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If you are a newbie Click on the links below to watch helpful video tutorial on:.

How to Register as a Commenter.

How to Use the Commenting System

This is where our members post any of their thoughts, ideas, general information, coming event notices, photos , Youtube Videos, groups and organizations press releases and links to relevant, interesting news items articles that they want to share, comment on and discuss with others in the community.

Scroll down through the forum to see heaps of interesting stuff posted by our members.

Join over 10,000 people who are already members of the Agmates Community. This is where you join HERE (yes its a separate registration from registering as a commentator, you can be a registered commentator without being a registered Agmates member and vice versa) and register for our FREE E-newsletter.

Go back to News homepage HERE. Visit Agmates Trader HERE. Visit our Agmates E-traders HERE.

If you are a newbie Click on the links below to watch helpful video tutorial on:.

How to Register as a Commenter.

How to Use the Commenting System

This is where our members post any of their thoughts, ideas, general information, coming event notices, photos , Youtube Videos, groups and organizations press releases and links to relevant, interesting news items articles that they want to share, comment on and discuss with others in the community.

Scroll down through the forum to see heaps of interesting stuff posted by our members.

Join over 10,000 people who are already members of the Agmates Community. This is where you join HERE (yes its a separate registration from registering as a commentator, you can be a registered commentator without being a registered Agmates member and vice versa) and register for our FREE E-newsletter.

Go back to News homepage HERE. Visit Agmates Trader HERE. Visit our Agmates E-traders HERE.

We have teamed up with technology company JS-Kit to give our members the greatest individual publishing power in Australia.

Our new cutting edge technology commenting system allows our members to:

• Have their say. Published immediately, no waiting for moderation, no editing.

• Edit your text – Bold – Italic – Underline.

• Publish up to 5 photos with their your comment

• Insert links to articles of interest on other sites

• Insert YouTube videos.

• Upload your online Profile picture

• Store all of your comments online..

• Start online conversations or join in with others on topics of interest. Its much more fun and informative than sitting in front of the TV at night.

Register at the comments box at the bottom of any article. Where it says ‘Guest’ click on the arrow and from the drop down box select ‘New JS-Kit profile’ and register.

Have your say on the issues that count or just let others in the community know whats happening in your part of the world. There is no such thing as isolation anymore.

Click here to see an example of what is discussed on the daily readers forum.

You’ll be surprised who you run into that you might already know on the Agmates online forums (Scroll down below the article to read members comments).

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No you have not dropped off our email list – The last newsletter was sent back on the 4th February.

Despite not sending out a newsletter in February visitor numbers went up 19.8% over the January figures. That is incredible if you remember visitor numbers surged 41% in the month of January over the December numbers which were up 23% on November.

Agmates members in droves are saving the site as their home page. The daily Agmates Community News forum is the best place to keep up with news that impacts rural and regional communities not only in Australia, but across the world.

If you have not seen what you are missing Click here to have a look at today’s Agmates Community News Forum.

Click here and follow the simple instructions to save Agmates News as your home Page.

Thanks to all the members who have been actively promoting our great online rural & regional community to their friends and businesses they deal with.

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G’day Agmates. Welcome to the weekend forum.

• Readers Forum ….

  Start your own online topic or converse with other readers.

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• Today’s Weather…………….. The best weather related news

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Agmates Editorial

• Asean Free Trade Agreement Opens Australia to Flood of Cheap Food Imports

Pssst Don't look now, but there is an Elephant in the room - Click on photo to read this Agmates editorial article.

• Rudd & Swan – Clueless Cowboys

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

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Australia Today

• Governing the Labor way – “Downhill, one ski – no poles”

Photo taken 23/02/2009 Six kilometers from the mouth of the Warburton Creek that flows into Lake Eyre North, - To see teriffic photo's of the progress of the flood waters past Birdsville right to the mouth of Lake Eyre click on the photo to visit Wrightsair web site.

• Water breathes life into the dead heart … story and watch an excellent video of water flooding into Lake Eyre from the Australian

• 2,029 homes, 2385 agricultural sheds, dairies and machinery burnt – Massive Vic fires clean up set to start

• Dole spike hits boom states of QLD and WA

• QLD Miner says Bligh’s royalty slug is costing jobs

• Woolworths profits jump 10.3% …… is anybody else offended by this?

• AAA rating not a priority for Andrew Fraser … Is Fraser QLD’s most incompetent treasurer ever?

