Media Releases

The NSW Government is encouraging consumers to enjoy local seafood this Easter to help support our commercial fishing and aquaculture industries, which have faced a tough start to the year.

The NSW Government is taking positive steps to secure the future of Mulloway by releasing a draft harvest strategy for public feedback.

The latest edition of the NSW Winter Crop Variety Sowing Guide is now available online and in hard copy, designed to assist grain growers and their advisers in making informed decisions to achieve more productive and profitable winter crops in 2025.

Landholders and communities in western NSW are being urged to prepare for extensive flooding and isolation throughout April and May as significant flows from Queensland continue to move down the river systems into NSW.

The 2025 graduation of some 180 students from the State’s premier agriculture college, Tocal College in the Hunter Valley, also marks the sixtieth year it has been training the State’s young agriculture workforce to meet the challenges of tomorrow’s evolving industry.

In what could be one of the most significant gene technology developments in decades, a NSW Government scientist has led a team of international researchers to understand the deep secrets of biology that underpins our food systems, agriculture, and the environment.

Long term surveillance of wild school prawns on the North Coast of NSW, as part of a plan to enable prawn fishers to sell back into domestic markets, has resulted in a positive detection for white spot from prawns sampled from the Clarence, Evans and Richmond River offshore areas.

A new Agtech Collaboration Site in Clunes is set to provide local producers with the opportunity to explore cutting-edge technologies that will enhance remote livestock monitoring, enable data-driven decision-making, and improve overall farm management.

The Menindee community is invited to an open day to tour the new state-of-the-art tube fishway on their doorstep, with the temporary fish passage trial now underway in the Lower Darling-Baaka.

The NSW Government has provided a boost for recreational fishers, the marine environment and the local community with the release of 30,000 Mulloway fingerlings into Sydney’s Georges River today.