Australian honey producers have won what they hope is a final battle in a long-running trans-Tasman war over who can use the word, manuka, milk prices for the next financial year have been confirmed and dairy farmers will be getting paid less for their product and the latest winter outlook shows an 80 per cent chance of below average rainfall over the next three months.

Dairy processors to release their opening milk prices on World Milk Day, dairy farmer feeds chocolate and lollies to his cows and pink is the new orange when it comes to citrus as new varieties come on the market.

It might not produce chocolate milk, but dairy cows in South East South Australia are happy to take the choclate and lollies that would otherwise go to waste.

About 350 dairy farmers who settled a class action with Fonterra over the 2016 dairy crisis have learned they will get about 10 per cent of what they claimed they lost in milk payments, an old Viterra silo site on the Eyre Peninsula will soon be collecting plastics rather than grain and a wet season has made for tricky conditions this season, lowering quince yields for some growers in the South East.

The chief executive of Australian Pork Limited explains the fallout from the ABC investigation into pig stunning using carbon dioxide, weed killers for use by farmers could soon be made from failed antibiotics and a new method of working out how old a fish is, might hold the key to ending over-fishing.

The grieving parents of a young veterinarian who died by suicide have launched a national campaign urging people to be kind to vet staff.

A wool exporter says the significant drop in last week's wool price is due to a lack of demand from Australia's key market, China, drones could be deployed to help  the South East tree plantations and the grieving parents of a young veterinarian who died by suicide have launched a national campaign urging people to be kind to vet staff

Strong start to the Riverland's citrus season, a Coonawarra wine has won big at this year's International Wine Challenge and pig welfare will come under scrutiny from a Victorian parliamentary committee after a motion to examine the industry has been approved.

Grain Producers SA has shared concerns of South Australian grain growers about mobile phone connectivity to a Federal parliamentary committee, snapper fingerlings have been released into the big wide world to help increase the population in the Spencer Gulf and woodland bird species in the Mount Lofty Ranges have been in decline for 20 years but a $820,000 grant from the State Government aims to tackle the issue.

The Fleurieu Community Co-operative - an revamp of the Strathalbyn abattoir - is back on track with $1.1 million funding secured from the State Government, mice reports  arepatchy across the state as winter crop seeding continues and dewatering of the flooded areas of the Murraylands continues as 40 gigalitres of water needs to be removed from the region.