• Labor’s ETS trickery … Jennifer Hewett

• The great repression …. Niall Ferguson

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World

Clint Eastwood

• Clint Eastwood Hits out – political correctness has made society humourless

• 5-Banks cede control to govts; Japan, India falter.

• US Economy shrinks at fastest pace in quarter of a century

• US taxes hiked by $1 trillion over 10 years to pay for Obama’s stimulus.

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Rural

• AUSTRALIA will open its markets completely to imports from the 10 ASEAN countries,

• AAco agrees to sell 3 QLD cattle stations .. Developing

• PrimeAg $300 million investment returns $215,000 in the last 6 months … there’s a lot of money in farming

• AWB shares collapse to 86 cents over doubts on $1 billion refinancing

• 3 million tonnes of Wheat exported since deregulation in Oct 2008

• Push to carbon storage in soil for greenhouse emissions

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Agmates

• John Purcell Questions Anna Bligh’s Ability to Govern Queensland

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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G’day Agmates. As you can see our new news format is all done. The new wider screen version. Fantastic member commenting / blogging system, most recent comments are back and over on the right side bar –> . Its taken exactly 7 days.

During that 7 days of intensive development this News forum has not been as comprehensive as usual and I’ve barely had time to write. But we are over that now.

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• Agmates Readers Forum ….

  The new JS-Kit commenting system is the most advance and simple to use commenting system in the world. It makes instant bloggers out of all of our members. You now have a mini blog within the huge Agamtes Rural Blog. Set yourself up an account and you can publish photos and Youtube video with your blog. You have as much publishing power as I do.

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• Today’s Weather…………….. The best weather related news

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Agmates Editorial

• Rudd & Swan – Clueless Cowboys

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Are we turning into a nation of sooks?

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

Australia Today

Kevin Kevin Rudd splurges $3.4m on overseas travel - Click on Photo to Read

• Outcry as Industry minister Carr declares ‘no job safe’

• Industry demands Rudd delay ETS for two-years

• Fairfax Media trading halt .. Seeking $500m to reduce $2.5b debt

• Lend Lease slashes 1700 jobs after $596m loss

• Auditor General slams NSW Health Dept: millions in the red

• Westfield announces first loss in 48 year history … $2.2 billion

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World

Barack Obama

• Barack Obama unveils budget that totals $3.606 trillion

• Financial crisis sparks unrest across Europe

• General Motors losses a massive AUD$47.5 Billion in 2008 .. Concerns about its viability

• Obama wants to raise money via pollution caps:

• Obama to cut US farm subsidies … That’s right the #1 Free Traders in the world subsidize their farmers.

Rural

Is Recycled Sewerage Water Killing Victoria's Food Bowl - Click on Photo to Read ....

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• WA Grain ship backlog another consequence of deregulation

• North American farmers In Australia to Warn of GM concerns

• ‘Everyone’s a winner, unless you require food’: Burke

NQ Cattle Truck rolls in Malanda 14 dead cattle in streets - Photo Jennifer Eliot

• Cattle killed in NQ rollover .. story & photos Cairns.com …  thanks Simon in Cairns

Agmates

• John Purcell Questions Anna Bligh’s Ability to Govern Queensland

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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G’day Agmates. Will add to this during the day. Finally hope to get to write some articles today as well.

You should also see a new wider version of Agmates news today.

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• Agmates Forum … Have your say here

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• Today’s weather from Weather Zone

• The best weather related news

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Agmates Editorial

• Rudd & Swan – Clueless Cowboys

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Are we turning into a nation of sooks?

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

Australia Today

Iconic Australian Brands Bonds, KingGee, Yakka NO more. Made in China, as 1,850 Aussies sacked and 7 factories close

• Bonds axes 1,850 Aussie Jobs as manufacturer heads to China …  another victory for the Free Traders

• Seven Network joins Nine in being declared worthless

World

Turkish 737 Plane Crashes

• Amsterdam Plane Crash – 9 Dead … Photos & Video

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Rural

• Bligh’s blind to bushfire warning …. Michael Thomson

• Wine Group Australian Vintage loses $127 million half-year

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Agmates

• John Purcell Questions Anna Bligh’s Ability to Govern Queensland

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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G’day Agamtes.

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• Today’s Agmates Readers Forum .. Have Your Say here!

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• All the weather from weather zone.

• The best weather related news coverage in Australia

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Agmates Editorial

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Are we turning into a nation of sooks?

