Talk:Agriculture in Australia

message: I want to add a thing on sugar, but I know little botanical/horticultural classification. (Monocot, Dicot, Gymnosperm & Angio is about as far as I go). So i don't know whether sugar industry should be a separate heading (probably should be anyway its big enough) or mentioned in Horticulture.
Also pineapples, Where would they go?--ZayZayEM 05:12, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sugar falls under crops in the stats, technically sugar is a grass (monocot) so a subsection in crops would be a good place for sugar. Pineapples are definatley a horticultural crop --nixie 05:23, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugar, Sugar, baby 

message: There we have the great iconic landuse of rangelands and dammed if I can see anything about it in this art? If nobody replies on this one will try to insert somewhere.User:SatuSuro 08:39, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's all agriculture, and thus some comment on the big cattle stations belongs here.  --Robert Merkel 23:40, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Yes, very important to have some mention of cattle and sheep stations here, but that does not preclude a separate rangeland/pastoralism in australia article - like x% of australian landmass is taken up by them, and this is after all an encyc.User:SatuSuro 01:55, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sheep station/Cattle station 

message: The section Major agricultural products does not list wool in the top ten. This does not appear consistent with ABARE livestock (PDF). --Scott Davis Talk 05:45, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The most recent stats are here if someone wants to update it.--Peta 06:45, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wool is missing

message: I am reverting animal welfare back to pre Russel dyer. It's an Encyclopedia not a soap box. 
Removing the bit about it not being as emotive as European Union. That is a Judgement that I
see hard to justify for an encyclopedia and a red rag to a bull if someone is emotiive on the issue. Charles Esson 20:13, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Soap box

message: im cotemplating should we change rape seed to canola ive worked on may farms and ive been heavily involved in the industry for for more then 10 years and ive always heard it called canola i look foward to everyones feedback cheers Bnsbeaver —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bnsbeaver (talk • contribs) 09:05, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapeseed 

message: For this article to move toward FA-quality the referencing needs to be in-line citations not general statements all statistics from these two sites....
If you are able to go back and make use of  statements for the edits you made that would probably be enough to get this article to A-class. Use of tags for inline citeation is discussed at WP:CITE.
(yes it's a hobby horse of mine).
BTW: Mulesing is the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight
Garrie 02:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referencing 

message: that section is terribly POV anti-green. Given the strength of the statments made it is almost worth removing unless someone can provide references.Garrie 03:02, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Specifically: as it stands the section totally disregards the fact that the clearing of native grassland, to make way for annual crops, is seen as a significant factor in the widespread problem of dryland salinity. (that's assuming that what it is saying, is actually correct - as it is unsourced, who knows?) Garrie 03:18, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Land Clearing 

message: I just removed this edit criticizing the claim that indigenous Australian's were hunter-gatherers who did not practice agriculture as it's not appropriate to have fact checking annotation within the article.  I moved it here so that more knowledgeable editors could address whether or not the article needs changing. Thanks -- Siobhan Hansa 18:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Indigenous Australians practiced agriculture? 

message: As in the insects...
I understand - but don't know for sure and definately can't reference - that pretty much, people farm sheep as far north as they can without running into extreme problems with ticks - beyond which they stick to Bos Indicus type cattle.
Am I right? If so - should there be something about the effect of ticks on type of enterprise?
Or should this be in Sheep station?Garrie 04:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ticks 

message: g'day, in the german wikipedia a question arose about the claim, that 80% of australian agricultural products are exported... is this figure still valid? are there any sources? thanks, --82.83.30.141 14:41, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  export figures 

message: It remains a B class but there are large numbers of unsourced stats, there some EL withi the article text which should be converted to references. Gnangarra 12:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP Aus B-class assessment 

message: Genetic Modification section uses the word "said" quite a lot. Can you try to change some of it into other words with similar meanings to seem less repetitive?--Ababcdc1 (talk) 08:38, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of the word "said" 

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message: :I read the "Genetic modification" section that has an overkill on the use of the word "said" and this was mentioned above. There is also an overuse of pronouns and quotes without quotations: "some grain producers" (peacock term), "They argue" (these vague grain producers), "Producers have also said", "He said the "amazing" results" (from previous sentence "Bignell told farmers they should not use GM"), "He said that "Instead of using...", "Bignell said the trials had strengthened...", "...which he said gave the state's produce a "market edge".", and "Bignell also said he believed results...". 
:To me everything from "Producers have also said their GM-free grain is not translating to higher profits." needs to be rewritten or deleted.  Otr500 (talk) 14:21, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetic modification 

message: I'm working on this page since it was the first listed under WikiProject Australia that was C-rated but Top priority. Here's a bit of a to-do list that I think would be helpful. Feel free to action any of these or let me know if you have disagreements or ideas
* combine (and also... update) Production and Major Agricultural Products
* include politically topical issues like sustainable fishing (e.g. TasSal controversy) and live exports (currently moving towards a ban)
* several topics under specific commodity headings could be moved to the Issues section. e.g. the live exports and wool animal welfare issues.
* need some more information about the wool industry
* there's really no mention of things like mental health concerns for farmers and economic hardship. Or labor shortages of 2020 onwards (visa issues could be discussed...)
* water security issues e.g. the Murray Darling basin
* history and cultural context, maybe talk about some Aus folk songs
*Indigenous issues regarding Euro ag e.g. the Bathurst War. 
* invasive species and pests - national biosecurity management
* find a better water drainage division graphic (that is not copyright)
* intro - first para needs subjective statements clarified and encylopedia-ified. add some more high level exposition on industry and its history, products and people. zoning information can go in a separate section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 20WattSphere (talk • contribs) 12:33, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  To-do list