4/07/2008 | The impact of surging demand for biofuels on feed prices is a key factor behind the downturn of the American pork industry, a US expert told the Pan Pacific Pork conference at the Gold Coast last week.
4/07/2008 | Water trading caps that Victorian farmers wanted kept in tact are likely to be relaxed within 18 months, but environmental groups are adamant that it won't be enough to revive the health of the Murray River.
4/07/2008 | Australia will suffer more from climate change than any other developed nation and must take the lead in global action to tackle the problem, Professor Ross Garnaut will argue in his report today.
3/07/2008 | NSW is the big money winner from today's COAG intergovernmental agreement on the Murray Darling Basin, set to receive more than $1.3 billion for major works to help reform water use in the system as part of $3.7B in new Federal funding for the rescue works.
3/07/2008 | After Australia's driest May on record, June 2008 brought some relief, especially to northern NSW, southern Queensland and the central Northern Territory, but the same could not be said for parts of South Australia and Victoria.
3/07/2008 | Increased winter crop production and strong global commodity prices are expected to underpin an increase in farm production and incomes in 2008-09, but fast-rising input costs have resulted in a downward revision of this year's farm income estimates, according to the National Australia Bank.
3/07/2008 | Queensland community groups have labelled as "dangerous" a promotion by a major liquor retailer offering bottles of wine for just $2 each.
3/07/2008 | Higher food and fuel costs and other economic pressures are having a critical impact on how consumers shop, cook and dine, according to the Food Marketing Institute, which represents US supermarket systems.
3/07/2008 | South Australian barley growers should be on high alert for an early season outbreak of the net form of net blotch emerging in the Adelaide Plains, Mid North and Yorke Peninsula regions.
3/07/2008 | There is a "quiet carbon revolution" taking place on farms across Australia, with thousands of farmers joining a voluntary soil carbon movement adopting specialised cropping and pasture practices to improve yields and income, while measuring loads of carbon storage on their farms.
3/07/2008 | The NSW Farmers' Association is reminding primary producers that they can now claim 38c per litre of fuel tax credits for petrol and other taxable fuels used on their farm, following tax changes that came into place this week.
3/07/2008 | Wesfarmers chairman Trevor Eastwood has today announced he will be stepping down from his post at the company's annual general meeting in November.
3/07/2008 | The South Australian Government is pushing for Commonwealth support for more than $500 million in priority projects that could result in water savings of more than 100 gigalitres of water in the Murray Darling Basin system.
3/07/2008 | The National Farmers' Federation wants the Federal Government to actively petition for new accounting rules under the Kyoto Protocol to ensure agriculture's sequestration of carbon is acknowledged.
3/07/2008 | A couple of serves of broccoli a week could help fight prostate cancer, according to research conducted in Britain.
3/07/2008 | The Iemma Government estimates it will cost $660 million to drought-proof Broken Hill in NSW's far west - about $30,000 per head of population - and it wants Canberra to contribute money if the plans are to proceed.
3/07/2008 | Cubbie Station is in financial strife, but managing director John Grabbe is confident the biggest cotton farm in Australia is on the road to recovery, with cash flow on the way from grain crops and investment money being courted from Europe.
3/07/2008 | It's a long way from in the bin yet, but if the big winter plant turns into the first full-on, flat-out harvest in almost decade, it's set to test the grain industry's havesting capacity.
3/07/2008 | India's Mahindra Tractors continues to expand its range in Australia, unveiling its most powerful machine to date.
3/07/2008 | The board of Australian Wool Innovation has effectively gagged its directors from speaking to the media, passing a motion that will see only the chairman and chief executive at liberty to give comment.