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31 Mar 2004 | Plan to unite grain industry
A report on Australia's grain industry, released last week, says the industry must become more integrated if it's to maximise opportunities in global markets. ...... FULL STORY
31 Mar 2004 | Dairy co-op on outer as farmers vent GM fury
The Victorian Government's decision to extend the ban on genetically modified crops for an additional four years has sparked strong criticism from farmers, grain groups and biotechnology companies. ...... FULL STORY
30 Mar 2004 | WA review of freed-up grain exports
A review has begun of Western Australia's partially deregulated grain export trading, which resulted in almost 20 per cent of last harvest's canola, barley and lupins being traded outside the Grain Pool monopoly. ...... FULL STORY
29 Mar 2004 | WA fox baiting starts in earnest
Western Australian landholders are stepping up their campaign against foxes, with 28 Dumbleyung farmers from 35 properties collecting a total of 600 1080 baits last week. ...... FULL STORY
26 Mar 2004 | Sugar industry slams think-tank's call for no govt aid
Canegrowers and Sugar 2020 have criticised a report by the Centre for Independent Studies which called for an end to industry rescue plans by the Government. ...... FULL STORY
26 Mar 2004 | Vic Govt extends GM ban and is accused of backward step
The Victorian Government has extended its ban on commercial genetically modified crop planting until 2008, but will consider applications to run small research trials. ...... FULL STORY
25 Mar 2004 | Sugar farm handouts will 'entrench inefficiencies'
The proposed $240 million sugar industry rescue package will entrench inefficient farmers and provide wealthy operators with a taxpayer-funded handout, according to a Centre for Independent Studies report. ...... FULL STORY
25 Mar 2004 | Last of the doggers
In Western Australia there is only a handful of doggers left - once there were 20 or 30 who roamed the state's wheatbelt. ...... FULL STORY
25 Mar 2004 | Wandering wheat finds a buyer
Four shiploads of Australian wheat, rejected by Pakistan for allegedly being contaminated with karnal bunt fungus, have been sold to Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2004 | Farmers, Monsanto slam WA GM ban
Farmers and Monsanto have criticised the Western Australian Government's decision to ban genetically modified crops. ...... FULL STORY
24 Mar 2004 | Rain-shy Show runs for cover
Sydney's Royal Easter Show starts next Friday, and for the first time the Royal Agriculture Society has taken out a weather derivative insurance policy to cut its losses if the Easter four-day long weekend is particularly wet. ...... FULL STORY
23 Mar 2004 | GM crops banned from WA
The Western Australian Government yesterday announced that no genetically modified food crops will be grown in the state until at least 2006. ...... FULL STORY
22 Mar 2004 | Hatching a locust horror
Although they're not officially a plague, the swarms of locusts now chewing their way through western New South Wales threaten to be a big danger to crops, pastures and the farm economy by next Spring. ...... FULL STORY
19 Mar 2004 | NSW farmers promised legal protection over GM
No genetically modified food crops will be planted in New South Wales until farmers are given legal protection against possible contamination, the State Agriculture Minister said yesterday. ...... FULL STORY
19 Mar 2004 | Sugar plan a betrayal, farmers say
A breakaway group of cane farmers has condemned the $600 million industry rescue plan put forward by the peak farming lobby Canegrowers and employers' group the Australian Sugar Millers' Association. ...... FULL STORY
18 Mar 2004 | Grain export threat
Australia's reputation as a world-quality grain exporter is under threat on two fronts: the US has sold more than 100,000 tonnes of subsidised wheat to Iraq... ...... FULL STORY
18 Mar 2004 | Locust plague to continue
A swarm of locusts hit the New South Wales town of Dubbo this week and experts say that more are on the way within a few days. ...... FULL STORY
15 Mar 2004 | Growers turn back on ethanol handout
Federal Government funds for the expansion of Australia's ethanol industry have failed to excite Queensland's cane growers, with only two of 38 applications for grants for sugar-based projects to date. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2004 | Cane growers battle to fight off fire sales
Canegrowing land values are significantly down compared with five years ago, but there's little data to substantiate the view - transactions have almost ground to a halt over the past six months. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2004 | AWB shrugs off Pakistan rejection
AWB Ltd predicted yesterday it would sell an additional 5 million tonnes of grain to Asia over the next five years, on top of the 5 million tonnes already being exported to that region. ...... FULL STORY
12 Mar 2004 | Councils discuss GM crops
A forum of Victorian local government council representatives, to be held in Creswick this weekend, will discuss genetically modified crops. ...... FULL STORY
11 Mar 2004 | Boardroom battle looms at AWB
AWB Ltd director Laurie Marshall will battle for his board seat today when WA wheat growers vote at the company's annual meeting in Melbourne. ...... FULL STORY
11 Mar 2004 | Plant disease discovery solves rusty problem
CSIRO Plant Industry has discovered a gene that is the "Achilles heel" of rust, a common disease of plants. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2004 | Vaile urges wheat tests
Australia's Trade Minister, Mark Vaile, has demanded independent tests of two wheat shipments rejected by Pakistan a fortnight ago and now stranded off Karachi. ...... FULL STORY
10 Mar 2004 | New ally for single desk
Ten grain growers from NSW, Victorian and Queensland have joined to form a lobby group to support AWB (International) Ltd's management of the wheat single desk. ...... FULL STORY
8 Mar 2004 | Pakistanis again reject our wheat
Pakistan has again rejected two shipments of Australian wheat, stranded off Karachi, labelling them "unhygienic". ...... FULL STORY
8 Mar 2004 | Huge potential for water-efficient wheat
Independent field trials of a Graingene-bred water-efficient wheat variety have shown it has the potential to add millions of dollars to the value of the NSW wheat crop. ...... FULL STORY
8 Mar 2004 | Cane growers 'must settle for less'
The Prime Minister met with sugar industry representatives and cane growers over the weekend in Cairns and Mackay. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2004 | Humble spud wins blue chip status
Tasmania sealed its crown as Australia's potato state yesterday when Simplot opened a $35 million expansion to its Ulverstone french fry processing capacity. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2004 | US can impose tariff on beef forever
The fine print of the free trade agreement reveals that the US can place tariffs on Australian beef and horticultural exports for an indefinite period. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2004 | Wheat disease claims to be put to test
Australian officials will try this week to resolve the impasse with Pakistan over two shipments of wheat said to have the fungal disease karnal bunt. ...... FULL STORY
5 Mar 2004 | Tassie fee for 1080 use
Landholders in Tasmania will have to pay a fee from next week for using 1080 to control browsing animals. ...... FULL STORY
3 Mar 2004 | Cane farmers get a $26m sweetener
The Federal Government will extend sugarcane farmers a $26 million lifeline, as the first part of a compensation package for their being excluded from the Australia-US FTA. ...... FULL STORY
3 Mar 2004 | Pollen find could lift canola fortunes
A team of scientists at La Trobe University has developed a way to produce canola hybrids that could lift yields by up to almost one-third. ...... FULL STORY
2 Mar 2004 | Sugar growers reach deal on restructure
Queensland's 6,000 sugarcane growers and the State Government reached agreement yesterday on the restructuring of the industry. ...... FULL STORY
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