Amid growing calls for more work to be done to cut Australia's emissions, the Federal Government's green investment bank is today unveiling its first equity investment in the agricultural sector. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation is teaming up with the Macquarie Group and the CSIRO to cut farming emissions and establish new efficiency standards

A Charles Sturt University researcher is calling for poultry welfare to be improved in Australia

A fair bit of work is being done in the northern wheatbelt to better understand how to keep feral pig numbers under control. In the Northampton region just north of Geraldton, the Northern Biosecurity group is working with the Department of Primary Industries

They have installed monitoring cameras, they're conducting infra-red drone surveys and earlier this week the project took to the skies, using a helicopter to conduct an aerial cull

2018 Nuffield scholar says Australian avocado growers need to become more efficient in their crop production by maximising yields and lengthening seasons

Indonesia looks set to start exporting mangoes to Australia, after a trade deal was finalised between the two nations last week in Melbourne

The caged egg industry is telling its side of the story to try to save the sector

Trials to turn a declared weed into highly nutritious cattle feed are soon to be underway in the north, with a group of scientists from around the world looking to develop a seedless variety of Leucaena

A global team of researchers from Spain, the CSIRO and the University of WA have provided further confirmation that lupin based food can prevent and treat inflammatory-related diseases including type 2 diabetes and cancer

Succession planning is difficult for most farming families. But it can be particularly challenging for families with daughters who may want to farm

History has been made today with a woman elected to the board of the state's main grain handler the CBH Group. There have been two other women on the board before, but they were independent directors not grower elected directors. Natalie Browning from Kondinin has been elected by grower members from district three and will be appointed to the board at CBH's AGM on Friday

Researchers have had a bit of a break-through in understanding red clover syndrome that can ruin feed on some Western Australian sheep farms

More than a hundred millimetres of rain has been recorded since nine am yesterday at Cascade north west of Esperance

Roebuck Plains Station, just to the west of Broome, saw almost 550 millimetres fall over the weekend

Stations along the Gascoyne coastal strip between Kalbarri and Exmouth have missed out on the rain from TC Kelvin, some stations have not had a decent rain in three years

WA seed potato growers are not surprised by the export market access to Indonesia now approved for Victorian and South Australian growers

14.275 million tonnes, that's officially how much grain was produced in Western Australia last harvest according to the Grains Industry Association of WA

Peter Carberry, from the International Crops Research Institute for semi-arid tropics in Hyderbad, India said recent tariffs imposed on legumes and field peas to India is an effort to assist small Indian farmers

Lamboo Station's Darrylin Gordon, is a finalist for the 2018 WA AgriFuturesTM Rural Women's Award, for her plan to create an on-station training and empowerment programs for the surrounding indigenous communities

A group of farmers from WA's Ord Valley travelled to South Korea to see their Kimberley corn be made into corn chips

Western Australia's agriculture minister Alannah MacTiernan has requested the director general of the agriculture department to investigate recent animal deaths on live export ships

Talks between federal politicians are expected to continue behind closed doors in Canberra today amid uncertainty over the future of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Pilbara gold miner Artemis Resources has teamed up with the CSIRO to research the unique gold deposits being found around Karratha

A flow through share scheme for mineral exploration is one step closer after legislation passed the lower house of Federal Parliament this week

Australian farmers are closely watching so called "right to repair" reforms in the United States, as farmers there face off with major machinery manufacturers

Preparations for Lunar New Year are used by some members of Sydney's Vietnamese community for their urban raised children to gain a greater understanding of farming and food production

Dairy farmer Dale Hanks said the last 15 months have been a real rollercoaster ride, from being dumped by his milk processor and planning to transition out of dairy, to being offered a new milk contract

A group of disgruntled sandalwood growers and investors has stepped up its fight to secure the future of the industry in WA's Kimberley

The Northern Territory is experiencing one of its wettest starts to a year on record. Major rivers are flooded, creeks are up and crocodiles are on the move

Researchers have discovered fungicide resistance to both types of the common and destructive barley disease net blotch

A quick look across the country's grain growing regions and you'll see Western Australia is best placed as far as the outlook for crops goes this season

Summerland House Farm at Alstonville in NSW is a popular tourist destination and it also provides employment opportunities for people with disabilities in its cafe and avocado, macadamia and cucumber business. It's also brought seven couples together who have found love on the farm

