Singaporean businessman Bruce Cheung, who owns Pardoo Station, believes wagyu beef production could be a "billion dollar industry" for the Pilbara

Paul Brown from the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation said pastoral stations like Pardoo need to show minimal effect to local environment to be approved for increased water allocation

One of Australia's largest wagyu beef producers Peter Hughes from Georgina Pastoral Company in central Queensland says Mr Cheung has "an interesting project" but he says he thinks it will work

Australian Wagyu Association president and chairman and Albany wagyu producer Peter Gilmour says it will take many years to create the genetics for a "billion dollar industry, but he thinks it can be done

Record crowds headed to the Kulin Bush Races this year, with more than 5,000 people travelling to the famous event

The State Government has announced Carnegie Clean Energy has won the bid for a multi-million dollar wave energy contract off the Albany coast

Northern Minerals, the company behind Australia's first heavy rare earths mine in the Kimberley has reached a major milestone this week with its trial mining on track to be wrapped up by the end of the year

The plan amaranth has been consumed by people for centuries and is being grown by farmers in southern Western Australia as fodder for Chinese cattle, but the crop could be the key to future food security

Americans on a recent trip to Australia are saying they are watching US President Donald Trump very closely on his decisions on agriculture, as much of rural USA backed him at the 2016 election

A proposal from Andrew Forrest's Mindaroo Station to build ten 'upside-down leaky weirs' to help drought proof the property has been rejected by the Ashburton Shire Council

A Victorian dairy farmer will be featured on Landline on ABC TV this weekend to tell his story of mental health issues and substance abuse to raise awareness for World Mental Health Day next week

Grains exports from the Black Sea region could become an increasingly serious competitive threat to the Australian grains industry as production from the Ukraine and Russia increases

A representative from the largest agribusiness holding in the Black Sea, Konstantin Litvinskiy from Kernel Holdings, says Ukrainian farmers are mostly focussed on sunflower seeds, corn and wheat

The general manager of marketing and trade with Australia's largest wheat exporter CBH Group, Jason Craig says he has been impressed with how far progressed the Ukraine is in agribusiness development

West Australian farmers who took part in a recent tour of Ukraine grains farms say producers in Australia should "be worried" about the significant growth from the Black Sea

A major Queensland cattle producer has struck a deal with an international superannuation company, in a move which could open the door for other family-managed properties seeking investors

The Sheepmeat Council of Australia wants to change the definition of a lamb to a sheep less than 12 months of age or a sheep which doe not have any permanent teeth in wear

Live export cattle out of the north are currently worth more than domestic cattle in the south, which comes at a great time for Pilbara pastoralists who are preparing for a shipment out of Port Hedland

But the CEO of the Northern Territory Livestock Exporters Association, Stuart Kemp told Lydia Burton this year Australian cattle prices have been somewhat "out of whack"

Pilbara police are warning people not to go shooting on cattle stations without permission after Munda Station, near Port Hedland reported ten unauthorised vehicles shooting on the station in one month

It has been a tough year for the northern cattle industry with exporters finding it incredibly difficult to fill orders; there has been 140,000 less cattle moved out of the north this year, compared to last year

Police have uncovered a wool theft racket where high quality Australian wool has been swapped with a low-quality substitute

Wool Producers Australia says cases like this can threaten the nation's reputation for high quality wool and the perpetrators have no place in the industry

Harvest estimates in the state's most northern grain growing region, the Geraldton Port Zone, have more than doubled after farmers received rainfall in September

The Kwinana Port Zone has also lifted its harvest estimate for this season, again thanks to the rain in recent weeks with CBH is predicting a four to four and a half million tonne crop

Some farms in the Albany Port Zone had frost damage and some were flooded, but CBH zone manager Greg Thornton says those weather events have not had much of an impact on harvest estimates

The Bunbury Port has posted record trade figures for the 2016-17 year with grains production and the resources sector driving growth

Leonie Noble from Geraldton has been inducted into the National Seafood Hall of Fame for her passionate and positive contributions to the Australian fishing industry

Wongan Hills farmer, piggery operator and orchardist Sue Middleton is one of two farmers on the eight-member board of the Grains Research and Development Corporation and she is eager to represent the interests of West Australian farmers

WAFarmers grains group president Duncan Young says that he thinks the GRDC board should have more farmer representatives so that it reflects the interests of farmers

Up to 60 Rio Tinto train drivers are to be made redundant in the next year, with increasing automation in the mining industry after the company's first fully autonomous heavy haul train journey

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has taken its campaign against the State Government plan to increase gold royalty to the steps of Parliament today to say 3,000 jobs could be lost

WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt says he felt he had a productive discussion with the CME, but he says he is not likely to change his mind

Wet weather in Esperance has delayed the official start to the 2017-18 grains harvest, but CBH Zone Manager Mick Daw says he is preparing to receive one of the biggest crops ever in the region

New data limits for those using the Sky Muster satellite network began in October, doubling the data allowance to a maximum of 300 giga-bytes a month and peak use to 75 giga-bytes

Geraldton Police Aboriginal liaison officer Bobby Pepper took a group of indigenous school kids to a farm to watch 300 sheep being shorn for a holiday excursion

Elders livestock manager Tom Marron says producers who are planning to sell stock should do so now while prices for good quality cattle are up

Grains cooperative the CBH Group will pay its highest ever rebates back to growers, at $12.75 a tonne, which means CBH will spend $158 million in rebates in total

Cropping overtook beef and cattle as the most valuable agricultural export for the 2016-17 year with a 49 per cent increase in the total grains production out of Australia, according to Rural Bank

Mining companies in northern Australia prepare for the cyclone season on remote sites to protect worker safety

