Calls to abandon a genetically modified wheat trial in Western Australia amid reports certain varieties could cause liver failure have been dismissed by the state government as scare
Wheat production is forecast to be around 24 per cent lower this year with the industry facing mixed prospects heading into spring, the government's commodity forecaster says.
TFS Corporation shares have jumped after the sandalwood plantation manager announced global investment bank Moelis & Company had been appointed to assist in a strategic review of operations.
A write-down in value of two major projects and a deluge of wet weather during harvest season has hit almond producers Select Harvests' bottom line, with the company posting a full-year loss
Agricultural investment company AACL Holdings and international trading group Glencore Grain say they are still negotiating $7 million in funding support for AACL, after failing to meet self-impose
Conservation groups are gearing up to launch a major public campaign against the state government, after the release of a new 10-year draft strategy for the management of Western Australia's forest
Former AWB managing director Andrew Lindberg has been fined $100,000 and banned from managing companies for two years over the Iraqi kickbacks scandal.
The nation's largest cattle producer Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has narrowed its financial losses and flagged an improvement in cattle prices.
The peak body representing egg farmers in Western Australia has warned consumers to brace for higher prices on the back of a once-in-a-century drought in the United States.
Beef producer Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has reached a tentative agreement with Western Australia's Bunuba people to manage the Leopold and Fairfield cattle stations in the Kimber
Western Australia's commercial fishing industry will be one of the big losers from the federal government's creation of 44 marine parks around the country, whereas the oil and gas industry is likel
Northern Australian cattle producers say more stringent government regulations are giving exporters confidence, despite many of them sliding further into debt.
Indonesia's appetite for beef continues to rise and should lead to a recovery in live imports from Australian producers, a leading agribusiness firm says.
Australia needs to open up its northern regions to agricultural expansion or face a potential food shock from Asia, says the chief executive of Australia's biggest beef producer, Australian Agricul
GrainCorp expects another large national harvest after a bumper crop helped lift first half profit by more than 50 per cent and upgraded its full year profit forecast.
Woodchipper Gunns has struck a deal to sell its hardwood sawn timber business for $28 million as it continues to finalise its long-awaited capital raising.
A high-profile anti-whaling and environmental activist has been given a suspended jail term for bursting into the offices of Western Australia's Forest Products Commission (FPC) and throw
Rifts between Australia's farming community and the Australian Greens over the carbon tax have been "wildly exaggerated", says the party's new leader Christine Milne.
Nine animal rights activists have been arrested after they chained themselves to a live-sheep export ship and gates at Fremantle Port for nearly seven hours.
A writ has been lodged in the Western Australian Supreme Court on behalf of an organic farmer seeking damages for losses suffered after genetically modified canola contaminated his crops.
