Penny Hooper, Tasmania’s sole Nuffield Scholarship recipient for 2026, plans to use her funds to study how to make livestock and dairy farming compatible with a sustainable work-life balance.

A future where dairy farmers no longer have to use high levels of nitrogen on their pastures could become a reality as a three-year research project by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) enters its final 12 months.

In decades past, it was quite common to see smoke rising from fuel reduction burns on private land during late winter, early spring, and late autumn.

The Tasmania State Emergency Service (SES) is calling on community-minded Tasmanians to step forward and volunteer, as part of its latest recruitment campaign.

Bitwise Agronomy founder Fiona Turner says she hopes her company becomes the “Google of the forecasting world” and helps every berry farmer increase their yield.

Once again, the Australian wool market moved forward on the back of low supply, outweighing concerns about the current lack of demand or maybe more of an optimistic feeling that demand will eventually catch up.

Tasmania’s first ever professional indoor bull ride has sold out within hours and a second show will now be held on October 3 at Launceston’s Silverdone.

Over the past three months Tasmania has witnessed an extraordinary display of political ruthlessness from Mr Nice Guy Jeremy Rockliff.

For nearly a decade there’s been little time for hands-on farming for politician and father of three, Gavin Pearce, but there’s been no shortage of contact with the local farming community.

Rain relief could be on the way for farmers in the Eastern half of Tasmania in spring, but it is not looking as promising for the rest of the state.