A tropical low off the Kimberley coast is expected to turn into Tropical Cyclone Hilda at about 8:00pm this evening. DFES Kimberley's operations area manager, Glenn Hall, says a yellow alert issued for people in Cape Leveque to Wallal and in the surrounding areas.

Country Downs Station, north of Broome, has received more than 100 millimetres of rain. Operations manager, Andrew Miller, says there are looking wet, and it will be a great set up for the 2018 cattle season.

A determination on the class action against the Gillard Government's decision to suspend live exports to Indonesia in 2011 has been pushed back 12 months. An outcome was expected this month but the judge has now asked for more information before compensation can be discussed which has meant the case has been extended. Former CEO of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association, Tracey Hayes, is continuing to facilitate the class action on behalf of industry.

At the 11th hour Australia has secured it's place in the lucrative EU export canola market, Aboriginal business people from all over the state travelled to Yalgoo late last week to find out how they could be part of upgrade work that's planned for the state barrier fence, Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Group and the Shire of Ashburton will hold their first mediation meetings today over a controversial proposal to install leaky weirs in the Pilbara, some parents in remote parts of Western Australia are considering relocating to another state because they're so unhappy the School of the Air program is being axed, we explore the idea behind Rio Tinto's new Koodaideri mine in the Pilbara which will have a large autonomous workforce and a bittersweet win for the Gilbert family at this year's National Wine show in Canberra, it was the last vintage shared with family patriarch Jim before he died from motor neurone disease.

Western Australia's Education Minister has admitted she has not done the sums to figure out how she can keep her promise to maintain important aspects of the soon to be axed School of the Air program, as part of the suite of cuts made to education this week, it's been revealed that some of the money raised from farming activities will be cut to the five WA colleges of agriculture and the Esperance farm school, a consortium of Wheatbelt shires has collaborated to build its own telecommunications network to address costly and unreliable internet and limited access to the NBN network, as countries scramble to save declining honeybee populations, the Australian industry is divided on how to best protect local bees from their biggest threat, the varroa mite and one idea includes artificial insemination, Mt Barker cattle sale and the final wool sale results for 2017.

* There's been anger and frustration over the shock announcement yesterday to axe the school of the air in WA. Minister for Education Sue Ellery says consultation will begin with those impacted in January next year, education experts warn that any move which reduces face-to-face learning time or cuts school camps would be "short-sighted", the State Government's Education cuts also include closing the Moora and Northam and boarding facilities. Eneabba mother Carolyn Bruse says she's not sure what to do with her son at Moora residential college and a daughter who was going to join him in 2018, tribute's are flowing this morning for Kununurra farmer and icon Spike Dessert who passed away this week, the United Nations wants international action on the storage of mining waste in dams and embryo transfer in the horse industry is gathering steam following improved success of the procedure and the potential benefits to breeders of performance and competition horses.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants better regulation in the grain export market after its Bulk Wheat Ports Monitoring Report found concerns over competition in South Australia and Western Australia

Curtin University professor Dr Fran Lopez says scientists and farmers need to keep moving to stay ahead of fungicide resistance

A CSIRO program for the management of invasive species and diseases is investigating how weeds could be genetically modified to destroy themselves

A company that produces hybrid seeds and genetically modified crops is advocating for the increased use of gene editing to create improvements in food production

The Kimberley region is set to have regular shipping access to Asia within the next two years with a proposed service to run between Singapore and northern Australia

A group of 38 young people from around Australia have been announced as winners of the annual Heywire storytelling competition

Winds up to 100 kilometres an hour have ripped apart a machinery shed and uprooted trees during a storm in Cranbrook in Western Australia's Great Southern

New Zealand grain grower Eric Watson talks about the process of obtaining an official world record after he set the record for the highest ever yielding wheat crop with 16.7 tonnes per hectare

Western Australia's environmental regulator has approved plans for the construction of a kaolin mine which will double as a chemical waste dump in Yilgarn

