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ICYMI: This is what a $160k bull looks like: Riverina Hereford sets Australian sale record 🐮🐮ab.co/2ZQpYv8 #ausag
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Rambo the rogue ram in WA has been caught after four years on the run! 🐑 A team of farmers captured the sheep and introduced him to a pair of clippers. ab.co/3aLVtwW #WA
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How good are these dogs! Jillaroos, jackaroos and their pups undergo specialised TAFE training for future farmers and their work dogs🐶🐶ab.co/3qNcZpX @LucyThack @tafensw
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Rural populations 'over-represented' in drowning statistics, tailored strategies needed in the bush ab.co/3ukFygG @prosserdaniel1
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🐃 These guys are loving the rain! Did you know water buffalo use mud as a natural fly repellent? They also use it as sunscreen. 🧴 📍@ Eungai Creek Buffalo Farm
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Australian vintage headers power on thanks to a young Victorian farmer ab.co/3puUvZS 🚜
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Grasshoppers ravage pastures in western Queensland, with graziers left searching for answers ab.co/3ub5rzg @McCosker_Maddie
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The Country Hour is celebrating its 75th birthday this week 🎉 and you can listen back to great yarns from across Australia on the ABC Listen app or here: abc.net.au/radio/programs/yo… #ABCRural75
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Australian Community Media staff have been told via email that the company is suspending printing operations in multiple regions. Lay-offs in country newspapers are expected to follow. READ MORE: ab.co/2V7kVF8
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Remote communities on cattle stations and in remote communities in the NT are worried about the impact of #coronavirus panic buying on their food supplies. READ MORE: ab.co/2ygoboP
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Agriculture and seafood exporters say signs of economic recovery in Asia mean little when they can't get their product on planes. READ MORE: ab.co/2wLn4ge
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#Coronavirus is expected to force hundreds of thousands of Australians out of work, and farmers are already being inundated with enquiries from the unemployed. Read more: ab.co/2UpZyOQ
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POST-FIRE LOGGING: It will be tragedy piled on tragedy if, after a horror fire season, we don't dismiss the argument that it's either reasonable or practical to deal with our highly flammable bush by just "locking up and leaving it", writes Ross Hampton ab.co/2TeRXRE
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Sex, politics, and religion are traditionally avoided in conversation, but in Queensland there's the emergence of 'rain guilt' — where you got some but your neighbours missed out. READ MORE: ab.co/2vQj9Ox
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