This year's crop of Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management graduates from Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Orange will feature more pony-tails than stubble, reflecting the fact that more women are joining the industry than ever before.

A passion for agriculture and a desire to promote the industry has seen CSU students Ms Eliza Star and Ms Hannah Schulz awarded prestigious Horizon Scholarships.

A survey of groundwater users in the Namoi catchment in northern NSW by CSU researchers has found that more than 75 percent feel they are not able to adapt to further cuts in ground and surface water entitlements as suggested by the Murray Darling Basin Authority.

The ability of a staple food crop, such as rice, to cope with climate change is under investigation in specially designed growth chambers at CSU in Wagga Wagga.

The highly anticipated draft plan setting out how water will be managed in the Murray Darling Basin will be released on Monday 28 November and CSU has commentators available to provide analysis.

The NSW O’Farrell government is due to bring down its first budget since the Coalition won office at the March state election. CSU has experienced commentators to provide analysis of the budget and what it means for the communities of regional NSW.

A CSU research team is monitoring the effects on what could be the largest intended release of water ever used to maintain the ecological health of the Murrumbidgee River that flows across southern NSW.

A group of CSU agriculture students from Wagga Wagga will soon swap the wide open plains of the Riverina for the rice paddies and mixed farms of Vietnam.

A leading CSU researcher has called for caution amid a recent newspaper report claiming efforts to mitigate carbon emissions in the Murray-Darling Basin could be ‘damaged’ by proposed cuts to irrigation in favour of returning water to the rivers.