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.
WA-founded carbon farming project developer Carbon Sync has launched Australia's first free carbon credit calculator to enable farmers to estimate their potential income through soil carbon farming.
The Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union has sued the country's biggest grain handler, alleging it failed to fully pay workers during a strike at its Kwinana premises.
Recent rainfall has given Western Australian farmers some reprieve for the start of the crop season but an industry body says more was needed to hit a potential 16 million tonne yield.
Prominent Great Southern farmer Alan Richardson has opened up a new WA grain export pathway through Albany, the first to do so in WA for more than six years
Booming processed meat sales have led to WA abattoir operator WAMMCO paying out a record $21.8 million to its members, more than double last year's bonus.
Premier Roger Cook says the call to end live sheep export is wrong but conceded that if he were a member of the federal caucus, he would be bound to support it.
Darryl Hockey has resigned as Western Australian Fishing Industry Council chief executive after four years, with Melissa Haslam announced as his replacement.
A controversial federal government Bill that would ban live sheep exports in Australia from 2028 has passed the lower house and is headed for Senate scrutiny.
