24 Jul 2008 NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Director-General, Richard Sheldrake, today announced that three NSW DPI scientists are finalists in the prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prizes.

04 Jul 2008 NSW DPI researchers have received funding to investigate a new microsporidian parasite (Nosema ceranae) in honeybees.

04 Jul 2008 Foresight about the impact on food prices and security, and the social implications for third world countries of sourcing biofuels from food crops guided NSW DPI to research second generation feedstocks.

04 Jul 2008 Valuable information on the recreational fishery in two major impoundments - Burrinjuck and Blowering Dams - is being gathered by NSW DPI researchers.

04 Jul 2008 LandMAPT Database - developed by NSW DPI - has been taken up by NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change and Victorian Department of Primary Industries for monitoring and evaluation of natural resource management (NRM) indicators.

04 Jul 2008 With Mother’s Day just around the corner Orange-based researchers are developing cost effective ways to match lambs and their mothers in a bid to boost genetic gain and sheep producer’s returns through greater knowledge and use of animal pedigree, Minister for Primary Industries, Ian Macdonald, said today.

04 Jul 2008 Screening chickpea germplasm for resistance to Phytophthora root rot (PRR) has been given a boost by results from a NSW DPI field trial conducted in 2007. 

04 Jul 2008 NSW DPI researchers are predicting an exciting future and new levels of profitability for irrigated wheat following the results of a wheat variety trials.

04 Jul 2008 The success of a new fish lift at Tallowa Dam will be the focus of a four-year NSW DPI study.

04 Jul 2008 The first consistent national assessment of 10 of Australia’s significant invasive animal species has been produced under a cooperative project coordinated by NSW DPI.

04 Jul 2008 Investing further in the State’s capacity to respond to exotic disease incursions, the recent NSW budget allocated more than $43 million to upgrade biosecurity facilities at the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute (EMAI), Camden.

04 Jul 2008 Lamb chops have been getting more delicious and it’s partially due to the research results from a local scientist, Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald said today.

04 Jul 2008 New rice growing trials will be conducted on the NSW North Coast - 1500 kilometres from the State’s traditional Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) rice growing region.

04 Jul 2008 A NSW DPI scoping study of beneficial insects for the Riverina Plains Farming Systems Group found 91 different beneficial species in the sampled 10 paddocks of wheat, triticale, canola and lucerne pasture.

24 Jun 2008 NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Director-General Dr Richard Sheldrake today congratulated DPI scientist Dr Rod Mailer for winning the prestigious Timothy Mounts Award for his research into the science and technology of edible oils.