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30 Apr 2007 | Good rain brings hope but not certainty
Farmers are sowing crops after rains fell across most of southern Australia last week. ...... FULL STORY
30 Apr 2007 | Not enough dam rain
Last week’s rain may have given some hope to farmers but it wasn’t enough to raise dam levels. ...... FULL STORY
30 Apr 2007 | Push to keep single desk
Farm leaders from four states will write to Prime Minister John Howard today urging the federal government to give a demerged AWB International control over Australia’s national wheat marketing system. ...... FULL STORY
27 Apr 2007 | PM wants growers’ ears
Prime Minister John Howard has played down the likelihood of immediate deregulation of wheat marketing regulation in Australia. ...... FULL STORY
27 Apr 2007 | Long dry broken in SA
The long dry in South Australia was finally broken yesterday as a deluge soaked all corners of the state. ...... FULL STORY
26 Apr 2007 | Barley pool payout
ABB Grain Limited has paid out $6 million to Victorian and South Australian growers who took the extended pool option last harvest. ...... FULL STORY
26 Apr 2007 | Canegrowers to meet CEO for merger sweet talk
Maryborough Sugar Factory chief executive Mike Barry will accept an invitation from Mulgrave Central Mill to appear before its shareholders growers. ...... FULL STORY
24 Apr 2007 | WA’s wheatbelt gets rain in parts
Scattered thunderstorms in Western Australia have brought rain to some farms while neighbouring properties barely registered a drop. ...... FULL STORY
20 Apr 2007 | Howard’s water warning
Yesterday Prime Minister John Howard said he had received a report warning of an "unprecedented dangerous" situation in the Murray-Darling Basin. ...... FULL STORY
19 Apr 2007 | AWB reels from futures market hit
AWB suffered a massive loss in the US futures market last year after a surge in the global wheat price left it badly exposed. ...... FULL STORY
18 Apr 2007 | AWB being sued in two countries
AWB faces a $US100 million ($120 million) class action from American wheat farmers in relation to the $290 million in kickbacks paid to Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime. ...... FULL STORY
18 Apr 2007 | Salt tolerant wheat on the way
Groundbreaking Australian research could make way for new varieties of salt-tolerant wheat. ...... FULL STORY
17 Apr 2007 | First the drought, now the dollar
Australian wheat farmers are facing lower returns for last season’s harvest, due to the strong Australian dollar. ...... FULL STORY
13 Apr 2007 | PM’s water plan waits on data
At the heart of the Prime Minister’s $10 billion water plan lie the CSIRO’s water calculations and yet they may not be available for months and may not be released until after the federal election. ...... FULL STORY
12 Apr 2007 | Pressure increases to leave AWB in place
Prime Minister John Howard said the government had the interests of wheat growers at heart as it continued its deliberations over the future of Australia’s wheat marketing system. ...... FULL STORY
11 Apr 2007 | Nervous wait for autumn rain
April is considered by some to be the ideal time for rain, and now that the middle of the month is fast approaching farmers are getting nervous. ...... FULL STORY
11 Apr 2007 | Water licence compo raises tax question
Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Environment Minister, is administering the achieving sustainable groundwater entitlements (ASGE) scheme. ...... FULL STORY
11 Apr 2007 | Legal precedent could be set in grains industry
A group of Riverina maize growers will take up their case against Cargill Australia later this year and could set a legal precedent in the grains industry. ...... FULL STORY
10 Apr 2007 | Sugar bid not sweet enough
Mulgrave Central Mill is facing rising anger from many shareholder growers, who believe that they are being forced into accepting a takeover bid from Bundaberg Sugar... ...... FULL STORY
5 Apr 2007 | Barley marketing deregulated in SA
From July 1 barley marketing will be deregulated in South Australia. ...... FULL STORY
5 Apr 2007 | AWB prices beaten
AWB’s ability to achieve the best prices for wheat growers has come into question after a report by the Wheat Export Authority found that non-AWB exporters often achieve better prices and do not undermine the national pool. ...... FULL STORY
4 Apr 2007 | NSW farmers plant double crops
New South Wales farmers will plant 4.63 million hectares of winter crops; almost double last year’s 2.62 million hectares. ...... FULL STORY
3 Apr 2007 | Call for inquiry into AWB wheat sales
Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has called for a forensic audit of, as well as an independent inquiry into, AWB after the company failed to sell 10 per cent of the 2005 wheat pool which cost growers $500 million. ...... FULL STORY
2 Apr 2007 | Wheat exporters want certainty
Four major wheat exporters, AWB, CBH, Graincorp and ABB, have united in an attempt to find a solution to the political impasse over the future of the single desk wheat marketing arrangements. ...... FULL STORY
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