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31 Jan 2005 | Graziers woo city investors in breeding cattle
Two graziers in South Australia have created the Beef Stock Market, in which they intend that outsiders can invest in individual cattle and keep track of them by using radio frequency identification device, or RFID, technology. ...... FULL STORY
31 Jan 2005 | Aquaculture licencees in a stink over fees
Yabby, fish and crustacean producers in Victoria are angry at four-fold increases in licence fees, with the cost of some licences having risen by up to $2,000. ...... FULL STORY
31 Jan 2005 | Skills shortage a headache for remote employers
A shortage of skilled and unskilled labour in the resources industry and in remote regions is making operations difficult for many employers. ...... FULL STORY
31 Jan 2005 | Crop production lifts off
Agriculture has bounced back strongly from the drought, with a 12 per cent increase in the value of production to $36.6 billion in 2003/04, the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures estimate. ...... FULL STORY
31 Jan 2005 | Milk recovery takes its time
Milk production in Australia is still struggling to recover from the drought. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jan 2005 | Riverland citrus growers earn fruit-fly concession
Citrus growers in the Riverland region of South Australia have secured a select status as a fruit fly-free area with quarantine authorities in Japan. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jan 2005 | GM ban challenged in the west
The Liberal and National coalition in Western Australia said it may overturn a ban on growing genetically modified crops in the state, if elected to government. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jan 2005 | Yields ease as wine production revives
Wine producers and exporters are earning less for their wine. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jan 2005 | WA wheat growers target AWB export monopoly
The Pastoralists & Graziers Association in Western Australia is renewing a push to withdraw wheat grown in WA from the national wheat export monopoly controlled by AWB. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jan 2005 | Tight supply favours Aussie dairy farmers
World dairy prices are increasing as the tight balance between supply and demand on the global market intensifies, according to Dairy Australia. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jan 2005 | Fonterra may offer more for National Foods
New Zealand's Fonterra may yet seek to pay more for dairy processor National Foods than the current best offer from San Miguel. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jan 2005 | Wheat inventories below normal
Wheat prices may rise by as much as 15 per cent this year from a 20 month low last week because global inventories are likely to be below normal, analysts at Commonwealth Bank of Australia said. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jan 2005 | Farmers in a fix over fences
The Victorian Farmers Federation has asked the state government to assist in rebuilding private fencing that borders crown land affected by fires in the north-west of the state. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jan 2005 | Union checks Sunraysia fruit and vegetable farmers
Union officials are visiting northern Victoria farms over the next fortnight to check claims fruit and vegetable pickers are being exploited. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jan 2005 | White wine grapes headed for oversupply
Wine producers expect to buy 10 per cent more grapes from wine grape growers in 2005, but growers cannot expect much improvement in price, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics has forecast. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jan 2005 | San Miguel pledges higher returns to dairy farmers
Philippines food giant San Miguel said it plans to reorient former dairy cooperative National Foods as major exporter of Australian dairy products to Asia. ...... FULL STORY
24 Jan 2005 | Benetton seeks wool from un-mulesed sheep
Italian fashion brand Benetton has changed its mind for a second time in a week, and again demands that Australian wool suppliers only provide it with wool from un-mulesed sheep. ...... FULL STORY
24 Jan 2005 | Citrus board takes on biosecurity role
The Citrus Board of South Australia will lose its marketing functions and may relocate to the Riverland as part of a major overhaul. ...... FULL STORY
24 Jan 2005 | Burn offs the only means to restrict wildfires
Hazard reduction burning was an essential step to reduce the potential for extreme bushfires, a new report by CSIRO concludes. ...... FULL STORY
21 Jan 2005 | Farmers and greens wrangle over land clearing
Farmer organisations and environment lobbies are dissatisfied with a model being used by NSW bureaucrats to guide decisions on which areas of vegetation farmers may clear. ...... FULL STORY
21 Jan 2005 | Another retailer joints wool boycott
Georges, a British clothing chain ultimately owned by the US chain Wal-Mart will join the boycott of wool products sourced from farms that practice mulesing. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jan 2005 | Brownes dairy may be on the market
New Zealand dairy cooperative Fonterra will have to sell one of two milk plants in Western Australia, and make undertakings to the competition watchdog, in order to proceed with its takeover bid for dairy producer National Foods. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jan 2005 | Fosters poised to axe Rothbury Estate
