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31 Oct 2008 | Too many grapes leads to wine price war
Wine production was up 27 per cent in the year to June 30, leading to fears by producers of a glut in the market and a discounting war. The wine grape harvest was up 34 per cent to 1.8 million tonnes. ...... FULL STORY
31 Oct 2008 | End is near for drought welfare
Drought support arrangements should end in June 2010 says the Productivity Commission which yesterday released its draft report into drought assistance for farmers. ...... FULL STORY
30 Oct 2008 | Good outlook for beef says Kidman
Australia''s largest landholder and third largest beef producer, S Kidman and Co says the industry is looking forward to better times ahead. ...... FULL STORY
29 Oct 2008 | Farmers want end to EC drought welfare
The National Farmers Federation has suggested replacing exceptional circumstances drought funding with HECS style loans for farmers to adjust to climate change. ...... FULL STORY
28 Oct 2008 | ABB opens Adelaide grain container port
ABB Grain has opened the first stage of its new container precinct in Port Adelaide. The company says the $5.6 million facility will allow it to pack 80–90 containers per day with about 2,000 tonnes of grain. ...... FULL STORY
27 Oct 2008 | Dairy farmers remain optimistic despite falling prices
Falls in demand for dairy products in developing countries have led to prices falling by around 20 per cent in US dollar terms. ...... FULL STORY
27 Oct 2008 | Rabbits threaten carbon sinks
Landholders need to eradicate 90 per cent of the rabbit population on their farm each year, just to stop numbers increasing says the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. ...... FULL STORY
23 Oct 2008 | Drought is affecting farming families
The drought is having a severe impact on farming families says a report to be released today by a seven-member expert panel. ...... FULL STORY
23 Oct 2008 | Locusts swarm in Riverina and northern Victoria
Above-average cereal crops in the eastern and southern Riverina are at risk of locust damage. Almost 800 landholders in southern NSW have reported plague locust swarms, with the area around Wagga Wagga the worst affected. ...... FULL STORY
22 Oct 2008 | Wheat crop forecasts revised down again
Dry conditions in the south east grain belt have led Australian Crop Forecasters to lower its expected wheat crop forecast by almost five per cent to a total harvest of 20 million tonnes, down from 21 million tonnes at the beginning of October. ...... FULL STORY
22 Oct 2008 | Shires declare themselves GM free zones
Greater Bendigo, Yarra Ranges, South Gippsland, Moreland, East Gippsland and Bass Coast Shires in Victoria have declared themselves GM free, following the government lifting the ban on genetically modified canola earlier this year. ...... FULL STORY
21 Oct 2008 | Wool industry split over mulesing solutions
A senate committee has heard that Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) is governed by a board that cannot work together and is riven by disunity and dysfunctional relationships. AWI chairman Brian van Rooyen denied the board was dysfunctional. ...... FULL STORY
20 Oct 2008 | Irrigators want buy back speeded up
The 230 farmers in the Wakool Landholders Association have asked the federal government to make a bid to buy back the community''s bulk water license and close all supply channels. ...... FULL STORY
20 Oct 2008 | NSW farmers need more grain trains
The federal government will today announce an inquiry into grain rail freight services in response to concerns raised by farmer''s lobby groups that the infrastructure may not be able to cope with the first decent crop in many years. ...... FULL STORY
17 Oct 2008 | National Foods bid for Dairy farmers gets tick from consultant
A report by independent consultant Grant Samuels has given a tick of approval to National Foods bid for Australian Co-operative Foods Limited (ACF), which trades as Dairy Farmers. ...... FULL STORY
17 Oct 2008 | Governments fail the rivers again
Government''s will miss the November 1 starting date for the change over of responsibility for the Murray Darling system to the Commonwealth. ...... FULL STORY
16 Oct 2008 | Markets fiasco threatens Victorian agriculture
Victoria''s eight billion dollar agricultural industry is threatened by the delay and confusion surrounding the development of markets in Melbourne. ...... FULL STORY
15 Oct 2008 | Graincorp opens wheat, barley and canola pools
