Firmus Technologies wants to use Tasmanian Irrigation water, which is primarily used for agricultural purposes, for its proposed data centre at Wesley Vale.

In only his second year of growing poppies Will Gibson at Native Point, Perth, has hit the jackpot with a quality paddock of the Eve variety that has produced the second highest reading of Oripavine in the midlands and south (zone 2), coming in less than a kilo per hectare behind a winning crop from Nick Mills at Panshanger Estate, Cressy.

Tasmania’s fruit, berry and seed crops are at risk if Varroa mite infiltrates the state, due to a reliance on feral honey bees for pollination.