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Capes of Good Hope The Art of creating cloaks made of possum skins was almost lost. Now these ancient skills are being revived, using modern tools.

Chicken Juggernaut. Australian Farm Journal. 4 part series. 2012While 99% of Australia's livestock farmers wrestle with world market prices, the fluctuating Australian dollar and variable seasonal conditions to produce red meat as efficiently as possible, a tiny few of their … Continue reading →

The Weekend Australian, March 6 – 7, 2010A hand up, not a handoutLabor rethinks the assistance offered to farmersAsa Wahlquist      Droughts are not what they used to be, and changes to drought policy are long overdue. So when Federal agriculture … Continue reading →

The Australian January 23-24, 2010  p 32Tried and tested irrigation region becomes a vineyard graveyardThe oversupply of winegrapes has hit the inland areas of the Murray hardestAsa Wahlquist     On a hill near Merbein, high above a bend in the … Continue reading →

The Australian  November 18, 2009   page 27Agricultural scientists are too thin on the ground  Agricultural science, food and natural resource management, have never been more important, argues Mark Adams, dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at … Continue reading →

Cattle and Methane, broadcast on Ockham's Razor, ABC Radio National, August 12, 2012. A lot of people, amongst them Britain's Lord Stern and Sir Paul McCartney, argue that eating less meat could help save the planet. But there is a … Continue reading →

28 May 1943 – 13 March 2008 (See also an earlier article by Åsa Wahlquist: Man with a plan). After the news of Peter Cullen's final illness was made public on Tuesday March 11, Wentworth Group director Peter Cosier, said … Continue reading →

Published in The Australian July 29, 2004 In 40 years Australian farming has been turned on its head. At the heart of the change is a more hard-headed appreciation of the wide brown land. Rural writer Åsa Wahlquist examines the … Continue reading →

Published in The Weekend Australian Magazine, May 31- June 1 2003 Not only can environmental scientist Peter Cullen demystify phenomena such as salinity and drought, he has workable solutions – and the ear of the Prime Minister.