Megan Hughes

The insect said to threaten the food security of 600 million people globally may have met its match in the form of several native Australian fungi and bacteria.

Varroa destructor mite has been found in southern Queensland, the first detection of the world's worst bee-killing parasite in the state.

The inland freight route is meant to keep Queensland open for business during disasters, but five years after the $1 billion "second Bruce" upgrade was announced no real work has been done.

Growers rushed to pick, pack and truck their bananas out before the rain started, but say it will be difficult to restock supermarket shelves after significant flood damage.

You mightn't have heard of harrisia cactus, but for many communities it's causing hospitalisations, killing animals and gobbling up productive land.

After years planting cotton, a growing region has built up a soil pest that sucks the life out of crops — but there may be a solution on the horizon.

Researchers are developing a new pesticide and vaccine to give farmers additional tools to combat cattle ticks that are growing resistant to chemical treatments.

It has been a perfect season for herb growers, with production doubling on some farms, but a wholesaler says consumers are increasingly choosing the dried product.

In its final sitting week, the federal government introduced a bill to strengthen the grocery code of conduct for supermarkets and their suppliers.

Fall armyworm has been referred to the "coronavirus of agriculture" with the devastation the moth causes likened to that of a bushfire. And unfortunately, it's here.

Pressure is mounting to get Australia's chickpea harvest into India before taxes that could cost exporters more than half their profit kick back in.

When the Jessen family lost their major milk processor, they were able to pivot but they want to see more industry representation across the country. 

Rural debt in Queensland has increased by more than 8 per cent in three years, with the beef industry seeing the biggest increase.

Residents' backyard observations could be the key to keeping a biosecurity disaster such as bird flu, varroa mite, or fire ants at bay.

Vegetable grower Carl Walker says farmers are worried the new commissioner's powers won't go far enough. He says farmers just want a "fair price for a fair day's work".

The federal government is undertaking a biosecurity risk assessment after India and Indonesia applied to export pineapples to Australia under their free trade deals.

The Queensland farming group that challenged the federal government in court says all parties, including mining giant Glencore, have agreed to terms to end the legal proceedings.

A flaw in Australia's plant-breeding rights system could mean the fruits, vegetables and grains needed to feed the world and combat climate change are never developed.

One bite was all it took for an Australian cattle breeder to become an industry leader in world beef heavyweight Brazil.

Only about 3 per cent of spices found in your pantry are grown in Australia despite the nation's large agricultural industry, and a research team and a bunch of farmers want to change that.

Scientists have mapped the genome of sugar cane and the hope is that farmers will be able to grow the versatile crop to make biofuel.

There is new hope for graziers despite devastating pasture dieback, which costs graziers billions, spreading west to previously unaffected Queensland cattle country.

Safety remains a huge issue on the state's farms where a number of people have died this year, including a young man killed in a cattle truck incident last month.

A Hollywood A-lister may not have realised the can of worms he was opening by wading into the deforestation debate in Queensland.

Too few to reproduce, a single Asian honey bee queen and her workers defied the odds to establish thousands of colonies. How they did it could help bring others back from the brink, but not without a cost.