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

Australia Today

• Taxpayers face $2bn welfare bill as unemployment soars

• Anna Bligh setback top adviser says no reason for early poll

• Billionaire LNP backer Palmer sues Premier, Treasurer

• Divorce bad for environment says Senator Fielding … I didn’t know the good Senator was a drinker?

• Retirement by 70 a fading hope for many Aussies

• PM’s new title: chairman of the bored-room

• Emission impossible: the sad truth … Ross Gittens

• Rudds strategy devised by Hollowmen for shallow men …. Alex Mitchell

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World

Rupert Murdoch's Grim warning to News Limited staff

• Murdoch Warns: Nations will be redefined, futures altered.

• Google’s Gmail service crashes across world .. . Don’t we know!.

• NASA losses AUD $420 million Global Warming Satellite …. what a waste of money

Agmates

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

• Business Opportunity, Instant Cash Flow, Create a Substantial Off Farm Income … Agmates Authorized Representatives

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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G’day Agmates. Bit slow today. Attending to some very important matters in relation to our community site.

Will add to this during the day.

One of our members has suggested that we make it easier and clearer where the members can post your own info and bring up your own topics. So you’ll see a link below to Today’s Agmates Members & Readers forum.

Click on that and it will take you to the daily forum where you can post your own info and others can make comments on your comments etc.

• Todays Agmates Members & Readers Forum

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• All the weather from weather zone.

• The best Weather related news coverage in Australia

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Agmates Editorial

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Are we turning into a nation of sooks?

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

Australia Today

• Kevin Rudd ‘must explain $8 billion missing from Building Australia Fund’ … Developing

• Fran Bailey calls on PM to cut funding to State Gov’s who refuse to do controlled burns

• Wildlife the silent victims of deadly fires

• Early QLD election call deserves kick in shins …. Mike Steketee

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Rural

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Agmates

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

• Business Opportunity, Instant Cash Flow, Create a Substantial Off Farm Income … Agmates Authorized Representatives

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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G’day Agmates. Welcome to another week.

Thanks to our dedicated IT team and our new friends at JS-Kit the new commenting system is up and running and boy is it good.

You our members now have as much publishing power as we do here on the Agmates News. You can upload photos, video and edit your text. This is the most advanced blogging technology in the world and best of all its simple quick and very easy to use.

Our IT team will be working over the next couple of days to ‘pretty up’ the appearance for you all.

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• All the weather from weather zone.

• The best weather related news coverage in Australia

Agmates Editorial

Agmates Editorial

• After 10Years of Labor, 7 Years of boom, QLD’s Economy is Rooted

• Are we turning into a nation of sooks?

• Free Speech in Rural Australia … sorry lessons from the NQ Floods.

Australia Today

• Aussies saving more with gloomy economy
  .. thanks to Agmate Rowell Walton

• Front Page The Australian – ETS to butcher farm output and earnings … see what the Rudd Government is going to do to rural Australia

Climate Change Minister Penny Wong blasts the Greens , tells them to 'Get Real', Click on photo by Photo Rob Homer - to read this article in the Sydney Morning Herald

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• Australians in dark on emissions effort

• Permits spark meat prices alarm

• John Hewson -  Costello too lazy and gutless to be leader

• St Mary’s: Priest’s support rattles church

• Australian property sales slide to record low

• Communities Near Melbourne prepare to flee fires

• League great Dale Shearer fighting for his life after car crash

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World

• Soros say economic ‘turbulence’ worse than great depression

• Drought to cut off federal water to Californian farms

• Animal activists arrested for allegedly harassing research scientists

• Beijing’s Olympic building boom becomes a bust

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Rural

• VIC Farmers face more pain as cash dries up

• Good rain lines Northern NSW producers up for top winter

• Murray-Darling Basin water buyback ebbs away

• Agriculture tipped to help Qld out of massive deficit

• Flood impact on beef not known until mid-year: Burke

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Agmates

• Qld Now The Only State In Australia That Does Not Have AAA Credit Rating … Lawrence Springborg

Click on Photo to read - Senator Barnaby Joyce writes - Stimulus Package and After That There’s No Money For Anything.

• Kevin Rudd’s $42b Stimulus Package – I’m Not Stimulated … John Mikkelsen

• What Is An Economic Stimulus Payment?

• Carbon Sequestration With Tropical Pastures

• Business Opportunity, Instant Cash Flow, Create a Substantial Off Farm Income … Agmates Authorized Representatives

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Entertainment

• Online Suduko & Crosswords

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