Agribusiness

Business News understands Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company and PenAgri have offloaded the 80,000-hectare Merredin Farms to a host of Wheatbelt farmers.

Fremantle-based livestock vessel operator Wellard will sell its last remaining ship and consider delisting from the ASX, in a $80m windfall for shareholders.

Brazilian agribusiness giant Minerva Foods has shut down the Tammin abattoir and has gone to ground about the future of the company’s operations in Australia.

Seafood giant Tassal has won traditional owner support for its barramundi farm expansion plan off the Kimberley coast.

The horticultural wholesale arm of Tony Galati’s empire has been fined $62,600 for four breaches of the Horticulture Code.

A tough year for Australia’s largest co-operative has seen profit plunge on the back of a smaller harvest, slim grain margins and a large investment outlay.

Western Australia’s 2024 crop is expected to come in at more than 20 million tonnes, well above predictions made mid-year due to a lack of rain.

Western Australia’s biggest grain handler and a New South Wales-based contractor have sued each other over a rapid rail and outloading project in the state’s Great Southern.

Western Australian Meat Marketing Co-operative has been charged over the death of a worker at its Katanning abattoir.

A Pinjarra cattle farmer has won a $59 million contract to supply livestock to feed Western Australia’s prisoners.

OPINION: Dramatic changes to US positions on trade and agriculture could have widespread consequences.

WA agribusiness firms are confident of reclaiming their positions in the Chinese market, though concede competition is stronger than ever.

Investing in abattoir capacity and new facilities in WA may offer upside, but the reality is more challenging for those that can’t scale up.

A mild winter across swathes of WA’s growing regions has left stone fruit growers with a mixed bag come harvest season.

The first commercial harvest from an Abrolhos Island oyster operation has proven a hit as the company behind it eyes growth through the Mid West hospitality scene.

OPINION: A move away from Merino sheep is reshaping farming practices and economic outlooks in the sector.

Phil Matera has growth in mind for Djinda Produce, after taking sole ownership of the business earlier this year.

A Perth-based geospatial tech firm has unveiled its latest innovation, a data visualisation tool which can display the distribution and severity of pesticide resistance across Australia.

Family-owned agribusiness group Craig Mostyn has completed a $25 million expansion of its Linley Valley Pork facility, upgrading processing and cold chain capacity to meet export demand.

A hub to help build Western Australia’s Aboriginal bushfoods industry has opened south of Perth.

Australia’s largest agribusiness Elders has raised a $475 million deal to acquire private rival Delta Agribusiness.

Carnarvon’s banana co-operative has spent the past two decades finding creative ways to turn its growers’ discards into profit.

Nutrien Ag has proposed a $70 million facility in Rockingham, being the first major tenant signed up to build on industrial land owned by Philip Cardaci’s CFC Group.

OPINION: WA farmers are already dealing with the financial fallout from the approaching end to the live sheep export trade.

Cost-of-living pressures have driven a sharp uptick in both customer numbers and revenue for Tony Galati’s Spudshed, almost tripling its previous year’s profit.

The Forrest’s cattle herd is swelling but the agricultural arm of the family empire remains loss-making despite managing to cut sales costs in the past year.

Western Australia’s newest abattoir is on the market as demand from small producers to service their paddock-to-plate operations intensifies.

OPINION: The escalating conflict in the Middle East could significantly disrupt the global grain trade.

A proposed canola crushing plant that could feed BP’s half-a-billion-dollar biofuel proposal is a step closer, after Cargill signed a lease with the state government.

Cereal breeding company InterGrain has marked a new site to replace its Bibra Lake headquarters in a $38 million move.

King Charles III road-tested a few WA wines in Canberra and big buyers got a taste of the latest produce made for market in Perth.

The federal government’s $32.7 million top-up of a fund to support farmers phasing out of the live sheep export industry has been lashed by political opponents.