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29 Oct 2004 | Electronic tags tracking tomatoes
Moraitis, one of Australia's largest fresh fruit and vegetable suppliers, will be the first in the country to test radio frequency identification tags on cases of tomatoes, in a bid to improve supply chain efficiencies. ...... FULL STORY
28 Oct 2004 | Oil lubricates sugar's recovery
The rise in the price of oil has helped restore the outlook for sugar farmers. ...... FULL STORY
27 Oct 2004 | Citrus growers seek consensus on canker counter
The federal government said it would consider a proposal to destroy all fruit trees around Emerald in central Queensland, the site of two outbreaks of citrus canker. ...... FULL STORY
25 Oct 2004 | AWB pays extra for preferred varieties
AWB said it would guarantee $5.00 extra per tonne to farmers next season willing to grow varieties chosen for bread or noodle making characteristics. ...... FULL STORY
25 Oct 2004 | Orchardist offers to raze trees
The owners of Queensland’s largest citrus orchard have offered to destroy their trees in a bid to counter a fresh outbreak of citrus canker that threatens $200 million a year in citrus exports. ...... FULL STORY
21 Oct 2004 | Forecast for wheat harvest slashed
Australian Wheat Forecasters said that it reduced its forecast for this season’s wheat harvest by 3.6 million tonnes to around 21 million tonnes. ...... FULL STORY
20 Oct 2004 | Processors squeeze orange price
Orange growers appear to have conceded to orange juice processors, and accepted prices below the farmers’ target of $300 a tonne. ...... FULL STORY
19 Oct 2004 | Few cane growers willing to leave the land
Just 16 sugar cane growers have taken up the federal government's offer of $100,000 each to leave the industry. ...... FULL STORY
19 Oct 2004 | Panel targets the costs and conflicts over wheat’s single desk
The 2004 Wheat Marketing Review Panel’s examination of Australia’s wheat export system highlighted the need for greater independence between AWBI and AWB Limited at board level, as well as at corporate and operational level. ...... FULL STORY
18 Oct 2004 | Grain harvest yields a promising start
Farmers in the northern NSW grain belt are scrambling to their harvesters amid signs of a promising early harvest. ...... FULL STORY
18 Oct 2004 | Cracked wheat export tow stymies Grain Direct joint venture
CBH Group in Western Australia says that AWB is no longer willing to support a joint venture that CBH believes would make storage and handling cheaper. ...... FULL STORY
18 Oct 2004 | WTO limits European sugar subsidies
The World Trade Organisation ruled that the European Union's sugar production subsidies were illegal. ...... FULL STORY
15 Oct 2004 | Record fine for wetland cleared for wheat
Ron Greentree, one of the nation's biggest wheat farmers, suffered a $450,000 fine for clearing and ploughing significant wetlands on his northern NSW property near Moree. ...... FULL STORY
15 Oct 2004 | Locusts take to wing in early heat
Plague locusts have taken to wing in parts of western NSW and also in northern Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2004 | China trade deal in demand
The Grains Council of Australia says a free trade deal with China should be Australia's highest trade priority, and want the negotiations completed by July 2005. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2004 | Dry spell dampens grain yields
Grain growers in South Australia fear that yields may drop by at least 40 per cent in late harvesting areas and by around 20 per cent in early harvesting areas. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2004 | Fertiliser prices take off
Fertiliser prices have jumped by 50 per cent in four months. ...... FULL STORY
11 Oct 2004 | Cracked wheat owner still a mystery
Ownership of a planned but illegal shipment of 20,000 tonnes cracked wheat from Perth early this month remains in dispute. ...... FULL STORY
8 Oct 2004 | Australia beats US to Iraq contract
AWB has won a contract to supply a million tonnes of wheat to Iraq in a deal worth around $300 million. ...... FULL STORY
8 Oct 2004 | GM Canola trials no secret
A farmer near Horsham identified himself as a grower involved in a trial of Bayer CropScience genetically modified canola. ...... FULL STORY
7 Oct 2004 | Barley Board likely to live on
South Australia may not implement plans to disband the “single desk” system for barley marketing, with any decision dependent on changes to federal government competition policy and the allocation of some state grants as so-called competition payments. ...... FULL STORY
6 Oct 2004 | Fertiliser supply tightens
Demand for fertiliser may outstrip limited supplies for the 2005 growing season, Bob Hoeft, a soil fertility specialist with the University of Illinois said. ...... FULL STORY
5 Oct 2004 | NuFarm chief ploughs on
Doug Rathbone says he will stay on as chief executive of agricultural chemical maker NuFarm. ...... FULL STORY
5 Oct 2004 | Single desk sugar exports planned
Queensland’s government may establish a voluntary “single desk” for sugar exports, according to the new chairman of grower association Canegrowers, Alf Cristaudo. ...... FULL STORY
5 Oct 2004 | Get used to a sugar price of $260 tonne
Canegrowers chairman Alf Cristaudo warned Queensland sugar growers that they must survive on a raw sugar price of around $260 tonne. ...... FULL STORY
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