The Australian grains industry is better protected from exotic pests and diseases with the recent development of a National Grain Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy. (more…)
Tag: biosecurity
New tools to help your seasonal workers be biosecurity aware
Transient workers are a crucial part of the workforce for many farm businesses, but bringing workers onto your farm – from overseas or other parts of your state or Australia – who move around the country in search of work may also bring diseases, pests and weed seeds with them. (more…)
Boundary fence grants
Funding is available to help bushfire-hit farmers rebuild boundary fencing bordering public lands in New South Wales. (more…)
A new perspective on biosecurity gate signs
Bushfires affected thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Australia this summer, burning homes, crops, standing and stored animal feed supplies, fences, yards, sheds and machinery. (more…)
Have you spotted the parallels?
Epidemic, incursion, outbreak: call it what you like, you should take note of what’s happening in Australia in response to COVID-19, because a crop or livestock pest or disease outbreak would play out quite similarly. (more…)
Researchers test their real time eDNA detection kits in Thailand
The ornamental fish trade in Australia has an estimated value of about $350 million, with 12 to 14 million fish imported each year. While this trade is great for the economy it can also be a significant biosecurity risk if exotic fishes were to be purposely released into our river systems. (more…)