Agribusiness

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.

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.