Nominations are open for the 2025 Cobber Challenge Cobber and the call is out for Australia’s toughest, stock-chasing, hard-running working dogs to battle it out for the title of the hardest working dog.

THE olive harvest has begun in Tasmania, where the industry is described by its peak body as “small but well-established”.

THE Federal Government’s plan to tax unrealised gains in superannuation, particularly targeting farmers, is likely to have far-reaching impacts and unintended consequences.

Causeway duplication project still awaiting Federal Government environmental approval.

A meeting of innovative minds at the Truffles of Tasmania stand at Agfest has led to a spectacular drone demonstration at the truffle farm at Needles.

Brad Stansfield's latest column on the state of Tasmanian politics.

ONCE again, the Australian wool market ground higher last week as buyers struggled to find enough quantity to complete orders.

WHILE farmers have welcomed recent rainfall across the state, many are still anxious about the dry conditions that have lingered for more than a year.

“Abysmal” is how the peak health union has described the state of health services in rural and regional Tasmania.

DEB Delaney’s work could prove vital for understanding the future of the island’s marine plant fishery in the face of environmental change and shifting global markets.