A Meat and Livestock Australia outlook report shows the cattle market has begun to fall after 56 weeks at record levels, which should ease pressure on exporters and processors

Shares in West Australian livestock exporter Wellard Limited have fallen by more than 25 per cent following an announcement on the ASX that fore-shadowed dire end of financial year results

New start-up company Farmgate MSU won the judges award and the people's choice award ahead of ten other ag tech entrepreneurs at the Sprout X opening pitch night in Melbourne last week for its plan for mobile, on-farm abattoirs

Seed producer and rum maker Kalyn Fletcher has won the inaugural Farmer of the Year Award at the Kununurra Show's Agricultural Dinner

A recent rise in the price of wheat could not have come at a worse time for embattled West Australian bakery Mias, which has had to buy in wheat at a price 30 per cent higher than what they were paying just a few weeks ago after the company went into voluntary administration

Warralakin farmers Ralf and Celia Duplessis have invested in germination cabinets to grow their own one-leaf-stage barley as stock feed during this dry season and they now they produce around a tonne each day

Pastoralists and Graziers Association president Tony Seabrook says an Australian Story program on ABC TV that portrayed financial and sexual exploitation of farm workers was misleading

Far north Queensland couple converts a heritage-listed maize silo in the Atherton Tablelands into house

West Australian sheep producers were able to take part in the annual ram sale at the Australian Sheep Show in Bendigo at the weekend because it was held on a Sunday, rather than the Monday and good prices have flagged a strong start to the local ram sales, which will begin in August

An international agricultural student exchange scheme that was started by WA farmers and has been running for 31 years will cease next week after the Department of Immigration changed the special program visa rules

Fruit and vegetable growers across Western Australia hope a new scheme to encourage Australians into the horticulture industry will create certainty into the future and help find work for the unemployed

The ACCC may be called in to investigate WA dairy company Brownes after the processor sent new contracts to its suppliers where farmers can be fined for undersupply

Northern Australian cattle producers will begin a class action in the Federal Court, seeking $600 million in damages from the Commonwealth and then Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig, for a ban on the live export trade in 2011

Farming families have stepped in to take over the Wyalkatchem butcher shop closed, with long time farmers becoming apprentice butchers to keep town High Street shopping alive

The mother of murdered British traveller Mia Ayliffe-Chung says Australia's "88 day" visa work scheme needs to be reformed so young people don’t find themselves in dangerous and potentially exploitative situations, but a spokesperson from Queensland farm group GrowCom says the tragic murder has nothing to do with visas for temporary workers

Researchers say farmers need to be more wary about who owns the data they collect about yield performance and productivity, but one WA mixed cropping and livestock farmer says the larger problem exists of how to actually crunch the data collected

Western Australia's southern biosecurity group is calling for funding on wild dog control to be accelerated because flooding through Ravensthorpe in February has caused washouts under fences where dogs can get through

A trail to fit cattle with reflective ear tags to protect cattle on the highway at night proved unsuccessful because dust and grime made it too difficult to see the hi-vis tag, but something needs to be done to fix the dangerous problem

Mercado analyst Robert Hermann is trying to work out whether wool growers should be shearing twice a year, despite the fact there is no premium for shorter wool and therefore no financial incentive, he thinks it might be beneficial

Farmers in the north eastern parts of the West Australian Wheatbelt have decided not to plant a crop this year due to the drought conditions, the Lancaster family says it was too much of a risk because they would have had too little germination

A farming family in Beacon, 300 kilometres north east of Perth, have made the decision to downsize their sheep flock from 7,000 to just 200 because they do not have enough green feed

Kellerberrin farmer Rod Forsyth says he is now grateful for flooding he had in February because even though it felled fences and washed out paddocks, he has been able to establish a crop despite the low autumn and winter rainfall

Kidman Resources has announced it will enter into a joint venture deal with Chilean company SQM, which is one of the leading lithium producers in the world, for the development of its Mt Holland Lithium project near Southern Cross, just days after a legal dispute over ownership of the lithium deposit was settled

An investigation by the Indian Income Tax Department into a pulse price rise in 2015 has brought to light allegations of cartel like behaviour in India's pulse industry

An app that monitors the health of pastoral land in the rangelands is being released this week, its designed to replace the old Gascoyne monitoring system of taking photos at designated monitoring sites and recording information manually

The Grains Industry Association of Western Australia has downgraded its tonnage estimate for the coming harvest to between 10 to 12 million tonnes due to the lack of winter rainfall

Toro Energy's Wiluna uranium project has moved a step closer to actually operating as a mine with environmental approval from the Federal Government, adding to existing State Government approval

New research from Latrobe University looks at what was eaten before white settlement in Australia by examining old bones; the study has found animals eaten included emus and wombats

The CSIRO and Horticulture Innovation Australia are working on the problem of food waste, which has led to the development of a project to turn ugly vegetables into high value food products like fermented vegetables and snack products

From chestnut ale to chestnut ice-cream and even chestnut-fed pork, Western Australia's largest producer of chestnuts is appealing to consumers' tastebuds to raise awareness of the nut

More than 100 people made their way to the Winning Bush Gymkhana at the weekend to camp and compete in a couple of days of motorbike and horse events, despite no advertising before the event it is still hugely popular

A group of young farmers in the Great Southern have started organising balls and social events to try and revive the traditional Bachelor and Spinster (B&S) Balls as a place for young people to meet up and get off the farm for a night

Esperance region farmers welcome recommendations by Economic Regulation Authority to hand over the distribution of the emergency services levy to an independent body.

