Live updates from Muresk today.

On a foggy 5 degree morning, cars lined both sides of the four kilometre drive way into the Muresk Institute, 100 kilometres north-east of Perth, with placards similar to those driven through Perth two weeks ago. abc.net.au/news/rural/202…

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How China and Indonesia Cornered The Global Nickel Market

Tracy Alloway and I had a fascinating chat with BAC's Michael Widmer about how Chinese refiners worked with Indonesian miners to completely dominate a key commodity for EV batteries bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A sixth poultry farm in Victoria has tested positive to bird flu. This time it is a duck farm. 👇

interesting discussion about how the US food industry is thinking about a future full of appetite supressing drugs like ozempic from Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway

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'It is fair to criticize government bodies ... But we should reserve some of the blame for ourselves'

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more moonee ponds creek for more people!

🥛Coles dumps an award winning Victorian dairy processor from over 60 stores

🍷The wine industry wants money to pull out vineyards

🕵️Farmers speak of their fear of theft and vandalism at a farm crime forum.

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The FAO Dairy Price Index averaged 126.0 points in May, up 2.3 points (1.8 percent) from April, pushing the index value 4.3 points (3.5 percent) above its corresponding value a year ago. International price quotations for all the dairy products represented in the index rose in

World food prices rise for third straight month in May, UN says

The United Nations world food price index rose for a third consecutive month in May, as higher cereals and dairy product prices outweighed drops in prices for sugar and vegetable oils. Dairy prices increased 1.8% in

After around 18 months of drought, flooding rains could not be welcomed more warmly 😍 in the past week we've had more rain than what we had for the whole year last year 🙏

I tried to pull together a few thoughts from the week of milk price cuts.

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genuinely starting to believe a dingy and a pushie would meet 90% of my transport needs in Perth.

“Toodyay normally relies on rainwater but as the big dry drags on, regional towns are suffering”

I travelled to Toodyay for my first ever Saturday Special on WA’s big dry 🌾

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Bacon and egg roll with a long black. If only this moment could stretch into eternity