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31 Mar 2009 | Beef producers look to South America for AI technology
Northern Australia''s beef industry is set to follow South America and meet a producer-backed demand to take advantage of performance tested animals to improve herd productivity and profitability says Professor Gabriel Bo... ...... FULL STORY
31 Mar 2009 | Red meat goes green
Coinciding with the popular worldwide ''Earth Hour'' event last Saturday, 28 March, Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) launched a campaign to promote the environmental credentials of the Australian sheep and cattle industry. ...... FULL STORY
30 Mar 2009 | GM wheat yields up 20 per cent
Trials of genetically modified wheat in drought stressed areas of Victoria are showing yield improvements of about twenty per cent over non-GM varieties. ...... FULL STORY
30 Mar 2009 | Iconic top end cattle station is a white elephant
The Australian Agricultural Company''s purchase of the high profile top end cattle properties Tipperary and Litchfield Stations continues to be opposed by some shareholders despite an independent consultants report recommending that... ...... FULL STORY
27 Mar 2009 | Aussies going back to their local butcher
More Australian consumers are buying their meat from their local butcher rather than the supermarket according to data collected by Roy Morgan Research. ...... FULL STORY
27 Mar 2009 | Hay buyers hoping for greener pastures
Twenty five to fifty centimetres of rain has improved pastures south of the Great Dividing Range in Victoria and into South Australia''s lower southeast. Bigger falls have been recorded in northern Tasmania, between Burnie and Launceston. ...... FULL STORY
26 Mar 2009 | Drought bus helps with Centrelink payments
Centrelink''s Drought Bus is touring central western NSW towns providing information on drought assistance measures to farmers and local residents. ...... FULL STORY
26 Mar 2009 | AWB denies selling farmer''s debts
AWB has issued a strong denial of a recent report in the Australian Financial review that it had sold off $2.3 billion worth of loans it has made to farmers. ...... FULL STORY
26 Mar 2009 | Grains chief sees good times ahead
Charlton grain grower Russell Amery will become the new president of the Grains Group of the Victorian Farmers Federation today. ...... FULL STORY
25 Mar 2009 | Cattle prices reach $1.70kg
Cattle prices last week reached their highest level so far this year led by the southern saleyards, over-the-hooks and export categories. Meat and Livestock Australia said prices were being pushed up by a 14 per cent tightening in supply. ...... FULL STORY
25 Mar 2009 | Tandou sells water for profit
Big Darling River irrigator Tandou Limited has posted an $11.5 million profit after selling its'' water rights for $34 million. Tandou has sold much of its vineyards and wineries and scaled back production during the dry years. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2009 | King Island meatworks shut down
King Island''s abattoir has been closed by owners Swift Australia pending a review of its operations. One hundred employees have been stood down. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2009 | Port delays hurting Aussie wheat exports
Australia''s three biggest wheat customers – Indonesia, Japan and South Korea – have all raised concerns about long port delays in Western Australia that are holding up wheat shipments. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2009 | Irrigators selling water to cities
Cities and governments are buying up water entitlements from irrigators leading to concerns that some communities could lose jobs *or* eventually disappear if their water rights are completely sold off. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2009 | AWB looks for partners as market share plummets
AWB’s share of the Australian wheat export market has fallen from seventy five per cent to 20 per cent since the market was opened up to competition. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2009 | Minister powerless to stop illegal clearing
The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act is weak and ineffective at protecting native vegetation according to a senate committee report. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2009 | NSW irrigators exporting water to VIC, SA
More than half of all water used in the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers was traded in 2007-08, with 1298 billion litres traded on the temporary market. ...... FULL STORY
20 Mar 2009 | Farm incomes to rise, except wine and dairy
Farm production is expected to rise by ten per cent in the financial year 2008-09, driven up by a 47 per cent lift in the winter crop output according to NAB''s agribusiness economist Frank Drum. ...... FULL STORY
20 Mar 2009 | Packer sells out of top end cattle
London based private equity firm Terra Firma has reached an agreement with the Packer family''s Consolidated Pastoral Holdings to buy 90 per cent of CPC''s grazing assets in northern Australia. ...... FULL STORY
20 Mar 2009 | Demand for good food growing strongly
Demand from developing nations for protein based and healthy, high quality food is increasing exponentially. ...... FULL STORY
20 Mar 2009 | Listed Agri falls back in line
Australia''s listed agribusiness sector weakened for the second consecutive month according to recently-released data by the Commonwealth Bank. ...... FULL STORY
19 Mar 2009 | Adelaide wheat price soars
Adelaide wheat prices have risen more than $60/tonne since the first week in February as traders actively bid for milling wheat to export. Prices in Victoria and NSW have remained stable *or* are slightly up by about $10/tonne. ...... FULL STORY
19 Mar 2009 | Victoria defiant on water buybacks
The Victorian government will fight any attempt by other states to loosen its tight four per cent limit on water trading out of irrigation districts. ...... FULL STORY
18 Mar 2009 | GrainCorp restructures for competitive market
GrainCorp will combine its current storage and logistics divisions into six new regions, Queensland, Northern NSW, Central NSW, Southern NSW, Eastern Victoria and Western Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
18 Mar 2009 | Beef exports surge
Beef exports are expected to rise by 3.4 per cent in 2009 to one million tonnes of meat said Meat & Livestock Australia''s chief analyst Peter Weeks. ...... FULL STORY
17 Mar 2009 | Government delays as rivers dry up
Total water storage in the Murray Darling system was 1,470 gigalitres in January, well below the average of 5400 gigalitres and just 16 per cent of capacity. ...... FULL STORY
16 Mar 2009 | Tough times ahead for wine growers
Competition on international wine markets is expected to cut into wine industry profits as competition from New Zealand, the EU and the US intensifies. ...... FULL STORY
