Hundreds of potato producers rallied at Deloraine today in protest against Simplot’s price offer to spud growers.

A Marrawah family business has been bestowed the honour of Tasmania’s emerging exporter of the year.

Potato growers from around the state will convoy in tractors, trucks and other machinery to Deloraine tomorrow to protest the reduction in price offered by processor Simplot.

THE genomic testing of dairy bulls has increased six-fold in the past decade, giving farmers more genetics tailored for the Australian systems than ever before.

There has been much written over the past few years about the out-of-control rabbit populations across the state.

Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Tasmania organiser Mick Wickham said it was embarrassing that Fonterra recorded a $1.5 million AUD profit during the last financial year but paid maintenance workers at its Wynyard and Spreyton almost a quarter less than their interstate counterparts.

Askin Morrison was one of Tasmanian’s oldest colonists who perhaps did more than any other man to advance the commercial interests of early Tasmania.

When Curringa Farm at Hamilton first began welcoming guests to its cottages on the 300ha property in 1984, it was a novel concept.

The new hit album is called Australian Made, but the Wolfe brothers, Tom and Nick, reckon what makes them even luckier is living being able to keep their feet firmly on the ground in Tasmania.

Campbell Town District High School is celebrating its first overall win in the Tasmanian Merino Wether Challenge.