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29 Jun 2007 | Fruit and veg becoming scarce
The price of fruit and vegetables may triple due to extreme weather conditions across much of the south-eastern parts of Australia. ...... FULL STORY
29 Jun 2007 | Not enough water to go round
A report by the National Water Commission has found that a lack of co-ordination between the states and territories has resulted in double counting of supplies. ...... FULL STORY
29 Jun 2007 | WA mill open for business
Negotiations are yet to be completed, but it looks like the Kununnura sugar mill in WA will be processing this year's crop. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jun 2007 | New president to streamline wine industry
David Clarke, previously chairman of Macquarie Bank, has been appointed as the new president of the Winemakers Federation of Australia. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jun 2007 | Goulburn wet at last
After one of the worst droughts in recorded history residents in the Goulburn area of NSW were yesterday preparing for a second night of storms. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jun 2007 | US lags on cattle ID
The US is years away from reaching the same cattle identification standards that have been implemented in Australia. ...... FULL STORY
28 Jun 2007 | Victoria gains water concessions
Victoria is closer to signing up for the federal $10.5 billion Murray-Darling water plan following discussions between the state premier Steve Bracks and the Prime Minister John Howard yesterday. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jun 2007 | Sun to shine longer in NSW
The daylight saving period in NSW will be extended by four weeks in alignment with the other states. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jun 2007 | Plenty of grain, not enough trains
Concerns are being raised that with the expected bumper grain crop in NSW and Victoria this year the transport infrastructure will not be up to the task. ...... FULL STORY
27 Jun 2007 | US reviewing farm subsidies
With the Unites States government considering extending, and in some cases increasing subsidies to American farmers, Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has gone to the US to argue Australia’s case. ...... FULL STORY
26 Jun 2007 | Deluge spoils sugar
Heavy rains in the East Kimberly area have spoiled any chance of sugar growers beginning their harvest before mid-July. ...... FULL STORY
26 Jun 2007 | Winery looks for another way out
Winemaker Evans and Tate is now considering merging with the West Australian business Ferngrove Vineyards to solve their financial troubles. ...... FULL STORY
26 Jun 2007 | Broadband a priority for bush
Research by Central Queensland University has found that businesses in rural Queensland would pay up to $115 per month for a broadband service at 1.5 Mbps and another $86 per month on top of that for speeds of 28 Mbps. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jun 2007 | Financial support only a call away
Agribusiness customers of the Commonwealth Bank now have a new service option with the opening of its call centre at Wagga Wagga. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jun 2007 | River has a bad side
Farmers who live on opposite sides of the Murray river are finding that they are being treated very differently by their respective state governments. ...... FULL STORY
25 Jun 2007 | Residents refuse to be moved
Residents of the town of Wittenoom in West Australia are refusing to go despite pressure from the state government. ...... FULL STORY
22 Jun 2007 | Wheat marketing different but the same
Changes to the Wheat Marketing Act were passed by parliament yesterday. ...... FULL STORY
22 Jun 2007 | Global trade talks stumble
Talks to review farm tariffs between four of the World Trade Organisation's most powerful members yesterday failed due to a lack of agreement on farm subsidies. ...... FULL STORY
22 Jun 2007 | NZ apples held up again
The Senate's Rural and Regional Affairs committee, which is investigating the risks involved in importing apples from New Zealand, has disagreed with Biosecurity Australia's (BA) assessment... ...... FULL STORY
21 Jun 2007 | Relief for Hunter grape growers
The flood that dumped up to 300mm on the Hunter region last week does have a bright side. ...... FULL STORY
21 Jun 2007 | Still no water, even after rain
While areas of the country have been flooded with heavy rainfalls over the past two weeks, the news is not so good for those relying on the Murray Darling system. ...... FULL STORY
21 Jun 2007 | Counting 'food miles'
Meat and Livestock Australia is undertaking a project to quantify the resources required to produce meat, including water and energy. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jun 2007 | Bumper crops for NSW
Record crops have been sown in NSW covering an area of 6.2 million hectares and production should be up to 11.44 million tonnes. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jun 2007 | Dry persists in WA and Queensland
While conditions in NSW and Victoria have improved significantly, farmers in WA and Queensland are still hoping for better rainfalls to boost their production. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jun 2007 | Agforce holds out on water plan
Attempts yesterday by the federal Environment and Water Resources Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, to calm concerns of farmers that metering would be introduced on stock and domestic bores have failed. ...... FULL STORY
20 Jun 2007 | More pain for AWB
US wheat growers have launched a third class action against AWB over the Iraq kickbacks scandal. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jun 2007 | Sugar mill stand-off
The West Australian state government has said that it will not increase its $4 million offer to help local growers buy the struggling Kununura sugar mill but the offer has been rejected as insufficient by the mill owners. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jun 2007 | Winemaker seeks cash injection
Wine group Evans & Tate has announced a restructure plan that would raise $61.7 million by issuing new shares at a low price of between 5 and 9.5 cents each. ...... FULL STORY
