11:58 AM AEDT | More than 50 environment groups have delivered an urgent letter to the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, calling on him to reject advice to set a low 2020 target for the reduction of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, saying it would "represent a profound failure" by his Government.  | Fight climate change by ... | Forestry ousts farming under ...

11:54 AM AEDT | Up to 26 million hectares of agricultural land could become attractive for forestry under land-use changes promoted by carbon trading, an ABARE study has found.  | Fight climate change by ... | Burke backs soil carbon

12:14 PM AEDT | Canberra based CSIRO Plant Industry scientist, Dr Peter Dodds, has been named by the leading science journal Nature as one of five crop researchers who could change the world.  | New govt GM report 'valuable ... | Canola industry says GM will ...

3/12/2008 | Grain giants AWB Ltd and ABB have confirmed long running rumours of a merger plan to create what would be Australia’s largest wheat and barley exporter, with a huge geographical reach.

9:33 AM AEDT | THE NSW Opposition introduced legislation into parliament today that if passed would keep Hurlstone Agricultural High School at its existing size of 160 hectares.