04/04/2008 06:03AM
TOKYO, (Dow Jones)--Australia's Agriculture Minister Tony Burke Friday expressed hope for a successful outcome to ongoing free trade agreement talks between Australia and Japan. "I am optimistic about a win-win outcome" for the FTA talks, Burke said during a press conference at the Japan Press Club.
12/28/2007 07:36AM
For nearly a decade, agriculture Down Under – traditionally considered one of the country’s economic and social pillars – has survived various stints on life support.
In the mid-90s, a severe two-year drought triggered more than $630 million (AUS) in federal farm support. With the current drought
11/06/2006 07:27AM
CANBERRA (Dow Jones)--A drought across eastern and southern Australia has taken a distinct turn for the worse from August with a near total failure of late-winter to mid-spring rains, the government's Bureau of Meteorology reported late Friday.
In a historical record dating from 1900, the August-October