In today's National Rural News:  

** A Queensland man walks free and must pay just over $4000 after a major animal welfare case which saw 21 horses put down,

** Plans for a Victorian Central North Renewable Energy Zone have been ditched -  but there are questions about another in the Wimmera,

** and irrigators say they can't advocate to politicians or make meaningful crop decisions with old, delayed or extrapolated ABS data,

Plus the latest from the markets and more. 

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