16 Mar 2009 | Wheat exports to Iraq set to resume
Iraq signalled last week that it wants to resume buying large amounts of Australian wheat. Iraqi trade minister Abdul-Falah Al-Sudani told Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean that Iraq may soon take up to one million tonnes of Australian wheat. ...... FULL STORY
16 Mar 2009 | Russia back in the beef market
Australian beef exports to Russia totalled 681 tonnes in February, with chuck and blade accounting for 51 per cent, silverside 23 per cent and manufacturing product six per cent. ...... FULL STORY
13 Mar 2009 | Sugar and wool buck the downward trend
The outlook for world grain, beef, dairy, wool and export wine prices is bleak whilst the forecasts for lamb and sugar is positive according to Rabobank. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2009 | Dairy prices subdued for next five years
ABARE has forecast local milk prices will stay subdued for five years, reaching just 35c/kg in 2013-14 because of falling demand, rising supply and EU subsidies. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2009 | More trouble for big beef exporter
A total of 120 full-time and 40 contract positions are to be axed from the Harvey Beef meat works south of Perth. The big beef exporter said boning operations at Fremantle will be leased out. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2009 | Live export cattle to soften in 2009
Australia exported 870,000 live cattle valued at $644 million in 2008 according to Mike Finucan from Meat and Livestock Australia, a 20 percent increase from 2007. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2009 | Govt cash for farmers in your account now
The federal government’s Farmers Hardship Payment of $950 will be paid to farmers automatically by Centrelink in the fortnight commencing 24 March 2009 who on 3 February 2009 were in receipt of... ...... FULL STORY
11 Mar 2009 | Dairy prices forecast to keep falling
The Australian and New Zealand dairy industries are especially affected by the slump in the global dairy trade because a majority of the industry''s produce is exported. ...... FULL STORY
11 Mar 2009 | Dairy farmers to for carbon from July
Farmers could be slugged by about $7,000 a year as emissions costs of at least $30 million a year are imposed on Murray Goulburn and Fonterra Australia from next year. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2009 | Cattle farmers miss out on meat mark-ups
Meat processors margins have declined by thirty per cent as the hide market has crashed. Retail meat sales in poorer suburbs are struggling for business, but some butchers are reporting that retail demand is improving as families choose to eat at home. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2009 | Politicians weigh up trees vs farms
Eight million hectares planted to trees would help deliver a cut of 150 million tonnes in carbon by 2020 says the CSIRO according to opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2009 | Dairy appeals to Valad fund
Valad Property Group, a fund manager, is buying up dairy farms in Victoria and is looking for investors to help buy more. Valencia Creek, a 600 hectare farm north of Maffra is one of three farms bought so far. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2009 | Dust drifts over horticulture
The scarcity of irrigation water is crippling horticulture in the Murray Darling basin. Hundreds of thousands of fruit trees have been pulled out, rice production has plunged by 93 per cent and vineyards lie abandoned. ...... FULL STORY
9 Mar 2009 | Exotic produce sells well
"New" farm products may be a growth industry. Game birds, goat meat and Asian vegetables are among farm industries now worth almost $1 billion, a study commissioned by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation found. ...... FULL STORY
6 Mar 2009 | Wheat exports threatened by port delays
Delays at Australian ports are forcing international wheat buyers to look elsewhere to ensure they don’t run out of wheat. ...... FULL STORY
6 Mar 2009 | River Murray to go to High Court
The South Australian government is preparing a constitutional challenge to the barriers put in place to limit water trading on the Murray and its tributaries upstream by other states, in particular Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2009 | Government spends up on soil carbon
The federal government will spend nearly $32 million to research soil carbon and nitrous oxide emissions in Australian agriculture. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2009 | Trees to take over under carbon trading
Large areas of NSW and Queensland are expected to become economically viable for environmental forests under emissions trading. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2009 | Meat prices to rise with demand
Chicken remains Australia''s favourite meat, followed by beef then lamb and pork. The average retail price of beef will rise from $15.55/kg now to $17/kg in 2013. ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2009 | Crop exports up as dairy prices crash
Wheat, barley, canola, lupins, peas, raw cotton, sugar and lamb exports are forecast to rise this year according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Research and Economics (ABARE). ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2009 | Prices flat as wine lake grows
Prices for Australian wine are expected to remain flat for at least five years according to ABARE, as the excess wine ‘lake’ continues to grow despite the drought. ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2009 | Food crisis creates new protectionism
The global food crisis is leading to some countries favouring a return to protectionism to increase their own food security said the minister for agriculture Tony Burke. ...... FULL STORY
4 Mar 2009 | Futuris becomes Elders
Shareholders of Futuris Corporation have voted to change the company''s name to Elders to better reflect the company''s focus on agriculture and primary industry. ...... FULL STORY
3 Mar 2009 | Holden car to boost ethanol industry
Holden is building an ethanol version of the Commodore which could be in production as soon as next year. Up to 25 per cent of Australian cars could be running on ethanol from plant based sources within a few years says GM Australia. ...... FULL STORY
2 Mar 2009 | Better seasons ahead for farmers
Farm product is forecast to grow by 11 per cent this year and 5 per cent next year as non-farm GDP growth slows to 1 per cent according to treasury. ...... FULL STORY
2 Mar 2009 | Cotton yields to improve
Total Australian cotton production for 2008/09 is forecast to be 1.4 million bales, up from the record low of 0.62 million bales produced in 07/08 according to the US Department of Agriculture, but still below the ten year average of 2.4 million bales. ...... FULL STORY
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