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Wool

Wool market on an upward trajectory

After a week off for the Easter Recess the wool market resumed its upwards trajectory in a very solid fashion.

Fuel recovery cost order welcomed by key Tasmanian figures

A ruling aimed at easing cost pressures for transport operators has been welcomed in Tasmania.

Geoff Page

TasFarmers Matters - Local effect of Trump's war

It’s easy to think of geopolitics as something distant and played out in faraway capitals, disconnected from paddocks in the Midlands or dairy sheds in the North West.

Jet fighters

Tasmanian poppy harvest for Extractas Bioscience one to forget

The latest poppy harvest is “significantly down” from previous years.

Poppies

Guy Barnett to head up fuel and fertiliser delegation

A Tasmanian delegation is heading to Singapore and Indonesia to strengthen the state’s fuel security and fertiliser supply, and to promote key Tasmanian exports, as a new report highlights that the global fertiliser market faces a prolonged period of tight supply, weak affordability and heightened price risk.

Guy Barnett

Honey Bee Festival buzzing for a third year

The Derwent Valley Beekeepers Association hosted the Derwent Valley Honey Bee Festival on the Esplanade in New Norfolk on Sunday.

Honey Bee Festival

Nutrien Ag Solutions

Fly Derwent develops flying ferry

Tasmanian company "Fly Derwent" in partnership with New Zealand-based company Vessev have announced plans to launch Australia's first electric hydrofoil Catamaran network and service set to run from Hobart to New Norfolk on the Derwent River.

electric hydrofoil Catamaran

Kate Bucknell announced as new Rural Youth CEO

She has previously served as the Business & Partnerships Manager at JCP Youth and as the inaugural General Manager of Hotel Verge Launceston.

Kate Bucknell

Orford and Triabunna to enter stage three water restrictions

Stage three water restrictions have been enacted at Orford and Triabunna.

Water restrictions

Zucchinis

A harvest season of challenges for vegetable growers

TasFarmers Vegetable Council chairman Nathan Richardson said he expects an average harvest for producers tonnage-wise.

CloudAg broccolini manager Mark Waasdorp in a field of broccolini.

It's a broccolini bonanza

It's the relatively new broc on the block - and it's in high demand.

Rewards paid to firearms tipsters and Frankford men charged with multiple offences

Guns, ammunition and cannabis have been seized from a rural property at Frankford.

Crime Stoppers Tasmania chair David Daniels and Inspector Troy Morrisby.