WESTERN Australian farmers and growers are feeling the effects of the economic downturn as the big supermarket chains put the squeeze on their supply chain.
FARM chemicals company Imtrade Australia believes its new sales management team is poised to build on its 25 per cent per annum growth and challenge its major competitors.
THE Fishing Industry Women's Association of WA (FIWA) is poised to take a class action against the state for changes to the rules governing the rock lobster industry.
ATTEMPTS by the state's only grain technology company Intergrain to establish itself as a viable commercial entity after 13 months of privatisation are being resisted by peak farming bodies.
WHEN Mick Ferrero moved to Western Australia in 1991 he discovered that many of his fellow Britons had an appetite for British sausages local producers just couldn't satisfy.
THE Note can't resist indulging in some low-key bragging when the occasion permits; particularly when a story is launched by this newspaper and goes on to make a splash elsewhere.
The revolving door outside the boardroom of budding aquaculture producer Marine Produce Australia, which has been spinning fast for the past year, hit top speed this month.
Australia's biggest live sheep exporter, Emanuel Exports Pty Ltd, is planning a constitutional challenge to animal cruelty charges brought by the state government under the Animal Welfare Act.
Western Australia's aquaculture sector, long touted as having strong growth prospects, is moving forward on two fronts, with Marine Produce Australia launching a $4 million capital raising and Western Australian Abalone close to completing a $1.8 million
ONE business looking to take advantage of the global sustainability phenomenon (see story above) is Perth-based ASX-listed aquaculture company Marine Produce Australia (MPA).
The State Government has hailed a deal with the Indigenous people of the west Kimberley as a major step towards the long-awaited expansion of the Ord River irrigation project.
Tony Fini is renowned for his role in establishing one of Western Australia's most successful property developers, the Fini Group. Now he's turning his attention to a tourism project in Gingin as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
The Australian Olive Association will hold its National Olive Industry Conference over Wednesday October 27 to Saturday October 30 at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Integrated Tree Cropping will be the second largest integrated hardwood timber company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange following completion of its acquisition of Vict
FORMER property developer Tony Fini has unveiled an ambitious plan to establish a new tourism venture at his family's olive grove near Gingin, north of Perth.
THE Catalano family know their fish. Indeed, it would be hard not to for a family that has known nothing else since Frank Catalano bought a fish and chip shop more than 30 years ago.
GRAHAM Laitt is aiming to build a $100 million WA agribusiness enterprise after taking control of Welshpool-based Milne Feeds and folding it into his pastoral holdings.
AGRO-FORESTRY group ITC's capital raising of between $13 million and $15 million is more than a cosmetic effort to improve its appeal to foreign interests.
WA PLANTATION manager Integrated Tree Cropping claims to have been the first to get its prospectuses through under the Australian Securities and Investments Commision's new guidelines.
The Australian Wheat Board, privatised on 1 July 1999, is operating under a new structure which, according to AWB Limited WA regional manager, Greg Harvey, is more commercially focussed while continuing to be customer driven.
