An innovative women-only Landcare group has raised interest in biodiversity and the environment amongst farmers across their region in NSW.
Liv Casben
WA’s biggest grain handler says there has been ‘no significant impact’ on the State’s growers after a CBH freight train smashed into a car on railway tracks in Perth on Thursday.
Adam Poulsen & Caleb Runciman
The State Government has cancelled plans to build a $320 million Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development office at Murdoch University.
Jake Dietsch
Cotton growers have been told they must continue to cultivate sustainable cropping systems to ensure success, at their annual conference on the Gold Coast.
A ‘visionary’ new grains research project worth nearly $60 million promises to help WA growers boost crop yields by more than 10 per cent in the face of declining rainfall.
Adam Poulsen
A bull that weighs as much as a car has been crowned the heaviest at Queensland's Ekka after his breeder spent years preparing for the competition.
Rachael Ward
Kwinana is now home to a new $100 million animal feed mill that’s set to pave the way for an expansion of poultry and pig production in WA.
Olivia Ford
Farmers are being urged to feed their animals methane-busting supplements to help reduce production of the dangerous gas a report says is reaching new levels.
The Navy’s first female pilot and a former Cuballing local dropped into Wickepin on Thursday to encourage women in regional areas to take career leaps and prove their significance in male-dominated industries.
Hannah Whitehead
A study of identical twins, half of whom ate a vegan diet, while the other sibling ate an omnivorous diet suggests a vegan diet may reduce your biological age.
By Nina Massey
WA farming leaders are ‘beyond relieved’ after a landmark class action in the Federal Court failed to prove the herbicide Roundup and its key ingredient glyphosate causes cancer.
A Canadian pension fund has lobbed a $56 million bid to rescue Yeeda Group, five months after the abattoir owner and pastoral business hit the wall.
Matt Mckenzie & Olivia Ford
Former NSW Farmers boss Pete Arkle will fill in for Grain Producers Australia chief executive Colin Bettles as the WA businessman recovers from a mysterious incident that left him in a coma in San Francisco.
A Czech billionaire is looking to offload a Goldfields potash project, or at least a slice of it, and one of his lieutenants has rubbished claims of deep job cuts despite a leadership exodus.
Adrian Rauso
NSW farmers want more say on how renewable energy projects impact agricultural land and for compensation to be extended for the life of the project.
A Woolworths employee has been removed from a farming conference after being accused of spying on producers.
Dominic Giannini and Liv Casben
Bird flu hasn't been found on any additional Victorian farms in a month, after multiple surveillance activities including property visits and bird collections.
Holly Hales
The family office of a Central European billionaire credits a new evaporation technique for resuscitating a potash mine near Wiluna that was submerged in debt.
Farmers will push for nuclear power plants on the sites of retiring coal-fired stations but quashed a motion opposing new solar and wind projects.
William Ton
Many of Perth’s much-loved mature trees are being cut down and mulched as an insect the size of a sesame seed wreaks havoc across a large part of the metropolitan area.
Karen Chappel
The State Government’s response to a small but potent threat to WA’s biosecurity is too little, too late according to the WA Liberal Party.
Oliver Lane and Dylan Caporn
Wickepin will be the centre of ‘seeds of change’ as farming women descend on the small Wheatbelt town to uplift, support and educate each other.
Food companies that have already shrunk packaging and raised chocolate prices to weather this year’s run-up in cocoa costs are rapidly rewriting recipes to use none of the stuff at all.
Ilena Peng
Mt Barker farmer Blake McFarlane has been doing things a little differently since he started his first business at just 13 years old.
Georgia Campion