Gnowrangerup farmer Kevin Wise said he has had 100 out of a mob of 600 sheep stolen or lost to wild dogs over a five month period

Webster's Limited, based a Menindee in Far West New South Wales have been with the NSW Stock Squad to try and find 403 ewes and 96 rams that went missing in December

Australia's supermarket duopoly is gearing up to deal with potentially its biggest disruptor to market share, since German grocery chain Aldi muscled in on its turf

More than 30,000 cattle have left the port of Darwin this year, in the largest January export figures in about 16 years

Over the past few weeks we've been hearing reports from both farmers and police, of sheep rustling in our state's grazing regions. In the Yilgarn, Janis Unkovich says she's had a water trough stolen from a paddock, set well back from the road

Western Rock Lobster prices have remained fairly flat this year despite strong demand from China in the lead up to Chinese New Year celebrations

Pressure is increasingly mounting on federal Labor ahead of a crucial vote that will shape the future of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Murchison gold miner Westgold Resources was forced to temporarily close its Meekatharra mill and two underground mines at the weekend

The commodity forecaster is warning that prolonged dry weather is forcing grain growers to reassess the crops they will grow this year

Despite record rainfalls in some parts of Western Australia's far north this summer, some Gascoyne pastoralists are facing drought-like conditions

Farmers at Boyup Brook, in the state's south-west, are really impressed with the result of a weekend fox hunt, with a final tally of 701 foxes shot and killed, way up on last year's tally of just 50 foxes

Members of the Country Women's Association have gathered on the steps of Parliament House this afternoon to rally against the proposed closure of the Moora residential college

Some large farm businesses in WA are buying power 'straight off the grid' and quoting up to 30 per cent or $50, 000 savings on their bills

The annual country show was once the highlight of the year for small communities across regional Australia, but along with declining populations in the regions, it's faded away. But now after 60 years the tiny Wheatbelt town of Darkan, around 600 kilometres south of Perth, has revived the tradition

This time last year the communities of Hopetoun and Ravensthorpe were cut off from the outside world. Almost a year's worth of rainfall fell over five days isolating the towns, scarring thousands of hectares of farm-land and sadly, claiming two lives. So 12 months on, how are the communities faring?

Farmers in the Northern Agricultural Region are saying this year's season looks very similar to the start of this year's season with plenty of summer rain

They're not high profile like gold or on-trend like lithium, or hard to find like rare earths. But base metals are an essential part of every day life. And after years of hard knocks, both prices and demand are marching upwards, with some of the biggest deposits found in Australia

Agricultural economist Professor Wendy Umberger says while demand for foods that are free range and ethically raised is high, the over-use or miss-use of certain label claims might actually be driving consumers further away from red meat

A Pilbara cattle station is fed up with poachers killing cattle and kangaroos on the station, and leaving them dead in the paddocks

An Australian wine producer has released bottles of wine with labels that actually speak to consumers. It's all thanks to a computerised miracle called Augmented Reality

Aussie Helpers is now in Western Australia. For the last sixteen years the charity organisation has helped those in need in Rural Australia, but mostly in the eastern states

84 year old former Tasmanian farmer Peter Jones will be presented with an award today from the Bureau of Meteorology for collecting rainfall data for more than 50 years

The owner of one of Western Australia's largest sheep operations says climate change and consumer expectations are two of the big challenges facing farmers

More sheep have been stolen in the state's Great Southern, this time $6,000 dollars worth of merino lambs have been stolen from a property in Bendering, about 20 kilometres north of Kondinin

Esperance's only abattoir is back up and running again. The Shark Lake facility,10 kilometres north of Esperance, was placed into administration a year ago. Six months ago it was purchased by Central Agri Group and on Tuesday, the facility received the AQIS tick of approval

China is often the country that comes to mind when thinking about agricultural export markets, but is Australia becoming too reliant on that one market?

A Mukinbudin farmer has thrown his support behind a parliamentary inquiry into compensation measures for GM contamination, saying the agricultural community is still divided over the place of GM in the state

Charity group Aussie Helpers has teamed up with an organisation called Virtualpsychologist to launch a new text counselling service

After a year and a half of campaigning, the mango industry has succeeded in getting an official mango emoji

Queensland's strawberry trade is being threatened after biosecurity breaches into South Australia

The 25th annual Big Country stud Brahman sale at Charters Towers saw 93 per cent of bulls cleared in the ring, with the grey bull sale achieving a top price of $65, 000