Anthony Albanese has ruled out expanding the $107 million government compensation bill for live sheep exporters during a visit to Perth today but says he's open to proposals from farmers for value-add projects.
The state government is sounding out abattoirs to support South West farmers who will lose the service of the last big processor they could access locally.
WA's beef industry lobby group has decried the state's processing industry ‘monopoly' after paddock-to-plate farmers in the South West lost access to the last large abattoir servicing their needs.
Liberal and Nationals candidates for the newly formed Bullwinkel electorate turned out at a farmers rally in Canberra today, as live sheep export rhetoric ramps up in the new seat.
A bioplastics innovation hub aimed at placing WA at the forefront of the national war on plastic has been unveiled at Murdoch University, in partnership with the CSIRO.
Kewdale-based Wide Open Agriculture posted a preliminary total comprehensive loss of $12.9 million for the 2024 financial year, down from $14.6 million during the prior corresponding period.
A Pilbara cattle station will build a 10,000-head feedlot in a move it expects to bolster the region's status as a global premium boxed Wagyu beef supplier.
Premier Roger Cook has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to apologise for rubbing salt into the wounds of the agricultural sector, after a joke about live export angered stakeholders.
Fremantle-based SeaStock, a carbon abatement company that farms seaweed at a unique land-based production facility, has signed its first commercial supply contract.
Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates has hiked its dividend and signalled growing optimism in overseas sales while revealing a profit slide of 61 per cent.
Andrew Forrest has scored a tactical win in his quest to grow melons and onions on Minderoo Station, with the Supreme Court ruling a refusal to grant consent was done so in error.
Welshpool-based RLF Agtech has terminated a distribution rights deal for its products, moving the process in-house via the recently acquired LiquaForce.
A prominent Wheatbelt sheep farmer says she only found out a consultation panel was coming to her house because a friend messaged asking if she should bring morning tea.
Dutch ag giant Louis Dreyfus Commodities will have to terminate its interest in an NT cotton gin and offload shares in a services firm to acquire Kununurra gin funder Namoi Cotton.
Barley exports to China have surged to new highs one year after trade tariffs were lifted, and major South American offtakers have taken a shine to Australia's grains.
A mothballed Kimberley abattoir has been thrown a $56 million lifeline by a Canadian government-backed fund which would value the plant at a fraction of its former price.
Quintis and several of its subsidiaries have gone into voluntary liquidation after a troubled period for the sandalwood producer including cutting more than half of its workforce.