GrainCorp yesterday launched its Harvest 08 wheat, barley and canola pool products and confirmed that the company will be running pools for Western Australian growers, South Australian growers and for growers in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. ...... FULL STORY
15 Oct 2008 | Westpac, Rabo & Elders cut rates for farmers
Westpac is still the only big bank to pass on rate cuts to farmers. "We''ll cut our overdraft and term lending for business, including our rural customers, as from Monday (this week)," a Westpac spokeswoman said. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2008 | Victorian farmers get more drought cash and rebates
The Victorian state government has announced a $155 million drought funding package to assist farmers. The premier John Brumby said the situation facing the state''s farmers was as bad as it can get. ...... FULL STORY
14 Oct 2008 | AWB national pool pays wheat growers
AWB says it has secured many long term sales for the national wheat pool. 4.35 million tonnes of wheat was delivered into the 2007/2008 National Pool, mainly from Western Australia and South Australia. ...... FULL STORY
13 Oct 2008 | Queensland leads rural property boom
Rural land prices are rivalling the prices being received for Sydney office towers says property research firm RP Data. In the four months to the end of August, $436 million was spent buying large rural land holding worth $5 million *or* more each. ...... FULL STORY
10 Oct 2008 | Small farms capture water before irrigators
Dams on small farms are capturing more water than ever before, capturing a large percentage of runoff and exacerbating the crisis in river catchments and major storage inflows. ...... FULL STORY
10 Oct 2008 | Free range farmers want inquiry into egg substitution
The free-range egg industry is calling on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to conduct an inquiry into the substitution of cage and barn eggs for free range. ...... FULL STORY
9 Oct 2008 | Farmers benefit from rate cuts and lower dollar
The Reserve Bank''s one per cent cut to official interest rates will save the average farmer with the typical debt load of $420,000 about $3,000 per year. ...... FULL STORY
9 Oct 2008 | Confidence returning to the farm sector
Farmers are borrowing more as confidence returns to the sector on the back of strong global commodity prices and improved production outlook for the current season. ...... FULL STORY
8 Oct 2008 | Southern farmers face worst season ever
Victorian farmers are asking state and federal governments to repeat the $20,000 cash grants to irrigators and 50 per cent subsidies on municipal rates that helped them through last year''s drought affected season. ...... FULL STORY
8 Oct 2008 | Crop forecasts slashed
The NAB national wheat crop forecast has been cut back by 3.5 million tonnes to 20.8 million tonnes as a result of a dry spring in Victoria and Southern NSW. ...... FULL STORY
7 Oct 2008 | Golden Circle welcomes bid from Heinz
Fruit and Vegetable grower shareholders of Queensland based fruit and juice cannery Golden Circle will vote in December on a bid for the company by US food giant HJ Heinz, unless an alternative bid emerges before then. ...... FULL STORY
7 Oct 2008 | NSW irrigators boycott water bills
Southern Riverina irrigators are asking the NSW government to waive fixed infrastructure charges for this year. ...... FULL STORY
3 Oct 2008 | Southern wheat crops ruined
The national wheat crop will total 20.8 million tonnes says NAB. Good rains in Queensland and Western Australia are expected to underpin excellent harvests in those two states. ...... FULL STORY
3 Oct 2008 | Roos are greenhouse friendly
The kangaroo industry has welcomed suggestions in the Garnaut report on climate change that Australia should raise the kangaroo cull from three million annually and replace much of the cattle and sheep grazing industry with kangaroo culling. ...... FULL STORY
1 Oct 2008 | Drought funding ends for Tablelands and Gippsland
Exceptional Circumstances (EC) assistance ceased in the following areas on 30 September 2008: Casino, Armidale, most of the area known as Central North-North West and Central and East Gippsland. ...... FULL STORY
1 Oct 2008 | Irrigators get grants to exit industry
The Australian Government recently announced a $57 million package that offers up to $150,000 as a special exit payment, along with other transitional assistance, to eligible irrigators to sell their water entitlement. ...... FULL STORY
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