Poultry effort: How outdated chicken rules have left $500m industry in a flap

Environmental safeguards and an industry worth $580 million to the Queensland economy are at risk of being trashed while a State Government plan remains bound up in red tape.

Recycled water back in the pipeline in new push for Wivenhoe water grid

The Lockyer Valley region, regarded as Australia’s “salad bowl”, plans to supercharge its agricultural and horticultural industries by resurrecting the state’s mothballed recycled water plant and using a 300km network of pipelines connected to south-east Queensland’s existing water grid.

Somerset Regional Council

Poultry effort: How outdated chicken rules have left $500m industry in a flap

Recycled water back in the pipeline in new push for Wivenhoe water grid