Agribusiness

Australia's largest cattle producer, Australian Agricultural Company (AACo), exported more live cattle during 2011 despite the Australian government's temporary ban on live exports to Indonesia.

Australian fruit and vegetable growers fear they will become the latest victims in the supermarket price wars after Coles slashed its fresh produce prices.

Frustrated dairy farmers are leaving the industry while the government sits on three reports on the supermarket milk price war.

Biofuels producer Algae.Tec has signed a deal to fund the construction of a facility in China that will produce a renewable alternative to fossil fuels.

Farmers in Western Australia say the federal government has ignored the concerns of farmers nationwide by failing to decrease the threshold for foreign investment in agricultural land.

Wesfarmers expects a 74 per cent drop in first-half earnings from its insurance division because of a high number of natural disasters.

Grain handler CBH Group has reported a late surge in grain deliveries, pushing the state’s total harvest to an unexpectedly large total in excess of 14 million tonnes.

Elders says profits in the first two months of its fiscal year are on track with the agribusiness's improvement plans.

CBH Group has appointed Trent Bartlett to its board as an independent director, replacing retiring director Peter Knowles.

Indonesia will slash live cattle exports from Australia by nearly half in 2012, and will move to phase out all cattle imports from Australia within three or four years.

Farm exports are expected to grow by six per cent in 2011/12 despite an expected slowdown in world economic growth, the federal government's commodity forecaster says.

Leighton Contractors was today announced as the contractor for phase two construction works on the Ord-East Kimberley expansion project.

CBH Grain’s 2011-12 harvest is shaping up to be one of their biggest harvests in years, with total receivals for the state at approximately 8.2m tonnes and many sites breaking daily records, the la

The federal coalition has warned Labor could revisit the possibility of a live export ban, saying it should send a shiver through every Australian cattle producer.

WA Sandalwood Plantations (WASP) has been appointed manager of failed investment scheme Rewards Group’s sandalwood assets.

A record eastern Australian crop has helped GrainCorp more than double its full year profit to nearly $172 million.

Western Australia's non-genetically modified (GM) grain sector could vanish within the next 10 years due to contamination from GM crops, some farmers and conservation groups fear.

A motion to wind up Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is doomed to fail but beef producers hope it ultimately will lead to a new industry body.

The state government will spend almost $14 million in the next five years to reduce the risk of shark attacks after three fatal attacks in recent months.

Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman says the state’s grain industry has received a significant boost with a new consignment of wheat exports to Saudi Arabia.

Australia's farmers face a positive outlook in the medium term despite a volatile global economy, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says.

THE local horticulture sector is being urged to evaluate export opportunities after two major players secured contracts with Singapore’s largest supermarket group. 

Strict new laws in Western Australia will require all cats to be microchipped, sterilised and registered on a database.

Woolworths' new chief executive Grant O'Brien is planning an aggressive push to open 39 new supermarkets while reviewing the company's troubled Big W and Dick Smith stores.

Master Builders Australia says a replacement agency with fewer powers than the Australian Building and Construction Commission would give the green light to building unions to engage in unlawful st

The forestry assets of failed rural land owner The ARK Fund have been sold for $46 million in a deal struck by receivers from McGrathNicol with an international timber investment group.

More than half of Western Australia's surf life saving clubs are threatened by rising sea levels and erosion, according to a new report.

Grocery giant Coles has been caught up in an online scam offering free $500 gift cards to the supermarket.

Tough new abalone laws have been introduced to Western Australia this season, giving recreational fishermen just one hour on the first Sunday of each month to collect the valuable shellfish.

Farmers say new animal welfare arrangements for the Australian live export trade take a balanced approach.

WESTERN Australian grain growers are gearing up for a record harvest this year, with the state set to produce up to 12 million tonnes of wheat.

Exporters expect the resumption of the live cattle trade to Indonesia to move at just a ‘trickle’ for the rest of the year, with the first shipment due this week.