Agribusiness

The trade agreement with India presents a major opportunity.

The parent company of major Western Australian dairy Brownes has recorded an increase in revenue and profitability for the past year, seemingly putting the pandemic and the loss of Woolworths contr

Farmers WA says the federal government should review its promise to ban live sheep exports by sea, branding it a "dumb" commitment that will affect 3,000 people.

A new $20 million round of funding is now open for farmers to help develop ways to measure carbon in their soil, in a plan to help reduce emissions.

Western Australia’s state-of-the-art agrifood and beverage precinct, tipped to deliver up to $330 million into the economy, has officially opened.

The country’s largest grain handler has called an end to the harvesting period, with Western Australia delivering a record 22.7 million tonnes of crop into the network.

Seafarms Group is preparing to place its struggling aquaculture development Project Sea Dragon into administration weeks after losing a $13.9 million contract dispute.

An ongoing tight labour market is unlikely to provide any cost relief to farmers into 2023.

Mark Pownall reveals some of the recent big moves in the Margaret River winery scene.

Opposition spokesperson Steve Martin has called on newly-appointed forestry minister Jackie Jarvis to ‘immediately’ assist workers left blindsided by the closure of Manjimup Mill.

Perth-based Multiplant Holdings has won a contract with CBH Group for rail and civil construction at the cooperative's Brookton site.

Australian Honey Ventures has launched its third capital raising with a $1 million target set to fund research for its medical-grade honey products.

Climate technology company Rumin8 has raised $US12 million in a funding round led by the Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and supported by Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

A $40 million cotton gin facility has been approved by an assessment panel, with the community hoping the project would activate the state's economy and agricultural industry.

One of Margaret River’s oldest and most prestigious wine brands, Cape Mentelle, has been sold by its French owner in an estimated $20 million deal with a major Australian retail group.

Australia's largest grain handler CBH Group says its Western Australian harvest has surpassed the previous year's record with 21.7 million tonnes of crop received so far.

The prominent home builder has sold 8,554-hectare Cherylton Farms to Canada-backed east coast agriculture group Excel Farms.

Australian grain export giant CBH Group has hit new records for December after shipping more than 2 million tonnes of grain and transporting 1mt by train.

A record harvest and high prices due to the Ukrainian conflict push grain giant CBH close to a $500 million surplus.

John Caratti-controlled Harvard Nominees has been ordered to pay the legal costs of some of the parties it took to court over leases to its Esperance farmland.

CBH Group has announced a partnership with transportation supplier Progress Rail to acquire seven new locomotives.

When Kent Egerton-Warburton started writing software in the early 1980s, little did he know that the language he was using was far more readily understood in the bush than the BASIC code he used.

Specialist labs, glasshouses and an emergency management operational centre will be built at Murdoch University, courtesy of $320 million in state government funding.

Other states’ recent appetite for WA sheep is an aberration, not a long-term solution to a market under pressure.

Development of a cotton gin in northern WA is set to proceed after ASX company Namoi Cotton, NSW wheat grower Ron Greentree and the federal government backed the project.

Safe Work Australia has reported a decline in workplace fatalities across the country, but highlighted road transport and farming as by far the most dangerous sectors to work in.

Australian grain export giant CBH Group has purchased a 105 hectare site at Avon Industrial Park to support the company's goal to double total monthly export capacity.

Prominent Western Australian property mogul Allen Caratti is suing his brother John over the sale of farming land in Marvel Loch and Bullfinch.

Agricultural trading platform plans to disrupt its chosen market after a recent fund raising.

Lovegrove Turf Farm’s founders are selling 15ha of land in Wattle Grove worth more than $20 million, after years of interest from some of the country’s largest developers.

Australia's largest grain exporter has announced a $4 billion commitment in its network infrastructure and assets, to be invested over the next 10 years.

The work safety regulator has confirmed it is investigating the death of a farmhand at a property near Collie, the fourth work-related fatality in less than a fortnight.