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28/08/2008 | AWB has seven days left to round up sufficient votes to push through its reform plans.
28/08/2008 | FIVE grain companies have been given the nod to export wheat under the new bulk wheat export arrangements. And only one of the domestic grain industry’s traditional "big four" are among them.
27/08/2008 | MANY parts of Australia are now experiencing a flush of green feed for the first time in a long time.
Greenpeace recruits chefs to label push
21/08/2008 | GREENPEACE has enlisted the help of high profile chefs to launch a national campaign to have genetically modified (GM) food labelled.  | CommentsComments (8)
21/08/2008 | THE WESTERN Australian Government has extended its moratorium on GM food crops for another four years. It joins South Australia as major canola producing States not growing the commercial GM canola varieties, with Victoria and NSW both growing GM this year.  | CommentsComments (3)
ABB to run national pools in barley, canola and wheat
15/08/2008 | ABB Grain has announced it will run national pools for the coming harvest in barley, canola and wheat, but the latter first depends on approval from Wheat Exports Australia.
14/08/2008 | On the surface, it seems a no-brainer. Lupins have been an excellent source of protein and fibre for livestock. Why not humans?
14/08/2008 | The Victorian Farmers Federation's Grains Group has again publicly urged all members to vote yes on the proposed AWB constitutional changes.
7/08/2008 | Strategies implemented by some innovative Wimmera grain producers to adapt to a increasing farm input costs and a changing climate will come under close examination at the Grains Research and Development Corporation update at Warracknabeal on August 28.
New grain clearing house
31/07/2008 | AUSTRALIAN grain producers will have access to a new marketing product to sell their grain, with the launch of an online trading house – Clear Commodities.
30/07/2008 | AUSTRALIA’S natural freight advantage is likely to become even more of a selling point in moving wheat into South-East Asia, according to a Malaysian flour miller.
24/07/2008 | AUSTRALIA’S bulk handlers will be looking to the west this year, as CBH unveils a new system it claims will be as revolutionary as the move from bagged to bulk wheat.
17/07/2008 | PRIDE will be on the line for the 16 teams participating in the inaugural Southern Farming Systems/Rural Finance wheat challenge. The teams will pit their production and marketing skills against each other at two trial sites at Inverleigh and Mininera this season in a bid to produce the best gross margin on their plot.
New rules for wheat's new game
10/07/2008 | On July 1 everything changed for wheat growers. This week Stock & Land kicks off an in-depth series looking at wheat’s new world. We talk to the industry’s power brokers about what the changes will mean and what marketing options growers will be offered this harvest. SALLY WHITE reports.
10/07/2008 | EVERYTHING is negotiable. That was the advice from negotiation expert Paddy Spruce to growers at last week’s Birchip Cropping Group expo preparing for wheat’s new marketing environment.
10/07/2008 | IN terms of his own business, Dooen farmer Mark Johns said the changes to the wheat exporting arrangement will not have much influence. Mr Johns, whose property is north of Horsham on the Wimmera Plains, said he had not been selling into the national pool for some years and that he was used to marketing his own wheat crop.
10/07/2008 | GRAIN-FOCUSED companies have mirrored the wider share market and experienced a week of extreme volatility. But the factors that saw the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) dip below 5000 points last week for the first time in two years were not the same as those influencing the prices of the major ASX-listed grain businesses, according to one analyst.
10/07/2008 | GORDON Davis says AWB will be a significant player in wheat’s new world. But while it will be hungry for tonnes and looking for volume for its pools, he said market share no longer had any relationship to success.
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