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28 Feb 2006 | Sugar revival will keep marginal cane farmers in business
National Australia Bank’s head of agribusiness, Mike Carroll, said the rise in the sugar price was enough to persuade marginal cane farmers to remain in business. ...... FULL STORY
27 Feb 2006 | Iraq now happy to buy wheat, but not from AWB
Iraq will buy Australian wheat, as long as it is not not from AWB Ltd. ...... FULL STORY
27 Feb 2006 | AWB International may severe ties with AWB
The compliance committee of the AWB International board, which consists of directors who are not on the AWB board, should now review the relationship with AWB.... ...... FULL STORY
24 Feb 2006 | AWB chairman re-elected
AWB chairman Brendan Stewart has survived an angry shareholders meeting in Melbourne to be reelected yesterday. ...... FULL STORY
23 Feb 2006 | AWB board face shareholders today
The board of AWB face shareholders in Melbourne at today’s AGM. ...... FULL STORY
22 Feb 2006 | Grains Council seeks four licences for wheat exports
The Grains Council of Australia is lobbying for the federal government to licence additional exporters for the wheat crop, bypassing the veto of AWB. ...... FULL STORY
21 Feb 2006 | Iraq confirms it won’t buy Aussie wheat
Australia may have already lost its Iraq wheat contract, after the Iraqi Grain Board confirmed it would exclude the monopoly exporter, AWB, from any new purchases and buy up to $200million in grain from the US, Canada and Europe. ...... FULL STORY
20 Feb 2006 | Wheat growers say AWB is being scapegoated
A majority of wheat growers continue to support AWB and the single desk. ...... FULL STORY
17 Feb 2006 | AWB wheat the only option for Iraq exports
The government defended its decision to include AWB in the trade delegation to Iraq, saying that only AWB can supply wheat from the national pool for the current Iraqi tender. ...... FULL STORY
17 Feb 2006 | Rabbits immune to calicivirus
Rabbits were becoming increasingly immune to calicivirus but no government was funding any research into the matter, leaving Australia vulnerable said Australia’s top rabbit scientist. ...... FULL STORY
16 Feb 2006 | Incitec makes up with Elders
Incitec Pivot has signed a new fertilizer deal with ELF, a partnership of Elders and Landmark to end a damaging rift. ...... FULL STORY
16 Feb 2006 | AWB caves on single desk
AWB will temporarily allow other companies to export wheat. ...... FULL STORY
16 Feb 2006 | Vaile under pressure on AWB
Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile will head to Iraq to try to salvage Australian wheat sales which have been suspended by the Iraqi Grains Board, pending the outcome of the Cole Inquiry. ...... FULL STORY
15 Feb 2006 | Howard supports breach in single desk for wheat exports
Prime Minister John Howard has asked the Iraqi PM Ibrahim Jaafari to reconsider the ban on AWB whilst the Cole inquiry continues. ...... FULL STORY
15 Feb 2006 | Bumper crops
Farmers brought in the nation's second largest winter crop, after good rains and warm temperatures combined for record fields of wheat, barley and oats. ...... FULL STORY
14 Feb 2006 | AWB loses all exports to Iraq
Australian Grain Exporters Association wants other companies to be granted export licenses immediately because the whole industry is at risk and Australia’s international reputation is in tatters a result of AWB’s actions in Iraq. ...... FULL STORY
13 Feb 2006 | Wheat growers overcharged for marketing and storage
AWB charges wheat farmers in Australia $20 a tonne for storage, double the cost of storage in overseas markets. ...... FULL STORY
10 Feb 2006 | AWB CEO walks
CEO Andrew Lindberg will resign as of the 30th April “in the best interests of the company” said AWB in a statement. ...... FULL STORY
10 Feb 2006 | AWB corporate governance to be overhauled
KPMG will review corporate governance structures at AWB and two committees will be set up to help manage the company. ...... FULL STORY
10 Feb 2006 | Wheat competition good for growers
Elders’ owners Futuris Corp want to secure 15 to 20 per cent of the wheat export market if AWB’s monopoly is ended. ...... FULL STORY
7 Feb 2006 | Broadacre property rises strongly in SA and WA
The Australian Rural Property Index report compiled by Elders found the value of broadacre property sales increased by 84 per cent over three years, from $4.7 billion in 2001/02 to $8.6 billion in 2004/05. ...... FULL STORY
6 Feb 2006 | AWB faces US bans
AWB should be banned from US wheat and futures exchanges according to lobby group US Wheat Associates. ...... FULL STORY
3 Feb 2006 | Government knew about wheat kickbacks
AWB’s middle east manager told the Cole inquiry that he helped set up a system of payments to the Saddam Hussein regime when the wheat exporter was still a government owned board. ...... FULL STORY
2 Feb 2006 | AWB monopoly under sustained pressure
AWB faces losing its monopoly and control over bulk wheat exports. ...... FULL STORY
2 Feb 2006 | Farmers face mixed outlook
Cotton, lamb, grains, dairy and sugar prices are expected to improve in the first half of 2006 whilst beef prices cool and wool falls ten per cent according to Westpac’s latest regional economic report. ...... FULL STORY
1 Feb 2006 | GM Grain perfect match for no-till method
Grain growers have nothing to fear from genetically modified crops and in fact GM technology can help producers plant using no-tillage methods, the South Australian No-Tillage Farmers conference was told yesterday. ...... FULL STORY
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