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Tasmania, TAS
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03/01/2022 10:00 AM Essential Travellers Entering Tasmania Essential Travellers are: unvaccinated essential workers or unvaccinated visitors that may need to enter the state for exceptional circumstances. Essential Traveller status may allow: entry into Tasmania where it would otherwise have been considered too high-risk an exemption from quarantine for work or compassionate reasons, such as to attend a funeral or in order to undertake essential...
Western Australia, WA
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02/01/2022 08:00 AM To Enter WA Information on WA’s controlled border arrangement, conditions of entry and quarantine. From Saturday 5 February 2022, WA will embark on its Safe Transition and ease interstate and international borders. Updates will be provided when this comes into effect. Western Australia's border arrangement WA is in a safe and sensible controlled border arrangement, based on public health advice. The controlled border arrangement provides a system for safe travel into WA...
Apply for Overseas AI Technicians
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11/10/2021 14:00 PM OVERSEAS TECHNICIANS DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS INFORMATION Overseas Workers - Information on Critical skills and sectors for travel exemptions. Australian Dairy businesses are able to seek exemptions on behalf of individual workers (either individually or grouped) from Australia’s inwards travel restrictions from the Australian Border Force Commissioner. Information on this process is on the Home Affairs website at the following link Critical skills and sectors |...
NSW DPI AASFA Update
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23/03/2021 19:00 PM Agricultural and Animal Services Hotline: 1800 814 647 DPI and LLS are providing assistance to landholders and communities with animal welfare-related issues resulting from the floods, including: Animal assessment and veterinary assistance Stock euthanasia and burial Emergency fodder and emergency stock water (where there is an immediate animal welfare concern) Livestock feeding and management advice Care of animals in...
New Milk Value Portal
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19/11/2020 14:00 PM What is the Farmgate Milk Price? New portal live and freely available. This has been established to answer: What is the Milk Price and What drives the Price (click the link below to view the portal): https://milkvalue.com.au/milk-prices/farmgate-milk-value-tool/ The key drivers who assisted to make this portal happen are Dairy Processes and ADPF Members. This portal will be updated regularly to ensure information stays current. This shows regional prices by farm size, view commodities and...
VCCI – Free Essential Membership Offer
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26/03/2020 16:00 PM The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recently launched a new initiative to help Victorian business survive under tough business conditions exacerbated by bushfire and the coronavirus crises. The initiative, offered for the first time, will waive membership fees for one year for all Victorian businesses up to a value of $700. For NHIA members, businesses from other states are also entitled as VCCI’s Workplace Relations advice line covers national inf...
NHIA Member update : COVID-19
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23/03/2020 16:00 PM In light of Federal and State Government announcements about the rapidly unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, the National Herd Improvement Association of Australia has the following update for members. Essential Services classification: We have confirmed that all states have agreed that agriculture and suppliers of essential services to agriculture will be categorised as essential services. This will include interstate providers of services to SA farmers. On this basis NHIA members will be...
Sexed and export semen sales increase in challenging domestic market
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04/02/2020 12:00 PM For the first time in Australia sales of sexed semen has passed the 200,000 unit mark, increasing 12.8% year-on-year in 2019 according to the National Herd Improvement Association of Australia’s (NHIA) 2019 Semen Market Survey. Sexed semen sales now represent over 10% of semen sold domestically. While total sales declined 10.9% from the record 2,196,456 doses sold in 2018 to 1,957,221, export sales increased by 7.8% from 263,940 to 284,658 units. Commenting on the trends revealed in the annual...