The wild crocodile egg collecting season has been an unusual one so far, according to a long time crocodile farm owner; A Northern Territory tropical fruit farmer says demand has been strong for pomelos during the Chinese New Year; Industry and governments across the country are grappling with the fall-out of a court ruling on Indigenous Land Use Agreements; The final investment decision is looming for the company which plans to build a $1.9 billion dollar prawn farm on Legune Station near the WA border, towards Kununurra; Careflight responds to news that the RFDS is moving into the Top End; One of the best known agricultural training institutions in the country, the Longreach Pastoral College, turned 50 this week

The chair of scientific inquiry into fracking says the final report and its recommendations will be presented to the Northern Territory Government later this year; A proposed ban on catching female mud crabs in the Gulf of Carpentaria is no longer being considered by the Northern Territory Government; High cattle prices and heavy rain means it's been a quiet start to the year for Road Trains of Australia with only ten drivers working; The Harvey bait factory in Western Australia has started producing cane toad sausages for a very unique conservation project in the Kimberley; Biosecurity Queensland says white spot disease has been detected in more than 100 wild prawns just south of the Logan River in the state's south east; A ruling by the Full Federal Court over a native title Land Use Agreement in Western Australia will have far reaching implications across Australia; Northern Australian water birds are flocking to the largest inland lake in NSW following a flood event that destroyed up to three quarters of the region's crops.

The Federal Government hasn't ruled-out looking to the Territory to accommodate Singapore's military after it abandoned plans to acquire farmland in Queensland; The Territory's only commercial red-flesh grapefruit harvest kicked off at daylight this morning, with pickers converging on Seven Fields' nine-hectare orchard; A joint mining venture in the Tanami for Ramelius Resources has shown up disappointing exploration results with only low order gold amounts found; A proposal has emerged to pipe water from Lake Argyle to grow crops almost 200 kilometres away on Flora Valley Station near the WA/NT border; A Queensland meat processor says the price of beef sold in Australia could fall by as much as 30 per cent, if the US starts exporting beef to Australia again.

With another Qld farmer found with the virus, two Northern Territory fisheries staff remain in Queensland, helping authorities with the prawn white spot disease response; A recommendation suggesting the wind-up of landline phone services has been heavily criticised by the Northern Territory Cattleman's Association; Kieran Martin from Willowra, who wrote a story for the ABC's Heywire competition, is spending this week in Canberra with winners from around the country; The Wyndham Port is hopeful of getting its biggest customer back this year, with Panoramic Resources looking to potentially reopen its moth-balled mine soon; Global trade for beef has entered an unprecedented era of uncertainty with the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House and with Britain exiting Europe; The first shipment of Australian slaughter cattle set sail for China from Victoria on Saturday, sourced by Elders, bought by Shanghai CRED.

With the wet season interrupting the movement of cattle in the Northern Territory Top End, live exporters are heading further south and east to source cattle to fill boats out of the port of Darwin; Chairman of the Regional Economic Development Committee in Tennant Creek Greg Marlow says around 20 workers from the town, who were laid off from the mine in 2015, have returned to work for OM Manganese; At Erldunda Roadhouse, about 200 kilometres south of Alice Springs, there is a rooster that thinks it is a kangaroo.

The Northern Territory Department of Resources has launched a drone to photograph old and deteriorating mine sites; The Bureau of Meteorology says rain in January for the entire Northern Territory was more than double the average; With Ord stage three put on the back burner by the NT Government who is turning its attention to the Katherine region, the Member for Katherine says the area has a strong future in agriculture; The company in charge of constructing the Northern Gas Pipeline says work is due to start next month, despite still awaiting approvals; Today marks the start of the commercial barramundi season in the north, with fishermen hoping the big wet season will hopefully result in big catches.

The Northern Territory Department of Resources says it's approved a revised mining management plan for the moth-balled Bootu Creek manganese mine; Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie says she supports changing the ABC's charter to see shortwave radio services re-instated; The Australian Communications and Media Authority has reversed an earlier decision to make 40 channel UHF radios illegal from June; A draft report by the Productivity Commission suggests the Government and other telcos could save millions of dollars a year by winding back the obligation to guarantee basic telephones, because voice over internet protocols (VoIP) and mobile networks were taking over; Soil in arid parts of Central Australia has shown potential for horticultural development, a study has found; Domestic Australian gas supplier Central Petroleum says switching its mainly FIFO workforce to on-site workers has really helped the company get into a good position.

Magpie geese that destroyed 13,000 trays of mangoes in North Queensland could have flown from the Northern Territory; Northern Territory hay crops are well out of the ground and growing strongly around Katherine after a great start to the wet season; The ABC has today switched off its shortwave services in the Northern Territory, with some Alice Springs locals holding a 'wake' to mark the moment; Friends and family of well-known Territory bushman Ian Michael are celebrating the life of the late cattlemen after he passed away late last month; Professor Ben Hayes from the University of Queensland is working on sequencing a Brahman cow in hopes her genes will unlock the secrets to important traits in Bos indicus cattle.

A Northern Territory commercial fisherman says the ABC's HF shortwave radio transition alternatives offer little to support remote listeners; Only a few months after the Northern Territory's iconic Grove Hill Hotel closed, publican Stan Heausler has reopened the pub's old iron doors; The Territory Government is looking for growers to develop land at the Arid Zone Research Centre in Alice Springs; The cattle in Central Australia, along with the camels at Stuarts Well about 100 kilometres south of Alice Springs, are all enjoying the recent rain; Australia's second biggest cattle producer, the Consolidated Pastoral Company, has just shipped off its first load of cattle for 2017.

Indian sandalwood producer Tropical Forestry Services buys a Northern Territory banana and melon farm in Douglas-Daly; Lake Nash Station on the Queensland-Northern Territory border welcomes more rain this week, and sees the Georgina River flood; Lake Argyle in the Kimberley is overflowing for the first time in three years, with water pouring over the spillway as of yesterday afternoon.