The Rothbury Estate vineyard in the Hunter Valley could be closed if Foster's swallows Southcorp. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jan 2005 | Fosters will close some Southcorp wineries
Fosters would cut the number of wineries operated by itself and Southcorp from 16 to less than half that number, under a plan to operate a handful of mega-wineries if Fosters succeeds in taking over its target. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jan 2005 | Quarantine shuts door on weed imports
Loopholes in quarantine laws that allow the import of thousands of weed species to be imported will be closed by May, the nation's quarantine watchdog Biosecurity Australia said. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jan 2005 | Canker scare eases for some citrus growers
A surveillance operation to detect citrus canker in the Gayndah/Mundubbera zone of Queensland has so far failed to find any suspicious samples. ...... FULL STORY
18 Jan 2005 | Wine industry faces oversupply
Grapes are in excess supply, with many wineries including Orlando Wyndham and McGuigan Simeon Wines reviewing supply contracts. ...... FULL STORY
18 Jan 2005 | Grain receival forecast lowered again
GrainCorp said that it reduced its forecast for winter crops receivals for 2004/05 at nine million tonnes, or 500,000 tonnes lower than its most recent estimate. ...... FULL STORY
18 Jan 2005 | Lamb exports fatten
Meat and Livestock Australia said that lamb exports for 2004 totalled 111,600 tonnes, the second highest level of exports on record, and 340 tonnes shy of the record set in 2000. ...... FULL STORY
17 Jan 2005 | Lamb a prime option for sheep farmers
The wool industry may be stagnant, but prices for prime lambs continue to bloom. ABARE has forecast that for the first half of this year that lamb will average 365 cents per kilogram at the saleyards. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jan 2005 | AWB makes fourth payment on last season’s wheat crop
AWB in the last week paid the fourth distribution from the 2003/04 wheat crop. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jan 2005 | Lower grain prices in store for late harvests
ABB, AWB and GrainCorp have begun to close grain pools in some ports and receiving zones, with the expected priced to be paid on some replacement pools already at a discount of $15 a tonne to the estimated price on the number one pool. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jan 2005 | Saudi market opening may revive live sheep trade
The export of live sheep from Australia fell by 23 per cent to 3.6 million sheep over the numbers exported in 2003, while the level was 40 per cent below that recorded in 2002. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jan 2005 | Orchardists qualify for soft loans
Seventy orchardists and vineyard owners whose crops were affected by hailstorms in December will be eligible for natural disaster assistance from the New South Wales government. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jan 2005 | Record crush beckons for wine producers
The wine grape harvest in Australia looks like it will be a record, with estimates for the harvest ranging from 1.9 million tonnes to 2.2 million tonnes. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jan 2005 | Grazier no longer in the clear after more trees felled
A Queensland grazier may be resentenced over illegal clearing of land protected by a world heritage listing, after it emerged that a land swap worked out as part of an earlier plea and sentence had also been cleared. ...... FULL STORY
12 Jan 2005 | Cattle breeders achieve record prices
Cattle breeders received record prices in a number of sale categories at auctions in Victoria over the last week, with record prices for beef weaners and also a record price average for steers. ...... FULL STORY
12 Jan 2005 | Dry spell for Queensland
Queensland’s farmers can expect a higher likelihood of drier than normal conditions for the three months to the end of March. ...... FULL STORY
11 Jan 2005 | WA grain harvest wraps up early
Western Australian grain harvest has drawn to a close with 10.6 million tonnes delivered into the Consolidated Bulk Handling receival network during the 2004/05 summer, making it the fifth largest harvest on record for the state. ...... FULL STORY
11 Jan 2005 | NFF chief quits
National Farmers’ Federation chief executive, Anna Cronin, resigned from the organisation to pursue other business interests. ...... FULL STORY
11 Jan 2005 | Cattle Council primed for an export record
The Cattle Council said that it expected beef exports in 2005 to exceed the 2004 record of $4 billion, with Japan the primary destination. ...... FULL STORY
11 Jan 2005 | Western farmers shun private traders
Managers of Western Australia’s Grain Pool say they have been unable to sell all the grain they expect to receive from farmers at an optimum price... ...... FULL STORY
11 Jan 2005 | Fishermen trawl for federal help
Trawler fishermen operating the south-east fishery are lobbying the federal government to buy back half their licences, to reduce the number of trawlers from 110 to about 50 or 60. ...... FULL STORY
10 Jan 2005 | Big wet helps northern
Northern New South Wales is experiencing its biggest summer planting season in five years, thanks to rains in late November and early December. ...... FULL STORY
10 Jan 2005 | The waygu to beef for $1200 a kilo
A Blue Mountains farmer is exporting a lucrative beef sourced from Japanese waygu cattle, in a niche export business that is akin to selling coals to Newcastle. ...... FULL STORY
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