A nationwide project researching a 2D apple orchard design is underway with the Manjimup Horticulture Research Institute focusing on narrow growing techniques.
Anjelica Smilovitis
BCI Minerals has been granted environmental approvals for its $1.4 billion Mardie project near Karratha, paving the way for the production process to start at Australia’s first major salt project in 25 years.
Simone Grogan
Draped in a ‘Keep the Sheep’ scarf, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has told a major farming rally in Canberra that the Coalition will repeal the live export ban if it wins the next Federal election.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Producers have welcomed the reopening of the Vietnamese market to Aussie plums with a two-way agreement to include Vietnamese passionfruit imports to Australia.
Liv Casben
Vineyard and orchard owners looking to reduce chemical use are thrilled with a cute breed of sheep that's proving a powerful weapon in the fight against weeds.
The WA Government spent $6.4 million on plans to build a new headquarter for DPIRD at Murdoch University before pulling the pin last month, it can be revealed.
Rebecca Turner
The State Government is allocating $4.29 million for a doppler radar system in a bid to improve water security for growers in the Manjimup-Pemberton region, but the radar will also benefit the wider community.
Rising red meat prices and strong seasonal conditions are driving growth, with agricultural production expected to hit $86 billion this financial year.
WA’s $3 billion horticulture industry is on alert after a highly infectious tomato virus was detected in Australia for the first time.
Adam Poulsen
Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has blasted the Liberal party for amplifying incorrect claims the shot-hole borer had invaded the South West.
Jake Dietsch
Albany’s local member has joined the chorus of people calling on the Prime Minister to apologise for an “extremely disappointing” joke about killing the live export industry.
Melissa Sheil
The State Government has announced a significant funding injection into a new tree planting program following the destruction of more than 3000 trees due to the invasive polyphagous shot-hole borer.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been lambasted for bragging about making sure the live export industry was ‘dead’ at a dinner celebrating rural women’s achievements.
Dylan Caporn
A new $30 million biosecurity hub, with locations across Australia, will tackle emerging and current threats to food supply and farms in the Indo-Pacific.
Authorities are investigating how 80 sheep died while in air transit to Indonesia over the weekend.
More than 80 sheep have died in a plane bound for Jakarta in a live export shipment.
Lisa Thomas
The administrators of Yeeda Group has signed off on a $55 million transaction to save the failed abattoir owner and pastoral business.
Cheyanne Enciso
Billionaire miner Andrew Forrest has enjoyed a victory in his long-running battle with an Aboriginal group over his ambitions to capture the Ashburton River.
Neale Prior
An innovative women-only Landcare group has raised interest in biodiversity and the environment amongst farmers across their region in NSW.
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.
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.
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
