NEW INDUSTRIES

• Improving consumer Perceptions of Kangaroo Products
• Sustainable Economic Use of Native Australian Birds and Reptiles

New Plant Products

• Storing and handling culinary herbs (SR69)
• Financial Analysis Indicators of New Rural Industries (SR57)
• Lathyrus – a new grain legume (SR70)

Essential Oils & Plant Extracts

• Optimising constituent yields echinacea  (SR137)

Borage production for oil and gamma-linolenic acid (SR133)

Wildflowers & Native Plants
 

• Combatting wildflower wounding response  (SR110)
• Blue Smokebush May Corner Niche Wilflower Market inJapan  (SR110)
• Waxflower Breeding for New and Better Native Flowers  (SR109)
• Cultivation of Golden Cascade will boost cutflower exports to Japan  (SR108)
• Disease management and new varieties may boost exports of wildflowers (SR91)
• Wildflower marketing strategy being developed (SR88)
• Wildflower industry adopts a 'do it ourselves' research concept  SR82
• Flannel Flower cultivation is promising in four States  (SR84)
• Fungicides identified to fight protea disease  (SR85)
• Preservation of export native flowers  (SR81)
• Acacia has promising potential as export cut flower crop  (SR45)
• Fumigation Techniques for Export Wildflowers  (SR78)
• Broombrush Baeckea Wildflowers - Commercial Prospects  (SR71)
• Scarlet Bloodroot Australia’s new cut flower export? (SR 53)
• Enhancing the Commercial Potential of Rice Flower (SR55)
• Better waxflowers and Protea through nutrient management  (SR15)
• Smoke is key to germinating native flora seeds (SR 48)
• Managing Post-harvest Temperature in Cut Flowers (SR 19)
• Research Opens Way to Better Geraldton Waxflower Outturn (SR13)
• Production Management and Handling of Quality New Native Cutflowers for Export(SR18)
• Development of Rice Flower as a cut flower crop (SR14)
• Development of Baeckea behrii, Other Baeckea and Scholtzia Species as Cutflowers for the Export and Local Markets (SR16)
• Flannel flower (Actinotis helianthi) as a cutflower crop (SR27)
• Proper insect control boosts Australian cut flower exports to Japan and USA(SR17)
• Fumigating Australian Wildflowers for Export (SR31)
• Smoke is key to germinating native flora seeds (SR48)
• Native Cut Flowers: Extending Postharvest Shelf Life  (SR72)

Asian Foods
 

• Kabocha and Japanese Pumpkin in Australia (SR121)

Asian Vegetable Industry in East Gippsland (SR23)

Rare Natural (Animal) Fibres

• The Economics of Commercial Cashmere Goat Enterprises (SR 2)
• The Economics of Commercial Angora Goat Enterprises (SR 3)

• Bitter Melon in Australia (SR116)

Tree Tree Oil

• Using clones to establish tea tree plantations (SR73)

• Organic farming in South East Queensland urged  (SR87)
• Strategic plan seeks opportunities for Australian organic dairy production and marketing  (SR86)
• Conservation tillage practices will aid farm profitability (SR76)

Chicken Meat

Deer

Ecchymosis – What Causes It? (SR 62)

Horses

• Developmental Orthopaedic Disease in Thoroughbreds (SR12)

Honeybee

• Update on research to control Small Hive Beetles – May 2005
• Control of European Foulbrood with OTC and Apirary Management (SR135)
• Successful Introduction and Performance of Queen Bees in a Commercial Apiary (SR126)
• Bulk Honey Containers (SR10)

Fodder Crops

• Research to support specification of fodder quality

Environment and Farm Issues A Voluntary Australian Land Management Certification System(SR142)

