This is the website for Rural Assist Information Network

This links to financial assistance and related services available to help primary producers, businesses and communities

Personal and Family matters are those which concern individuals, couples and families
This section has been compiled to provide general health information on a broad range of health issues
This links to information related education
This links to the home pages of various organisations that cover forecasts and observations
Community Well-being is a concept that refers to an optimal quality of healthy community life
This links to the key production information on government and other Websites
This links to a variety of information and services for employment, training and statistics
This section describes what Disaster Recovery is within the context of the overall disaster management system in Queensland
 

Crop Research and Development

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) http://www.grdc.com.au
This website contains research reports, media releases and a page with links to a wealth of Australian and overseas agricultural websites. A good site to search for further information.

Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)
http://www.rirdc.gov.au
The RIRDC website provides very good information for new industries and offers free newsletters and full reports on many topics.

Cotton Research And Development Corporation (CRDC) http://www.crdc.com.au

CSIRO
http://www.csiro.gov.au/

New Crops information
http://www.newcrops.uq.edu.au/ map.htm

Water Use Efficiency
Factsheets, tools, conferences and workshops and discussion lists http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/rwue/

 

Sustainable Farming Systems Projects
Western; Central Qld; Eastern.
The proceedings of the first Australian Farming Systems conference are at http://www.afsa.asn.au/

The Australian Agronomy conference proceedings can be found at http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa

Precision Agriculture - presentations made at the annual symposium; proceedings/abstracts are found at http://www.usyd.edu.au/agric/acpa Other sites include http://www.nzcpa.com (New Zealand Centre for Precision Agriculture, Massey University), and CSIRO’s project work at http://www.clw.csiro.au/research/ agriculture/southern/publications.html. Dialogue/discussion about precision agriculture on the Agriculture Online site at http://www.agriculture.com

Other sites with information and resources include DPI's Cropping Principles; APSRU; GRDC; Cotton CRC; and Pulse Australia.