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RBT CEO Elizabeth Skirving, Tas Ag Productivity Group EO Terry Brient and RBT Chair Michal Frydrych

Rural Business Tasmania wins prestigious agricultural award

Rural Business Tasmania has been recognised with the Tasmanian Agriculture Productivity Group Annual Award for Excellence in Agriculture - Service to the Agricultural Industry, celebrating the organisation’s longstanding contribution to supporting farming families, small businesses and regional communities across Tasmania.

Boris the kelpie still a winner in Lachie's eyes

After a gruelling 21-day competition that saw working dogs battle it out on farms across Australia, the winner of the 2025 Cobber Challenge has officially been crowned.

Lachie Groves and Boris

Fishing - Open season for crayfish catching

The Tasmanian rock lobster (crayfish) season for waters outside the East Coast stock rebuilding zone opened to fishing on November 1.

Jeremiah Perkins with a solid Rainbow Trout he landed at Toom's Lake last week.

Plenty to celebrate for Derwent Valley cider brewers

Adam and Grace D'Arcy, the owners of Plenty Cider in the Derwent Valley, are celebrating after their locally made Apple and Blueberry Cider took home a gold medal at the recent 2025 Australian Cider Awards.

Plenty Cider has taken home multiple trophies in the Australian Cider Awards

King Island Mayor says new BOM website is 'an absolute joke', calls for those responsible to be fired

The new website has drawn widespread criticism for being confusing, unreliable, and poorly timed.

King Island Mayor Marcus Blackie

Austerity budget? Tell him he's dreaming.

Brad Stansfield previews Thursday's "interim" State budget.

The Castle

TasFarmers Matters - State budget must focus on red tape and reform

The state budget announced in May was undoubtedly a trigger for the no-confidence vote that led us to an early election.

Nathan Calman

Failures in salmon mass mortality event response outlined in report

Tasmania’s aquaculture industry had no plan in place when a salmon mass mortality event took place earlier this year and delayed providing information to regulators while chunks of fish were washing up on Southern beaches, a new report has confirmed.

Multiple salmon pens at Storm Bay

Appointment aiming to boost biosecurity efforts

The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) and the TAS Farm Innovation Hub are strengthening biosecurity efforts as part of an enhanced plan to protect Tasmanian farmers.

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture and TAS Farm Innovation Hub Biosecurity Engagement Lead Craig Elliot

Bicheno Beams took out the Festivals and Event section of Tasmania’s annual Tourism Awards

Region's top tourism attractions gain gongs

LOCAL tourism and hospitality leaders have been recognised at Tasmania’s annual Tourism Awards.

Rob O'Connor

Good as gold for Rob O'Connor's Benham canola oil

To Rob O’Connor it’s “just canola” – but the bright yellow fields at Benham literally stop traffic near Avoca in the Fingal Valley.

Pearce wants biosecurity to be 'second nature' to farmers

Any Tasmanian who thinks Avian Bird Flu won’t reach our island needs to think again, according to Primary Industries and Water Minister Gavin Pearce.

Gavin Pearce