The future of more than 15,000 sheep and cattle remains in limbo after the federal regulator blocked a bid to send them to Israel via a lengthy journey around Africa.
A number of deaths have been recorded on board a live export ship carrying more than 15,000 animals, as it remains in limbo off Fremantle in Western Australia.
Ecuador supplies about 30 per cent of the world's bananas. Infiltration by drug traffickers has contributed to unprecedented violence across this once-peaceful nation.
A New South Wales farmer has rebaited his property against mice via plane after the pests have begun destroying his crops and even managed to infiltrate his trucks' cabin.
Unless humans rapidly change mass food production systems, including eating less beef and dairy, emissions from the sector could add nearly 1 degree to global temperatures by 2100
Supermarket giant Woolworths has confirmed the prices of some packet crisps have been increased as a result of the ongoing potato shortage lashing the country.
Over 1000 sheep that became stranded on an "island" between New South Wales' flooding Lachlan River and Carrawobitty Creek have been brought to safety after a helicopter rescue.
New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.
A new deal is taking Australia a step closer to a world-first vaccine that can help protect the country from the devastation of foot and mouth disease.
Barren battery cages, which are used to contain egg-laying hens, are set to be banned in Australia in what the RSPCA is hailing a "significant win for animal welfare".
Australia may be the best place in the world to shelter if nuclear war broke out, a study has predicted, although an "influx of refugees" from Asia and other regions would likely rush the country to try and survive the atomic holocaust.