Agribusiness

Sales of WA farmland reached record lows in the first half of 2024, while prices dropped from highs reached at the start of the year.

OPINION: Two recent market interventions by China could both help and hinder Australian agriculture.

OPINION: Capacity constraints at South West abattoirs have left paddock-to-plate producers in the lurch.

Paddock-to-plate producers have won a temporary reprieve from the closure of a key abattoir’s custom kill service, as owner Westpork considers a new niche operation.

OPINION: Opposition to ending the live sheep trade is growing, but it doesn’t mean all in the sector agree.

Olam Agri has conceded to Louis Dreyfus Commodities' increased takeover bid of Namoi Cotton, the company behind the construction of Western Australia’s first cotton processing gin.

OPINION: Demand for sheep meat is expected to rise and WA producers could be in the box seat.

The man who runs Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s private business empire has exited the board of their peak company but the group insists it is business as usual.

Anthony Albanese has ruled out expanding the $107 million government compensation bill for live sheep exporters during a visit to Perth today but says he’s open to proposals from farmers for value-add projects.

The state government is sounding out abattoirs to support South West farmers who will lose the service of the last big processor they could access locally.

Rio Tinto will test a native tree’s suitability as a biodiesel crop in Queensland to offset carbon emissions from its Pilbara mines.

WA’s beef industry lobby group has decried the state’s processing industry ‘monopoly’ after paddock-to-plate farmers in the South West lost access to the last large abattoir servicing their needs.

OPINION: Governments will need to increase R&D spending and possibly farm subsidies on the road to net zero.

Capacity constraints at one of the last abattoirs offering contract kills have left WA's independent meat industry at risk of collapse.

John Caratti-controlled Harvard Nominees has offered to fund a liquidator’s proposed legal action against grain farmer Giovanni ‘John’ Nicoletti.

Singapore-based Olam Agri has lifted its bid to takeover Australia's biggest cotton processor Namoi Cotton, while increasing its stake in the company.

Liberal and Nationals candidates for the newly formed Bullwinkel electorate turned out at a farmers rally in Canberra today, as live sheep export rhetoric ramps up in the new seat.

Dutch agriculture giant Louis Dreyfus Company have today received Foreign Investment Review Board approval for its takeover bid for Namoi Cotton.

A bioplastics innovation hub aimed at placing Western Australia at the forefront of the national war on plastic has been unveiled at Murdoch University, in partnership with the CSIRO.

Kewdale-based Wide Open Agriculture posted a preliminary total comprehensive loss of $12.9 million for the 2024 financial year, down from $14.6 million during the prior corresponding period.

OPINION: Efforts to broaden the appeal of plant-based meat substitutes are faltering over issues such as price, quality and sustainability.

Prawn producer Seafarms has posted a $19.6 million loss for the year, while its flagship Project Sea Dragon prawn farm continues to face uncertainty.

A Pilbara cattle station will build a 10,000-head feedlot in a move it expects to bolster the region’s status as a global premium boxed Wagyu beef supplier.

Two new products - a drink and a snack food - have been made using rejected fruits from Carnarvon's banana co-operative.

Macquarie has placed a swathe of Wheatbelt farmland on the market in a move which could fetch more than $35 million.

Premier Roger Cook has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to apologise for rubbing salt into the wounds of the agricultural sector, after a joke about live export angered stakeholders.

Andrew Forrest expects his push to decarbonise Fortescue’s iron ore mines to rub off on the agriculture industry

Fremantle-based SeaStock, a carbon abatement company that farms seaweed at a unique land-based production facility, has signed its first commercial supply contract.

Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates has hiked its dividend and signalled growing optimism in overseas sales while revealing a profit slide of 61 per cent.

Andrew Forrest has scored a tactical win in his quest to grow melons and onions on Minderoo Station, with the Supreme Court ruling a refusal to grant consent was done so in error.

Welshpool-based RLF Agtech has terminated a distribution rights deal for its products, moving the process in-house via the recently acquired LiquaForce.

OPINION: A change to the backpacker visa could affect the availability of workers in regional and rural Australia.