Agroforestry & Farm Forestry

 
• Using and Managing Acacia:  Adding Value (SR143_
• Farmwood Australia - export markets for farm-grown wood  (SR127)
• What’s happening in the farm forestry market? Volume 2: 1999-2001  (SR111)
• Designing Blue Gum Alley Farms (SR99)
• Guidelines for biodiversity conservation in new and existing softwood plantations(SR77)
• Integrating Farm Forestry and Biodiversity (SR68)
• Windbreaks- Increasing Crop Growth on the Atherton Tablelands  (SR67)
• What’s happening in the farm forestry market?  (SR 65)
• Trees face the acid test  (SR 59)
• Water Use by Trees (SR39)
• Interim Guidelines for Revegetating Areas with Shallow, Saline Watertables (SR46)

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• Groundwater uptake and salt accumulation by trees over shallow water tables (SR40)
• On-Site Processing For Farm Forestry - Does It Stack Up? (SR 38)
• Market, economic and social assessment of low rainfall carob agroforestry in the Murray Valley (SR24)
• How Trees Affect Soils (SR29)
• Progress towards commercial farm forestry in Australia (SR34)
• Creating a viable farm forestry industry in Australia - what will it take? (SR35)
• Links between small-scale growers and industry: Principles and practices for commercial farm forestry (SR36)
• Trees for Proft:boosting regional economies with farm forestry (SR 21)

Global Competitiveness

 
• Coping with change – farm level adjustment and policy reform (SR06-140)
• Australia well positioned to export pickled and dried Asian vegetables (SR89)
• Has Japanese agricultural protection had its day?  Policies for the new millennium (ANU-36A)
• Asian economic crisis strategies for Australian agrifood companies  (SR49)
• Asian Festivals and Customs - A Food Exporter's Guide (SR61)
• Indonesia's Agribusiness Policies & Opportunities for Aust. Trade & Investment (SR25
• Australian exporters urged to target Myanmar (SR32)
• Opportunities and implications for Australian food exporters in India (SR33)

Human Capital, Communications & Information Systems

• Coping with change – farm level adjustment and policy reform (SR06-140)
• Email 'Games dentify  Research and Developmnt Programs (SR125)
• Electronic deliveryoffers new rural work opportunities  (SR134)
• Schools -a vital part of rural community development (SR112)
• Farmers conduct ‘virtual experiments’ on the internet  (SR80)
• Stage 2 – Missed Opportunfoities Unlocking the future for women in Australian Agriculture(SR79)
• Missed Opportunities - Harnessing the Potential of Women in Australian Agricluture (SR26)
• Rural Benchmarking Programs - A Review (SR74) - Not available online. Contact RIRDC on publications@rirdc.gov.au for a free printed copy to be sent to you.
• Agricultural Extension - a decade of change (SR66)
• Structural change in the farm inputs industry (SR56)
• Farmers and the Internet (SR58)
• ‘Mental models’ bridge rural communication gaps (SR 43)
• Improving farmers’management practices via learning and group participation (SR 44)

Alley Farming in Australia (SR 8)
• Rural Extension Training Courses (SR 1)
• Networking Systems for Rural Women (SR 5)
• Pilot study on the Relationship Between Farmer Education

& Good Farm Management (SR 6)
• Financial Performance of Broadacre Agriculture (SR 7)
• Developing Indicators for sustainable Agriculture (SR 20)
• Evaluation Shows Computers Benefit Far Business Managment (SR9)
• How Computer-based Learning Can Boost Farmers' Grasp of Accounnting Packages(SR11)
• The impact of an Enterprise Program on Rural Youth Development (SR28)
• Improved tertiary education in farm communities is high priority (SR30)
• Farm Health and Safety Joint Program
• Making Farm Machinery Safer: Lessons from injured farmers (SR145)
• A "pyramid" approach to farm machinery safety  (SR123)
• Fatalities on Australian Farms (SR101)

Resilient Agricultural Systems

• Environmental Management Systems in Agriculture - Case Studies of Australian and New Zealand Farms  (SR129)
• Emerging Challenges for Farming Systems Lessons from Australian and Dutch agriculture(SR128)
• New Pharmaceutical, Nutraceutical and Industrial Products - The potential for Australian agriculture (SR90)