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 | 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.
2/07/2008 | Most eastern Wheatbelt farmers received an end of year financial bonus as double digit rainfalls blanketed struggling crops last week, bolstering the outlook for WA's winter crop.
2/07/2008 | The company behind an innovative product with the capacity to increase the number of food-grade sea containers available for wheat exports is sweating on gaining rapid approval for its use from the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS).
1/07/2008 | The Iraqi Government has filed a civil lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against 94 companies, including AWB, for their role in the corruption of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program.
1/07/2008 | The new wheat industry regulator, Wheat Exports Australia (WEA), has officially commenced operations from today, replacing the former Export Wheat Commission.
1/07/2008 | Chicago Board of Trade grains futures prices plummeted overnight in response to a US Department of Agriculture report showing a larger than expected harvest.
30/06/2008 | An opportunity for producers to raise the bar on their winter cereal-growing strategies surfaced at a recent Pacific Seeds field day staged at the company's Gatton Research Farm in Queensland.
26/06/2008 | New evidence from Canada starkly demonstrates the lack of vision regarding genetically modified food by the current Western Australian Government, according to PGA Western Graingrowers chairman Leon Bradley.
26/06/2008 | Recent moist conditions in Western Australia have led to more slugs damaging canola.
26/06/2008 | Sowing of the 2008 winter crop is about 85pc complete in NSW, with the State's farmers now looking to the skies for more rain to help secure the crop's future and above average yields.
25/06/2008 | THE VICTORIAN Farmers Federation (VFF) is busy working to get its proposed grain marketing brokerage and market information service up and running.
25/06/2008 | If somebody was to tell you that you could substitute your synthetic phosphate and nitrogen fertilisers with a free replacement you'd tell them they were talking crap. And you'd be right - but not for the reasons you'd expect.
25/06/2008 | AMERICAN grain end-users and those concerned about food security are urging their government to reconsider ethanol quotas in the wake of the Iowa floods, saying the high prices are putting them out of business.
25/06/2008 | THE Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA turned back the clock last week in a bid to place pressure on the Wheat Export Marketing Act as it made its way through the Senate by renewing calls for a full forensic audit of AWB's management of the National Wheat Pool during the past eight years.
24/06/2008 | Three Grain Growers Association (GGA) members have been nominated to represent growers on National Agricultural Commodities Marketing Association (NACMA) committees.
23/06/2008 | Angry, emotional farmers say the passing of new laws dismantling the single desk for wheat exports signals a black day in the history of Australian farming.
23/06/2008 | Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke, has announced the panel for the new Wheat Exports Australia body which will oversee the new bulk marketing system, formally legislated today.
23/06/2008 | More than 80 farmers have booed Federal Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke, as he today moved legislation to overhaul wheat marketing and dismantle the single desk.
20/06/2008 | Early rust samples analysed by the Cereal Rust Laboratory have sparked concerns that stripe rust, and possibly leaf rust, may hit for wheat crops across southern Queensland and northern and central western NSW this season.