Pure Minerals executive director Sean Keenan says the first samples from its Battery Hub site, about 30 kilometres east of Mount Augustus, look promising

A Rio Tinto iron ore train has travelled nearly 100 kilometres without a driver on board in what is believed to be the first fully autonomous heavy-haulage train journey ever completed in Australia

The Ord River District Cooperative is running a feedlot trial to investigate whether crops like corn and chickpeas grown in the Ord could successfully fatten cattle

Futurist Craig Rispin says sophisticated breeding programs, vertical fish farms, robot factories and huge deep sea fishing platforms will shape the future of aquaculture and seafood production in Australia

Boyup Brook farmer Harris Thompson says it is worth the three and a half hour journey to Perth for the Royal Show because a 'show ribbon' can mean massive premiums for stock

After a 16 year wait, roughly 36,000 Australian wool growers with shares in the Graziers Investment Company could receive final payment from previous wool industry schemes within four months

Prominent Aboriginal business leader Warren Mundine says the process of getting Native Title land rights and working out Indigenous Land Use agreements is too long and drawn out

Flooding has been causing havoc on roads in the south of the state and one Great Southern farmer says he is fed up with pulling stranded motorists off the flooded section of highway next to his property

The mango season in Western Australia has begun, with the first trays of Kensington Pride mangoes getting picked and packed in Kununurra this week

The dry start to the grain growing season and delayed germination for many parts of the agricultural region appears to have saved some crops from severe frost damage this year

There is a plentiful supply of lower grade hay after last season across WA, so one contractor says it might not be profitable for farmers to cut frost-damaged crops for hay this year

Boyanup dairy farmer Victor Rodwell begun planning early for dry winter and spring conditions and produced a crop of haylage after spending $100,000 in feed last year

The Perth Royal Show will hold its first camp draft in 12 years today and Janice Bell from Thangoo Station made the 2500km trip from Broome with her horse this week just for the draft

The Sheepmeat Council of Australia and Meat and Livestock Australia say sheep producers should not mules prime lambs and the two groups are encouraging farmers to cease the practice

Many farmers say there is no viable alternative to mulesing and Scaddan stud breeder David Vandenberghe says it is therefore unrealistic and unreasonable for the industry bodies to push for non-mulesed lamb

Last season Australia reaped a record breaking crop, but as the 2017/18 harvest approaches it is becoming clear that will not generate the same yields

The rainfall in the past few days has been described as a "game changer" by farmers in the eastern wheatbelt region of Western Australia and in some cases it will help to double yields

But the rain has not been welcome in all areas of WA, south coast farmer John Howard has lost access to most of his paddocks after receiving 190 mm of rain

The State Government is looking for three pastoral groups to share in up to $4 million to build wild dog fencing cells as part of funding from the wild dog action plan, which was released in November last year

The first West Australian onions of the season will hit the shelves in the next few weeks, though a grower in Carnarvon is unsure why his crop has come up six weeks early

Kojonup farmer Digby Stretch has been awarded the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA rural achievement award for 2017

Federal Government confirms $93 million of Landcare funding will be secured for Indigenous Protected Areas, which has been welcomed by Daniel Oades, the coordinator of Bardi Jawi in the WA Kimberley

Regional Land Partnerships Program, which funds 56 natural resource management organisations, will receive $450 million, but Northern Ag Catchments Council CEO Richard McClellan says it lacks detail

Author Charlie Massey, who documented the rise and fall of the wool industry reserve price scheme says the “man in the mirror” scandal shows industry has not learnt from the mistakes that led to the 90s crash

The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority has launched an investigation, after a man injured his leg on a Woodside oil rig

Charles Sturt University Professor Jim Pratley has been researching the evolution of agricultural education and has found that there are now more women than men studying agriculture at university

Australian cattle producers have been enjoying record high prices in the past 18 months, but prices have started to slide and ABARES has now downgraded its forecast even further

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association Conference focus on Northern Cattle Industry and questions over the red tape surrounding Native Title, as Tyne Logan reports

The first ground has been broken at Nambeelup, to mark the start of a broad ranging water-use study in the Peel Region, which has been identified as an area for intensive agriculture development

Researchers have discovered a variety of strawberry with up to four times as much folate than currently available varieties, but the fruit will still take a few years of trials

NSW farmer Jim McDonald was so angry about the National Party policy of reducing renewable subsidies to zero in 5 years time, that he wrote Barnaby Joyce an open, which now has 2,100 signatures

Western Australia's main grain handler the CBH Group, has been fined $37,500 after an incident at its Bodallin grain receival site in February 2014 where a worker sustained a serious hand injury

The Kimberley's biggest cattle shipment of the year left Broome port over the long-weekend, with around 13,000 head of cattle on board the MV Ocean Drover, which is destined for Indonesia

A Kimberley pastoralist has had what he calls a 'fire-tornado' rip through his property, the fire, which is thought to be deliberately lit, has burnt about 90 per cent of Leopold Downs Station, 440,000 ha in total

Simmental cattle from Western Australia are increasingly in demand in China, where buyers are willing to pay significantly more than domestic prices

Online platforms are booming as Australian producers are changing the way they buy and sell livestock, with one such platform, AuctionsPlus, having just recorded a record year for sheep and cattle sales

Green Range farmer Ian Smith from Western Australia's south coast has recorded 150 mm of rain over the weekend, which has flooded approximately 20 per cent of his barley and canola crops

The West Australian State Government has begun looking at ways farmers could minimise risks to their business; MLC Darren West says its time to move from insuring crops and think about income insurance

The Royal Agricultural Society of WA is working to shift the focus of the Perth Royal Show back to agriculture, which includes interactive, educational displays