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            <title>Have your say: Rocky Reef Fin Fish Fishery </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Stakeholders are encouraged to attend public meetings to discuss proposals for managing Queensland's Rocky Reef Fin Fish Fishery, which include key species such as snapper and pearl perch.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Ascochyta outbreak in Highlands chickpeas</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There is another confirmed outbreak of Ascochyta blight (AB) in a Central Queensland chickpea crop located south of Emerald on the Central Highlands.]]></description>
            
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            <title>New JCU scholarship on offer to marine science student</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries will offer an annual $5,000 Marine Fish Habitat honours scholarship to a James Cook University (JCU) student, it was announced today.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Public reporting of Asian honey bees crucial</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Public reporting of Asian honey bees has become more crucial since the battleground has expanded into the suburbs of Cairns.]]></description>
            
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            <title>NVT lines set to boost growers' grain yields</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[National varietal trial (NVT) coordinators will include four winter cereal evaluation sites in Central Queensland next year that will compare yield performance using early and conventional sowing times.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Demonstrating recovery of pasture productivity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[First results from current pasture recovery trials in South West Queensland will be available to producers at a Bollon field day in early 2009. ]]></description>
            
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            <title>Field crop paddock walks October 7-8</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Leading Western Downs field crop research will be showcased next month with paddock walks in the Roma and St George areas. ]]></description>
            
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            <title>Time to check stored grains chemicals  </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the winter cereal harvest approaches, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&amp;F) inspectors are reminding producers about the correct use of chemicals in stored grains. ]]></description>
            
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            <title>War against weeds goes underground with DPI&amp;F-GRDC collaboration</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The real enemy for farmers waging their war against weeds are the banks of seeds lying hidden beneath the soil - ready to spring to life, cut yields and reduce profits.]]></description>
            
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            <title>New publication offers keys to managing mixed farms</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Farmers focused on the triple bottom line can benefit from a newly released Grain &amp; Graze publication, 'Managing mixed farms in the Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers 2005-2008'<EM>.</EM>]]></description>
            
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            <title>Warwick DPI&amp;F - a great training centre</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A career in agriculture is a great option for young students, with 16-year-old Carmen Suell from Stanthorpe State High taking on a traineeship with the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries' (DPI&amp;F) based in Warwick.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Mice chewing into CQ winter crop profits</title>
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            <title>Fishing in freshwater - know the rules</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lots of families are expected to take advantage of Queensland's fantastic freshwater fishing these school holidays.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Soil health trials target biological input response</title>
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            <title>Food innovators on the menu at agri-business lunch</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Take three horticulture innovators, three courses of Queensland's freshest produce, a glass of wine, a riverfront setting, a captive audience and a helping of bright conversation and you've got a recipe for a great lunch.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Call to growers to finetune spray expertise</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Central region canegrowers from Proserpine to Carmila cropping areas are encouraged to sign up for proposed practical hands-on spray application workshops that will lift their herbicide efficacy and reduce chemical costs.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Action plans to rejuvenate drought-hit pastures</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Planting a summer forage crop as an immediate feed source to relieve grazing pressure on pasture country subjected to a decade of low seasonal rainfall can give stressed pasture time to reseed and restore productivity.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Whale freed from Gold Coast shark nets</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries Marine Animal Release Team (MART) has successfully freed a young adult whale from shark netting off Tugun Beach on the Gold Coast<I> </I>today.]]></description>
            
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            <title>DPI&amp;F working to release entangled whale on the Gold Coast</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&amp;F) has confirmed that a whale has become entangled in shark control netting on the Gold Coast this morning.]]></description>
            
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            <title>Shark net missing from Gold Coast beach</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Gold Coast beachgoers are being asked to keep an eye out for a shark net that has gone missing from Currumbin Creek.]]></description>
            
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