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'I drove 5 hours for a date': Single farmers find different ways to meet people

When the dating app radius won't reach the edge of your property, and you're harvesting grain from sun-up til sundown, how do you find a partner?

Take a peek

A shirt and singlet hanging next to each other in muted colour tones. Both look soft to touch.

'Something lovely' emerges from exciting Australian textile experiment

Scientists, farmers and the fashion industry collaborate to create a natural fabric that is both woven and knitted, low on emissions and set to shake up how we think about clothing.

What's the difference?

a man with blonde hair wearing a orange hi vis short stands in front of solar panels looking solemn

Owner switches off solar farm powering area twice the size of Tasmania

The owner of a huge solar farm in outback Queensland hits the kill switch after almost a decade, saying his contract with Ergon Energy was unfair.

The reason

a man in a dark jacket walks through a brown crop

Bayer announces Roundup alternative

We've been spraying it on our farms, gardens and roadsides for 50 years, but the world's most used weedkiller is starting to run out of steam.

How it works

A line of large green tractors with political signs protesting imports.

Tractor convoy unable to break Tasmanian potato pay stalemate

Tasmanian potato farmers have rejected a second pay offer from multinational processor Simplot that would see farmers paid less per kilo than last year.

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