Agribusiness

Agtech startup Agora Livestock has banked more than $1.1 million to fund commercialisation of its trading platform, after winning a major federal government acceleration grant.

Meat substitute products have issues with scalability, cost competitiveness and consumer acceptance of the final product.

Perth company Austral Fisheries has revealed a further expansion into northern Australia after reporting strong growth in revenue and profits.

New leadership is in store for Perth-based reforestation company Carbon Neutral after its decade-long chief executive Ray Wilson stepped down from the role.

CBH has officially opened its new fertiliser plant in Kwinana with CBH chair Simon Stead and Agriculture and Food Minister Jackie Jarvis unveiling the facility this morning.

The 227-hectare Kalgan property sold to cattle farmers Wayne and Mandy Tapscott.

Perth-based RLF AgTech has struck an $8.8 million deal to extend its distribution reach in South-East Asia.

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.