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A bumper avocado season is creating a perfect storm for cheaper produce and record export volumes, but growers are doing it tough.

A 2.5-year trial of an electric truck in SA's forestry industry has concluded with the truck now parked, finding it was able to do the job but wasn't cost effective, even with high fuel prices.

Grain paddocks in Western Australia are filled with thousands of mice, which are making their way into residential areas.

A conservation group's plans to replant species from the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest on land used for growing sugar have not won everybody over.

Australia's largest wild-caught prawn operation is to close its doors after 60 years in business, impacting hundreds of workers and devastating a Queensland community.

Consumers cannot expect to find cheaper chocolate on supermarket shelves this Easter despite a major drop in the world cocoa price, industry experts say.