Meat and Livestock Australia are fighting a legal battle in the Federal Court in Melbourne against two US agribusinesses from holding a patent over what they claim is almost two-thirds of the entire bovine genome

Opposition from meat processors has forced Meat and Livestock Australia to downsize a new carcass measurement technology scheme from a rollout in 150 abattoirs to just five

Potato growers are preparing to face massive oversupply as the full effect of tomato potato psyllid trade restrictions are felt, Potato Growers Association president Simon Moltoni says the local market is already flooded

Grain growers across the West Australian Agricultural Region are celebrating the arrival of some much-needed rain to kick off their seeding program

Northern cattle company Kimberley Agricultural and Pastoral Company, run by a syndicate of Indigenous traditional owner groups, is on track to become a major player in the Kimberley's cattle industry

Mataranka in the Northern Territory played host to the NT's, and possibly Australia's, first buffalo campdraft

Wellard Limited chief executive officer Mauro Balzarini says Chinese group Fulida as majority shareholder and appointing Fulida executive Kanda Lu as a director solidifies the relationship between Australia's largest livestock exporter and China

The management of Bovine Johnes Disease in the West Australian cattle industry is now at odds with management in every other state, which could start to have a negative effect on how livestock is traded interstate

South East Premium Wheatgrowers Association has launched a book, Settling The Dust, which contains case studies of farmers who were impacted by the devastating blaze and how they got back on their feet

WA Chief Scientist Peter Klinken gave the opening address at the Ag Institute of Australia WA Division and South West Science Council joint conference and says that it is vital that governments support funding and investment in agriculture

Research shows Chinese investors in Australia need to understand they must get attain a "social licence to operate" and win over locals when making large-scale investments in agriculture

The CSIRO will receive $9 million towards research into dung beetles in to study how the beetles contribute to soil health

An inner city born and bred teacher has given up on the bright lights and cold Melbourne winters for life as a governess on a remote Top End cattle station

Chinese owned Fulida Group has become the majority shareholder in Australia's largest livestock exporting company after buying more shares through Wellard's recent capital raising program

After 13 years of being locked out of the Chinese market, US beef exports will be allowed back into China under a deal to be finalised in July

A national initiative, Fair Farms, to stamp out worker exploitation in the horticulture sector has been developed by Queensland horticulture lobby group Growcom

Vegetables WA CEO John Shannon says Fair Farms is a good first step but more pressure needs to be put on the labour hire firms, not farmers and State Government could be playing more of a role in regulating the sector

A West Australian commercial insect grower says he has found a natural predator that will reduce infestations of the tomato potato psyllid

The Gascoyne is already known as somewhat of a 'food bowl', but there are hopes to create a whole new brand for the region based on cutting food waste and developing manufacturing opportunities

South Australian woman Joy White dehydrates and powders fruits and vegetables for use in smoothies, baking or barbecue rubs, often using 'ugly' food that is destined for waste

The new chief executive officer of advocacy group Farmers for Climate Action Verity Morgan-Schmidt wants to substantially grow the organisation, as it looks to boost its lobbying capacity

The median value of Australian farmland increased by 9.3 per cent last year according to Rural Bank but in Western Australia the rise was just over three per cent, which a state valuer says could be explained by land values being tied to production

One of Australia's largest chicken producers Ingham's has announced a $70 million expansion of its farming and processing operations in Western Australia with a new site to be established at Muchea

A run of good seasons and better prices has buoyed farmers, who are prepared to boost spending both on and off farms and West Australian farmers are most likely to invest in new technology, according to a CommBank survey

Nominations for Kondinin Group and ABC Rural Farmer of the Year Awards are now open and Gold Coast cane farmer Matt Keith, who took out the top prize last year says it's been a boost to his business

A West Australian company is developing a breeding process for black fly that will turn food waste into fly larvae, to create a food source for farmed fish, chickens and perhaps even pigs

The West Australian citrus harvest is just about to get into full swing with naval oranges and mandarins growing near Moora soon to be on the shelves of Asian supermarkets and local retailers

Two years on from the discovery of the devastating soil disease Panama Tropical Race 4, $16 million has been committed to biosecurity research for banana growers

A Western Australian feedlot operator is hoping the installation of artificial shade over his pens will protect his livestock in summer and potentially increase the weight of his cattle

A pig farmer in the mid-west of WA says lower grain prices have helped ease the burden of a significant drop in pork prices, which have fallen by 10 per cent in the past year

