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How the Iran war will impact inflation, your overseas holiday – even your morning toast

Just like his tariffs, Donald Trump’s mixed messages on the conflict with Iran will mean upheaval for Australia’s economy.

  • Shane Wright

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China has suspended beef imports from four Australian meatworks.

ScoMo’s China blues comes back to bite our beef sector

Fresh Chinese tariffs have handed beef producers like Gina Rinehart a fizzer of a New Year, but it may be good news for Aussie shoppers.

  • Colin Kruger
It was Trump’s tariffs on everyone, but most notably China, that largely shut US farmers out of key markets.

Tariff rescue: Trump gives Band-Aids to the farmers he hurt

Trump’s $18 billion Band-Aid for embattled US farmers won’t make China buy more soybeans or fix the rising costs of equipment.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
A coffee a day could keep the doctor away.

Why the world’s top coffee producer is switching up its beans

In the coming years, your coffee might start to taste a bit different.

  • Renata Carlos Daou
US President Donald Trump has already caused a lot of damage to the reputation of the world’s most important central bank.

Trump’s $15 billion Band-Aid for the problem he created

These American farmers are having a record year, but their hands are tied.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Buccaneer Archipelago is the site of a proposed barramundi fish farm expansion from global business Tassal.

Tarnished Tassal brand targets WA barramundi

Canadian giant Tassal is at the centre of a raging debate over salmon farming in Tasmania. Now it plans to grow a major operation in a Kimberley marine park.

  • Emma Young
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The shot hole borer has already caused thousands of trees to be felled.

Mulch or ‘wood product’?: Confusion over how the shot-hole borer did the Rotto swim

Deputy Nationals Leader Peter Rundle took particular issue with conflicting responses about how the borer made its way to Rottnest Island.

  • Hamish Hastie
Beef cattle on a farm near Winslow, Victoria.

‘Dairy shortages, no ifs or buts’: Milk and butter prices to rise as farmers tread water

The high cost of recovery from repeated floods and droughts will contribute to inflation on supermarket shelves.

  • Jessica Yun

When was the last time egg prices were $4.20?

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton were asked about the price of eggs – and one politician’s answer was much further off the mark than the other.

  • Jessica Yun
Ninth generation farmer Caleb Ragland on his property in Magnolia, Kentucky.

‘We don’t want to be the sacrificial lamb’: The farmers hurt by Trump’s tariffs

Caleb Ragland voted Republican three times and doesn’t regret it. But he is about to plant a field of crops that China loves to buy – and he is very worried.

  • Michael Koziol