Will the next agricultural boom in Western Australia be driven by high end products like boutique muesli, Wagyu beef and specialty breads?

At the stroke of midnight, a six-month ban on prawn imports will lapse and product from countries, including Thailand and Malaysia where white spot virus is known to be present, will be allowed back into the country.

Lets meet Francis Reiss. In the 1950's when Australia's wool industry was booming Francis was a young photographer who found himself out on a remote New South Wales station.

Imagine not being allowed to speak your own language in public. That's how Peter Salmon grew up in Western Australia's Gascoyne region.

Two agronomists in WA's northern agriculture region offer their advice on what is shaping up to be a very unusual and disappointing season.

A new player 'flexes its muscles and pushes its chest out to be the second largest buyer of fleece wool'.

Western Australian Meat Marketing Cooperative (WAMMCO) has announced new summer minimum priced lamb contracts for its suppliers in recognition of the pressure of dry conditions facing farmers this year

Jane Keune and her son Perry St Quintin have been working the land on Anthill Farm near Yuna, 125 kilometres north-east of Geraldton, for 22 years, but after the dry growing conditions this year, they fear they could lose their farm

The Minister for Agriculture and Food Alannah MacTiernan has announced the government will commit one point five million dollars towards new opportunities for market access for farmers affected by tomato potato psyllid trade restrictions.

Embattled WA potato growers face new biosecurity threat with the discovery of a new bacteria as the State Government commits $1.5 million to market access for those affected by tomato potato psyllid trade restrictions

Retired farmer and former WA Farmers Federation president Alec Campbell and retired farmer and former State Transport Minister Eric Charlton join the Country Hour to discuss how to cope during drought

West Australian farmers will gain greater access to the fast-growing South East Asian beer market with the opening of a $70 million malting facility in Vietnam on Wednesday

Bioscurity authorities in Queensland have found a new nest of exotic fire ants, 70 kilometres outside the existing fire ant biosecurity zone

An unidentified exotic ant species has been found in Perth and officers from the Department of Primary Industries want to set up surveillance outside the metro area to monitor any spread into farms and native bushland

The mining industry is on the hunt for more workers as commodity prices surge and companies are prepared to train up the local workforce after the demise of the 457 skilled worker visa, but workers must compete with emerging robotics

Eleven West Australian grower organisations will share in close to $4.5 million as part of the second stage of a state government program

A Swedish sportswear company has launched a marketing campaign about "eating wool", or cooking with ingredients like mushrooms that were grow in wool compost, to promote the natural, biodegradable fibre, which Australian Wool Innovation says is an emerging selling point for wool

The price paid for wheat in Western Australia has jumped by between 15 and 20 per cent a tonne due to the dry conditions across southern Australia and globally

West Australian scientists say chemicals used in malaria research could be used to craft new herbicides for crops that work in a different way to common chemicals, such as glyphosate, which means it could be a weapon against herbicide resistance

Technology that can identify consumer preferences by the way they walk are just some of the things show cased to Australian agriculture businesses at a recent conference in New South Wales

Wagyu beef from just the Pilbara is on its way to Asia for the first time, but it will take a two-thousand kilometre detour to south-west processors V&V Walsh in Bunbury to take advantage of an export licence

Farmers across the West Australian Wheatbelt say a small amount of rainfall might be enough to save cereal crops that have been unable to germinate due to lack of rain, but others are still very concerned and say the rain has hardly helped many cropping and livestock farmers at all

A rare albino kangaroo has been photographed on farmland in Western Australia's Great Southern, which is a rare occurrence with numbers of white kangaroos estimated to be only once in every 50,000 to 100,000 animals

The winter racing season has kicked off in the north of Australia, and with somewhat of a bang in the Pilbara, with the signature event the Marble Bar Races Undies Run the signature event

The largest pellet feed supplier in Western Australia says farmers have been forced to wait up to six weeks for livestock feed as dry conditions cause a surge in demand

WAFarmers president Tony York says he wrote an opinion editorial in the newspaper today about the dry season because he says it is important to explain the dire season to people based in cities

Forecasting from the National Australia Bank shows Australian wheat yields are expected to drop by more than a third in 2017 but the figures are compared to last year's crop, which saw huge, record breaking yields

Australians have never had more choice when it comes to craft beers, with independent brewing growing by over tenfold in the decade to 2016, according to a report commissioned by the Independent Brewers Association

A Pilbara fertiliser company is running workshops to get its employees to make lemonade so they learn how to improve efficiency in the workshop

The groundwork for a $35 million irrigated agriculture project near Carnarvon was completed on Tuesday, which paves the way for the release of 400 hectares of land for agricultural development

Australian researchers have found a way to boost plant performance with less fertiliser, which could translate into $300 million in savings for Australian farmers

Australia's largest pomegranate farm lies on a back dirt road out of the tiny town of Wanbi in South Australia's Mallee region