News Articles for Jackie Jarvis

The state's commercial fishing lobby says affordable fish and chips could be a thing of the past due to reductions to demersal catches along most of Western Australia's coast.

A collective of farmers are pressing ahead with a plan to build a large multi-species abattoir in the Great Southern to service the booming paddock-to-plate market.

The state government will spend $1.2 million with consultants to chart a path forward for WA's stuttering biofuels sector.

The state government is tipping $55.7 million into a new agriculture research and development facility in Jandakot, alongside leasing a 5-hectare site in Wanneroo for field research.

A decision to end funding for WA's grower's network was made against advice which found the program had “exceeded its goals” and should be expanded.

A rendering plant behind Perth Airport critical to the state's meat industry has undergone a $20 million upgrade to boost capacity and improve its environmental credentials.

Plant leather belts, food, and supplements could be made using spent malt from WA's breweries, with research underway to figure out how to value-add the waste product.

Salmon farmer Tassal has opened a barramundi nursery in Broome to boost supply to its Kimberley fish farm in the Buccaneer Archipelago.

Farmers market operators will be offered business training and infrastructure support under a grants scheme launched by the state government this week.

The invasive shot-hole borer is here to stay, with the state conceding it had failed in its bid to stave off the pest locally, shortly before allocating millions to management in the state budget.

The state government body, designed to support small WA businesses, will welcome the Broome Chamber of Commerce and Industry boss as chair, alongside two other appointments.

The state government has announced Saj Abdoolakhan as the new small business commissioner and chief executive officer of the Small Business Development Corporation.

The WA government's regional ministers will be directed to address housing shortages and regional development roadblocks in major country towns.

OPINION: Minerva Foods' handling of the closure of both of its WA abattoirs has left communities in the dark, shareholders none-the-wiser, and an industry with major headaches.

Smallgoods producer D'Orsogna will upgrade its meat processing facilities at its ageing Palmyra headquarters in a move expected to create 10 new jobs.

The state government has opened the first stage of its new $97 million State Biosecurity Response Centre, aimed to increase the efficiency of Western Australia's biosecurity responses.

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

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.

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 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.

WA's distilling sector has called for a two-year freeze in the spirits tax and a 10-year sector plan from the state government.

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.

The state government will move its top biosecurity experts into a new metropolitan office and scrap plans for a facility at Murdoch University.

A prominent Wheatbelt sheep farmer says she only found out a consultation panel was coming to her house because a friend messaged asking if she should bring morning tea.

A controversial federal government Bill that would ban live sheep exports in Australia from 2028 has passed the lower house and is headed for Senate scrutiny.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the federal budget's mining support, Santos and Quintis job cuts, live sheep exports, property development approvals, NWQ Capital Management, and Clough's journey under Peter Bennett.

WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam has defended the state's resources industry, after federal opposition treasury spokesperson Angus Taylor lashed critical minerals production tax subsidies.

The federal government will invest $519.1 million to help farmers prepare for drought, particularly in regional Western Australia and Tasmania.

Two initiatives in WA are set to strengthen biosecurity for the livestock and grains industries.

The boss of Western Australia's new food research epicentre near Pinjarra wants to help establish research centres in regional towns to drive agricultural innovation.

A new food and beverage manufacturing facility has been unveiled within the Food Innovation Precinct of WA for businesses to develop and produce products on a commercial scale.

The state government has put forward its case to deliver the federal government's live sheep export transition package once it is announced.

Western Australia's ban on the commercial logging of native forests could protect two million hectares of trees for future generations.

The state government has launched a new 10-year plan to expand national parks by more than 400,000 hectares by 2033.

There is no good replacement for Western Australia's live sheep trade, Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has conceded, as the industry grapples with its looming closure.

Biofuel gained a foothold in Australia in the mid-noughties, but it wasn't to be. Today a second wave of projects hopes to cement the industry in WA

The state government has confirmed it has dropped the animal cruelty charges against live sheep exporter Emanuel Exports over the death of thousands of sheep in 2017.

The state government is probing what needs to be done to ensure the latest attempt to establish a bioenergy industry in WA doesn't suffer the same fate as efforts nearly two decades ago.

WA Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has delivered a stunning rebuke of commentary suggesting she does not support the live export sector, in a passionate speech that earned her praise from what was expected to be a tough crowd.

A specialist training facility has opened at Muresk Institute, a major part of the $10.3 million upgrade for the Northam agricultural centre.