It's the harvest-stopping scenario farmers dread: a header sitting idle, tank empty, because a conflict thousands of kilometres away has severed Australia's fuel supply.

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According to farm leaders and national security experts, this isn't a distant threat, it's a critical vulnerability that could see Australian agriculture "grind to a halt in a matter of days".

Former Nationals leader John Anderson and CBA agricultural economist Dennis Voznesenski are warning that Australia's dangerous reliance on imported fuel, fertiliser, and chemicals has left the nation's f

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