Construction will now officially kick off on a railway connecting iron ore deposits in the central Pilbara, to the Balla Balla iron ore export facility, between Karratha and Port Hedland

It has ben revealed that agribusinesses are among some of the biggest companies shown to be not paying tax in Australia after the Tax Office has released data of 732 companies that did not pay corporate tax last year

More than 20,000 cattle have left the Darwin Port in just eight days on seven separate livestock vessels, as Top End flood plains are cleared before the wet season arrives

A new documentary has highlighted the role that local Aboriginal people played in establishing farming country in the Wheatbelt

The community of Newdegate has been commended for bringing a header fire that burnt 1,500 ha under control at the weekend

Peak industry body AUSVEG will seek to charge vegetable growers a levy to improve the response to pests and diseases, following the incursion of the tomato potato psyllid

The Australian Professional Rodeo Association has rejected calls from the RSPCA to ban bull riding, following an incident in Adelaide on Saturday night where a bull broke its leg

A new report by BIS Oxford Economics has suggested that the Australian mining downturn is almost over

Professional prospector Tony Pilkington says there has been an increase in the numbers of people prospecting in Western Australia

South Coast farming family is set to harvest 20,000 tonnes of crop and is running a massive operation with eight headers and 23 staff

Forecasting for the future of the Australian beef sector has been described as "confronting" with 75 per cent of Australian beef producers expected to be running at a loss within the next 12 years

The Grains Industry Association of Western Australia December crop report has found that yields will much higher than estimated six months ago due to some significant spring rains

Farmers who grow genetically modified crops in Western Australia could be held liable for GM contamination under a proposal put forward to the State Government, but farmers argue further protections are not necessary

A Federal committee report tabled in Parliament on Friday has found that Australia needs a comprehensive suite of new laws to stamp out modern slavery

Trials for three new mango varieties under a national mango breeding program have had some promising results in Kununurra this season

A Queensland climatologist has paired up with two farming organisations to run workshops that will help farmers conduct their own weather forecasting

The Western Rock Lobster industry is worth half a billion dollars a year to the State economy and it supports more than 2,400 full time jobs, but the industry wants to double the value

Western Australia's only frozen chip processor is vying for a spot to supply hot chips to Perth Stadium and the director says it would help solve a potato glut

West Australian potato seed grower Colin Ayres says farmers across Western Australia have been let down by the response to the most significant pest incursion in 25 years, the tomato potato psyllid

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development acting executive director of biosecurity and regulation Mia Carbon says government agencies will need to improve biosecurity responses

Regional representation in the Federal Cabinet is set for a shakeup after Victorian senator Bridget McKenzie beat her colleagues in a ballot to become the party's new deputy leader

Wool Producers Australia director and Livestock Council of WA Farmers vice president Steve McGuire supports a federal audit into Australian Wool Innovation

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest is set to become one of the state's biggest mango producers on a property just north of Carnarvon

Retired Dongara rock lobster fisherman John Fitzhardinge is fishing for baby lobster called purelus as part of a research project with the University of Western Australia

The Senate has referred Australian Wool Innovation to the National Audit Office after concerns were raised over corporate governance and how its spending taxpayer money

A new factory set to produce 400 tonnes of sandalwood oil a year was officially opened in Kalgoorlie yesterday, owned by local indigenous traditional owners

The Fair Work Commission has recommended that maintenance workers receive a penalty rate safeguard when they work 12-hour shifts for more than 21 days

Russia has muscled into Australia's traditional grain markets in south-east Asia and the Middle East as grain growers face a slide in winter crop production, exporters say

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association says the majority of grain growers in Western Australia do not support mandatory disclosure of grain stocks

An agricultural banking analyst says blockchain digital technology could be the gamechanger, particularly for ethical and organic producers

The jury is out on new non-fracking technology, which is close to commercialisation, as critics still need more convincing