

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Wool

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other mammals, especially goats, rabbits, and camelids.

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Zebu

The zebu (Bos indicus), sometimes known in the plural as indicine cattle, Camel cow or humped cattle, is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in South Asia.

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2019–20 Australian bushfire season

The 201920 Australian bushfire season, or Black Summer, was one of the most intense and catastrophic fire seasons on record in Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Australia

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