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21 Dec 2006 | Innovative farmers get $3 million
Australian farmers will benefit from a $3 million grant to increase the use of innovative and sustainable agricultural practices. ...... FULL STORY
21 Dec 2006 | Drought drags down economic growth
The Australian Treasury yesterday published updated economic and budget forecasts for the 2007 financial year. ...... FULL STORY
21 Dec 2006 | GM wheat trialled in Victoria
Victoria’s government will support trial crops of genetically modified wheat. ...... FULL STORY
20 Dec 2006 | Doctors leaving bush
A new report has found that government incentives to encourage doctors to work in the bush are failing. ...... FULL STORY
20 Dec 2006 | Water low a threat to the economy
Melbourne’s water supply has hit a 21-year low as the State Government warns that Victoria will face an economic downturn due to the drought. ...... FULL STORY
20 Dec 2006 | Telcos chase bush broadband honeypot
Jockeying is underway for a federal government subsidy of $600 million to help fund investment in broadband in the bush. ...... FULL STORY
20 Dec 2006 | Wholesalers seek to bypass code
Fruit and vegetable wholesalers sent letters to growers urging them to sign contracts that avoid adhering to "complicated written agreements and expensive administration". ...... FULL STORY
20 Dec 2006 | Meat margins on the block
The Federal agriculture minister Peter McGauran said he planned to publish the results late next month of an investigation by the nation's consumer watchdog on the meat prices at Coles and Woolworths supermarkets. ...... FULL STORY
19 Dec 2006 | Lamb prices on the slide
The saleyard price of lamb is forecast to fall 15 per cent in 2006/07 as the drought forces farmers to sell livestock, and the saleyard price of beef is expected to slide 13 per cent. ...... FULL STORY
19 Dec 2006 | Score of aspirants to dethrone AWB
Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has received 44 applications to export a total of five million tonnes of wheat, which is more than farmers have been able to produce during this year's drought. ...... FULL STORY
18 Dec 2006 | WA runs out of rainwater
The drought is starting to affect areas in WA not serviced by the integrated water supply system, prompting talks to consider if action is needed to avoid major shortages later this summer. ...... FULL STORY
18 Dec 2006 | Most applicants to earn licences for wheat exports
Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran is preparing to endorse applications for wheat export licences from many - and perhaps all - of AWB's rivals. ...... FULL STORY
18 Dec 2006 | 193,000Ml of water wasted
The NSW Government had underestimated the amount of water that had been saved within the system by irrigators from last year, resulting in severe over-allocations early in the season, and which led to forced cuts of more than 52 per cent. ...... FULL STORY
15 Dec 2006 | Childcare subsidy system fails working mothers
Australia’s shambolic childcare subsidy system is the reason why up to 20 per cent fewer mothers work in Australia than overseas, according to a report last week by the House of Representatives committee on work and family balance. ...... FULL STORY
15 Dec 2006 | Foreign Register Considered
In an attempt to stop agents who exploit workers on the so-called 457 visas, the federal government is considering introducing a register of foreign labour hire companies to bring temporary migrants to Australia. ...... FULL STORY
15 Dec 2006 | Spot water at a high
The price of water in the Goulburn Murray system is trading around $900 a megalitre. ...... FULL STORY
15 Dec 2006 | Drought Buses a success
The Australian Government Drought Bus program was launched with just one mobile service unit at the beginning of November this year. ...... FULL STORY
14 Dec 2006 | Visa row over foreign workers
The Australian meat industry is trying to persuade the Federal Government to allow foreign workers to counteract labour shortages. ...... FULL STORY
14 Dec 2006 | Plenty of demand for export wheat
About a dozen exporters lodged applications to sell around three million tones of wheat with the agriculture minister, Peter McGauran. ...... FULL STORY
12 Dec 2006 | Joyce urges government mandate for bio-fuels use
Barnaby Joyce, Queensland Nationals senator, has urged the federal government to mandate the use of bio-fuels as oil companies continue to fall short of their targets. ...... FULL STORY
12 Dec 2006 | AWB unlikely to have much wheat to sell
GrainCorp has submitted an application to export 230,000 tonnes of wheat next year. ...... FULL STORY
8 Dec 2006 | McGauran no soft touch for CBH
The agriculture minister, Peter McGauran, now holds the power of veto over wheat exports by anyone other than AWB, and he may plan to use it, at least to some extent, and thus disappointing alternative vendors such as CBH. ...... FULL STORY
8 Dec 2006 | NSW irrigators want compensation for lost water
The NSW Irrigators' Council has asked for $57 million in compensation for lost carryover water. ...... FULL STORY
8 Dec 2006 | Goulburn water $780/megalitre
The price of temporary Goulburn water hit $780 a megalitre last week. ...... FULL STORY
8 Dec 2006 | More farm chemicals on control list
Another 94 chemicals, many of them for agricultural use, face new controls as part of the government's anti-terrorism regulations. ...... FULL STORY
7 Dec 2006 | Economic growth dragged down by the drought
The rate of economic growth in Australia for the 2006/07 financial year will be about half a percentage point less than the budget forecast of 3.25 per cent the Treasurer, Peter Costello, said. ...... FULL STORY
7 Dec 2006 | Farm income down 72 per cent
The drought will reduce Australia's agricultural income by 72 per cent to $2.6 billion in 2006/07, the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimated. ...... FULL STORY
6 Dec 2006 | Cotton and rice crop in decline
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics predicted that whilst this summer will feature average rainfall, the impact of the drought so far will severely reduce cotton and rice crop yields for this season. ...... FULL STORY
6 Dec 2006 | Winter crop 60 per cent less than in 2005
According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the winter grain crop will be over 60 per cent less than last year and the smallest in 10 years. ...... FULL STORY
6 Dec 2006 | Minister takes AWB veto power on temporary basis
AWB has lost its monopoly powers over wheat exports, with its former power of veto given now to federal agriculture minister Peter McGauran for at least six months while the government works out future policy of the management of wheat exports. ...... FULL STORY
6 Dec 2006 | Driest spring since 1900
Late winter and early spring have been the driest August to October period since 1900 across most cropping districts in Australia. ...... FULL STORY
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