19 Jun 2007 | NSW farmers not convinced on water plan
Now NSW farmers have joined their Queensland colleagues in their concerns about the detail of the Murray-Darling basin water management plan. ...... FULL STORY
18 Jun 2007 | Water bank to outbid government
Murray Irrigation, the largest Murray River irrigation company, is planning to establish a 'water bank' where it would outbid the government for water that farmers want to sell and then lend the water back to the farmers... ...... FULL STORY
18 Jun 2007 | Water plan stalled again
Just when the federal government was close to gaining approval from Victoria for the $10 billion water plan, Queensland farmers have said that they cannot support the scheme. ...... FULL STORY
18 Jun 2007 | Irrigator allocations dry up
Irrigators in South Australia will only receive 1 per cent of their water allocation for July which is only enough for basic activities such as pest spraying. ...... FULL STORY
15 Jun 2007 | GM gets the go-ahead
The Office of Gene Technology has given approval for Australia’s first trial of GM wheat. ...... FULL STORY
15 Jun 2007 | Sugar not so sweet
Plummeting prices on the world sugar market is going to make life even harder for already struggling cane growers. ...... FULL STORY
14 Jun 2007 | Wheat export watchdog gets teeth
The wheat industry regulator is to be strengthened under legislation to be introduced into Parliament today. ...... FULL STORY
13 Jun 2007 | Floods but none for Murray
While heavy rains have flooded parts of NSW most has missed the catchment areas of the Murray-Darling Basin, however some areas of the catchment did receive up to 100mm. ...... FULL STORY
12 Jun 2007 | Slow acceptance for new phone
With Telstra planning to shut down its CDMA network by January 2008 it is trying to get more rural mobile users to take up the LG550 handset with improved reception capabilities. ...... FULL STORY
12 Jun 2007 | Ord sugar future on hold
Despite the Western Australian government having called for expressions of interest last September for development that would double the irrigation area in the Ord, no announcements have yet been made. ...... FULL STORY
8 Jun 2007 | Wine grape harvest down 25 per cent
Australia’s wine grape harvest has fallen 25 per cent to the lowest level in a decade but the industry is set to eclipse export volumes. ...... FULL STORY
8 Jun 2007 | Wild weather brings rain to eastern states
A low-pressure system is intensifying off the east coast of Australia bringing the promise of more rain. ...... FULL STORY
8 Jun 2007 | Carbon scheme may skew investment
It seems that farmers will be excluded form any carbon trading scheme initially due to the difficulty in measuring emissions from agriculture. ...... FULL STORY
7 Jun 2007 | Cancer fighting avocados
While research has found that there is a toxin in avocados that kills breast cancer cells it is not as easy as eating more avocadoes. ...... FULL STORY
7 Jun 2007 | Nuts expanding
A new walnut processing plant is to be built in the Riverina region by Webster, an agribusiness company. ...... FULL STORY
7 Jun 2007 | Production still struggling
With prospects of irrigators being denied water for the first time unless significant rains fall, production could slip even lower than the past year. ...... FULL STORY
6 Jun 2007 | Drought keeps deficit high
The Australian current account deficit remains in the red due to the effects of the drought and infrastructure bottlenecks. ...... FULL STORY
6 Jun 2007 | Tax on compo clearer soon
The question of whether compensation payments to irrigators who lose water rights are taxed as income or capital gains seems close to resolution. ...... FULL STORY
6 Jun 2007 | Victoria warmer and wetter
Temperatures in Victoria were 2-3 degrees above average overnight and 2 degrees above average in the day, setting new records. ...... FULL STORY
6 Jun 2007 | Dairy reconsiders GM
With a review of Victoria's moratorium on GM canola under way the Network of Concerned Farmers is taking out advertisements to warn dairy farmers that they risk losing market if they feed their cows GM crops. ...... FULL STORY
5 Jun 2007 | Anti-clearing laws cause pain
Farmers say that clearing laws which penalise them to allow Australia to meet greenhouse gas obligations are the reason they are now threatening to cut down trees. ...... FULL STORY
5 Jun 2007 | Victoria gains water guarantee
We are one step closer to the introduction of the federal government’s plan for national management of the Murray-Darling water system after Victoria yesterday secured water rights for their farmers until 2019. ...... FULL STORY
5 Jun 2007 | Tax breaks end for timber companies
Managed Investment Scheme companies share prices have slid over the past year due to the government ending tax deductions for non-forestry MIS investments from next year. ...... FULL STORY
4 Jun 2007 | Water relief but still not enough
River flows are increasing in the Murray-Darling system following heavy rains over the past few weeks in the Victorian alpine region. ...... FULL STORY
4 Jun 2007 | Grape growers don't want pulp
Grape growers in the Coonawarra region of South Australia are concerned that their water allocations could be under threat if a proposed pulp mill project goes ahead. ...... FULL STORY
4 Jun 2007 | Food or fuel, not both
Not enough crops are produced to supply our needs for both food and bio-fuel, according to the latest issue of the Australian Farm Institute’s Farm Policy Journal. ...... FULL STORY
1 Jun 2007 | Reef under pressure
The Great Barrier Reef is being damaged by farming practices resulting in too many nutrients with areas of inshore reef dying and algae more prevalent. ...... FULL STORY
1 Jun 2007 | Pipeline gets funding
The threat to water supplies on the NSW Central Coast is to be addressed by a promise from the federal government to invest $80 million in a water pipeline. ...... FULL STORY
1 Jun 2007 | GrainCorp looks to coal
GrainCorp has posted a half-year profit of $5.5 million which was 71 per cent down on the previous period but higher than expected. ...... FULL STORY
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