Agribusiness

Farmland in Western Australia is on the cusp of breaking the $10,000-per-hectare price tag after another year of nation-leading price growth.

Natalie Sarich-Dayton says Brownes is focused on new product lines amid a protracted sale by WA's oldest dairy's Chinese owners.

V&V Walsh has cleared a planning hurdle over its new wastewater treatment plant, with an assessment panel unanimously approving the $32 million proposal.

The Richardson family's investment in export infrastructure at Albany has caught the eye of farmers, traders and venture capitalists.

Western Australia's broadacre farmers have delivered another record crop, topping more 27.3 million tonnes.

OPINION: Grain growers will be watching with interest as unrest in Iran spreads to global markets for inputs including urea.

Supreme Court judge Gary Cobby stood aside from an injunction battle after a self-styled whistleblower pointed to his work three decades ago with law firm Freehills and its connections to WA Inc.

A legal dispute between the Forrests and the Thalanyji people over leaky weirs on Minderoo Station is nearing the end, as lawyers make their final submissions.

Some 562 improvement notices and six prohibition notices have been issued across 19 regional abattoirs around WA after WorkSafe conducted a 'proactive' inspection program.

Commercial fishing has proved a powerful attraction to those with the patience and financial muscle to ride the sector's waves.

Records have tumbled at Western Australia's bulk grain handling co-operative as another bumper harvest wraps up.

OPINION: The state government may have hooked itself with what looked like an easy political decision.

OPINION: There's an alarming lack of knowledge about recreational anglers' impact on fish stocks.

A processing facility built in Shark Bay will establish a new export avenue for Western Australia's oldest trade, sea cucumbers.

OPINION: Whether or not this is the time to sell, plenty of the cooperative's members will be wondering when, not if.

The WA Supreme Court has thrown out a seven year old legal action between the descendants of late Goldfields businessman Boss Jones and his brothers John and Burchell.

The use of artificial intelligence to count sheep has improved accuracy at one of Western Australia's largest abattoirs.

A South West fruit packaging business has received approval to build a multi-million-dollar facility closer to the metropolitan area, to cater for the growing operation.

English investor Guy Hands has agreed to buy Madura Plains Station three months after purchasing the nearby Rawlinna lease.

ANALYSIS: The dollar value may not match those of other states, but the tariffs will hit WA farmers.

The farming family wants to work with apple growers in WA to stabilise prices as they invest in orchards in the southern forests.

Wine entrepreneur Franklin Tate is selling two key private assets – a South West vineyard and an Eagle Bay pad – following the collapse of his business centred on Margaret River operations.

Anthony Heslewood opened a fish processor in Augusta. A few days later, the state government banned commercial demersal fishing off the west coast.

Industry representatives will lobby Jackie Jarvis for an independent fish biomass study and pause to the ban on demersal fishing off the west coast.

The Wandel family's independent grain export business is thinking big to overcome a transport problem.

Plans for a $500m canola crushing plant by US agribusiness Cargill in Kwinana have been lodged with the state development authority.

Peeved Quintis investors face a costs blow after failing to stop receivers from selling six properties.

Wholesalers are importing more snapper from New Zealand to replace lost supply after the state government's ban on demersal fishing came into effect.

A host of Western Australia's influential business leaders could find demand for their prized meat products clipped after China imposed a 55 per cent tariff on beef imports.

As WA's annual grain harvest nears 30mt, more businesses are seeing opportunity in providing avenues to export markets.

OPINION: The ag sector's performance this year was primarily influenced by three global and national events.

Seafarms Group Limited has completed its acquisition of assets and undertakings of Project Sea Dragon from the liquidator, paving the way for a return of the trouble-plagued prawn farm.