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28 Feb 2005 | Rain and shine ruins ABB’s season
ABB Grain said its storage and handling network received just 4.2 million tonnes of grain in the recent harvest, well below the 6.5 million tonnes anticipated at the start of the season. ...... FULL STORY
23 Feb 2005 | Snowy dams an option for irrigation water storage
Farmers in north-eastern Victoria and southern New South Wales might have new options to preserve scarce water. ...... FULL STORY
22 Feb 2005 | Fonterra spruiks dairy prospects
New Zealand dairy group Fonterra said that productivity improvements, demand from Asia, a more favourable exchange rate and weather would all combine in time to deliver a sustainable price to dairy farmers for their milk. ...... FULL STORY
21 Feb 2005 | Water price may treble in the Fitzroy Basin
Coal exporters are making plans to fully fund a $210 million pipeline to avert water shortages in the northern Bowen Basin in Queensland, after both the state and federal governments refused to help fund the project. ...... FULL STORY
21 Feb 2005 | Drought extends reach in the Wimmera
Farmers in the Wimmera district in Victoria’s north-west say that many have lost 70 per cent of their current crop, with the district in the eighth year of below-average rainfall. ...... FULL STORY
16 Feb 2005 | Farmers make the most of summer rain
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics forecast that this season’s summer crop would be 13 per cent higher than last year, thanks to favourable summer rains. ...... FULL STORY
15 Feb 2005 | SunRice cuts staff at Riverina mills
Ricegrowers Cooperative, which trades as the SunRice said this year’s rice crop would be “substantially smaller” than the 2004 crop, but did give a more precise estimate. ...... FULL STORY
14 Feb 2005 | Storms fail to break eight year drought
Victoria’s recent storms have done little to replenish rural reservoirs, and have failed to break the state's eight-year drought. ...... FULL STORY
11 Feb 2005 | Average rain expected in western grain belt
Growers in Western Australia’s cropping belt expect average growing season rainfalls according to the latest seasonal outlook from the Department of Agriculture. ...... FULL STORY
9 Feb 2005 | Rains brighten summer outlook
The National Australia Bank’s quarterly survey of the rural outlook found that business conditions in the December 2004 quarter were the strongest in four years. ...... FULL STORY
7 Feb 2005 | Feds call an end to drought help in southern and western Queensland
The federal government withdrew drought assistance to farmers on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Western Downs and Maranoa regions. ...... FULL STORY
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