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30 Sep 2004 | Farm exports slump in August
Australia is finding it harder to sell both farm and manufactured goods overseas. ...... FULL STORY
29 Sep 2004 | AQIS cracks wheat export scam
Quarantine authorities delayed a shipment of 20,000 tonnes of Australian wheat from Fremantle to Indonesia. ...... FULL STORY
29 Sep 2004 | Howard’s spending spree keeps the bush in mind
The coalition government would spray $40 million at funding more weed reduction and would also beef up Australia's quarantine system if re-elected. ...... FULL STORY
28 Sep 2004 | Crop yields lag demand
Global crop yields must soar in coming years or the world will face a grain shortage, Professor Monkombu Swaminathan, one of the pioneers of the green revolution and a winner of the World Food Prize, told a crop conference in Brisbane. ...... FULL STORY
27 Sep 2004 | Grow wheat, not meat
Diets may have to change, and crops may have to replace livestock to lower the amount of water used in growing food. ...... FULL STORY
24 Sep 2004 | Iraq wheat sale tipped
The Australian What Board is rumoured to have beaten the US to a contract to supply 800,000 tonnes of wheat to Iraq. ...... FULL STORY
24 Sep 2004 | China looks abroad for grain
Agricultural exports to China from Australia for broadacre farm products such as wheat are certain to increase, mainly due to a shortage of arable land in China as cities expand and incomes rise. ...... FULL STORY
22 Sep 2004 | Frosts dampen wheat forecast
Australian Wheat Forecasting, cut its national estimate for this year’s crop to 24.7 million tonnes, a fall in the crop estimate of one million tonnes in a week, and the second reduction in the estimate this month. ...... FULL STORY
22 Sep 2004 | ABB and AusBulk merger endorsed
Shareholders in South Australian grain distributor ABB yesterday approved an $850 million merger scheme with handling and storage group AusBulk. ...... FULL STORY
21 Sep 2004 | Agricultural recovery consolidates
Farm production will stabilise in 2004/05, the government’s commodity forecaster ABARE concludes in its latest quarterly forecast. ...... FULL STORY
16 Sep 2004 | AWB review delayed
The independent panel investigating AWB International’s performance as manager of the wheat single desk has been given a second extension, and will now report to the federal government at the end of September. ...... FULL STORY
15 Sep 2004 | Canola in price stampede
Canola prices have jumped $50 a tonne in the past few weeks, due to frost scares in Canada. ...... FULL STORY
15 Sep 2004 | Wheat returns lift by $8 per tonne
Monopoly wheat exporter AWB Ltd this week lifted its estimates of the returns that farmers will get for their crops. ...... FULL STORY
13 Sep 2004 | Canola and cotton prices rises offset wheat’s decline
Strong canola and cotton prices helped push the Westpac NFF Rural Commodity Index up one per cent during August. ...... FULL STORY
10 Sep 2004 | Tractors drive out dealers doors
Drought is an inspiration to farmers to search for better business practices, and in a surprise twist the eastern Australian drought has helped drive a surge in farm machinery sales. ...... FULL STORY
8 Sep 2004 | Rain on the grain leaves farmers still in pain
Grain growers are 10 days away from hitting the wall, in spite of good rains a fortnight ago. ...... FULL STORY
8 Sep 2004 | Harvest forecast downgraded
Continuing dry conditions throughout much of Australia's grainbelt has led to lower forecasts for this year's Winter crop. ...... FULL STORY
8 Sep 2004 | Stripe rust blooms in southern wheat belt
Southern Australia may be on the verge of a stripe rust epidemic in its wheat crops. ...... FULL STORY
2 Sep 2004 | Cane farmers lift green effort
Cane farmers are lifting their environmental performance but still have a fair way to go, an audit of the sugar industry has found. ...... FULL STORY
1 Sep 2004 | ACCC backs grain takeover deal
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to ABB Grain's proposed takeover of AusBulk. ...... FULL STORY
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