An inquest into the death of a 22 year old pearl diver in 2012 has begun in Perth today and the court has heard an safety measures that were in place were insufficient

A growing number of farms in northern Australia are bypassing the backpackers turn to the Seasonal Worker Program to fill labour gaps

The Pastoralists and Graziers Association says members are frustrated by comments aired on ABC TV by the owners of Wooleen Station advocating for a relaxed approach to dingo and wild dog control in order to keep kangaroo numbers in check

Chinese consumers of specially marked Australian Olive Oil will soon be able to scan a label on the bottle to confirm its authenticity and meet the producer via a personalised video

Talk of renewable energy, next generation batteries and gold mines are all loosening purse strings around the world as investors look to fund the next wave of mining projects

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority struggles to deal with an exodus of highly qualified staff since the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce announced he would move the agency from Canberra to his own regional electorate

Wheat genome researcher credits "big data" with allowing him to map the wheat genome and advance agricultural plant genetics

A project to strap a mobile spore sampler to the top of a country school bus aims to detect airborne pests in cropping areas

The Grains Industry Association of Western Australia has increased the estimated total state cropping area by half a million hectares, which would see just under 8 million hectares cropped in 2017

Grain handler CBH Group breaks an April shipping record with 1.6 million tonnes shipped for the month following the record West Australian grains harvest

Miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group have both announced plans this week to prioritise local and Aboriginal business when employing contractors

Sandalwood company Quintis experiences a horror week as its credit rating downgraded further and it faces a possible class action

Wongan Hills farmer Sue Middleton features as part of the Invisible Farmer project and says there is a "grass" ceiling within agribusiness that restricts women from reaching the upper levels of management and boards

The national body representing mining and exploration companies says the Federal Government has betrayed the sector by making a decision to dump an exploration incentive program.

Apples, pears, and stone fruit will be able to resume trade into all states from WA, after an emergency meeting on the exotic pest this week. Strawberries and leafy vegetables will also be allowed to trade again, with new measures including washing, targeted inspection, or secure packaging. But there’s no joy for potato seed growers who are days off writing their crop off for the year.

Australia's longest running pearl farm has enjoyed an extremely rare moment this week. The Brown family who pearl in waters north of Broome discovered two natural pearls in one shell, something that's never happened in the 70 years they've been running the business.

There are calls for regional and rural Australia to be exempt from a new levy on businesses who hire foreign workers on the new skills shortage visa, which replaces the scrapped 457 visa. From March 2018, businesses would be required to pay between $1,200 and $1,800 each year for every foreign worker they employ on the new temporary work visa, and a once-off payment of up to $5000 for those on a permanent visa.

So who does the new visa levy effect? There's been a lot of confusion around who the new system is targeted at and the industries that will be impacted.

A crop report released overnight by the U-S Department of Agriculture is tipping a nearly 30 per cent drop in Australian wheat production for the coming season.

The Livestock and Rural Transporters Association of Western Australia says the Minister for Agriculture failed to notify industry of a major policy change that will affect livestock transporters

A West Australian avocado exporter says the demand for the product has become so frenzied in Asian countries that importers will pay just about anything to get their hands on product

Carnarvon banana growers in Western Australia's Gascoyne region have reduced food wastage by more than 90 per cent, thanks to industry collaboration, and value-adding efforts like turning “seconds” into ice cream

The first watermelons of the season have been picked in the Kimberley’s Ord Irrigation Scheme and growers say fruit is in great condition

CBH Group updates on major infrastructure upgrades going on in each of its port zones as part of a broad rationalisation plan

A Perth labour hire company has been forced to back-pay 19 workers more than $20,000 after the Fair Work Ombudsman found the employees, most of which were foreign nationals, were underpaid

A pioneer of the West Australian sheep meat industry Peter "Polly" Trefort has been recognised for helping to transform the sector and has been inducted into the Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia Hall of Fame

New technology aimed at helping producers predict the weight of their livestock will use real time data from things like automatic weigh stations and satellite imagery to provide information

Agronomists in the US state of Kansas say it will still be weeks before the true extent of damage to the states' crops is fully understood following a recent snow storm

The West Midlands Group will investigate whether two successive years of break crops is twice as good at improving soil health as a single year break crop

WAFarmers dairy section president Michael Partridge has met with the Minister for Agriculture and Food Alannah MacTiernan to ask for assistance in protecting farmers during times of oversupply

David Inall will become the new CEO of Australian Dairy Farmers after experience in crisis management in the agricultural sector such as the Australian live export ban in 2011 and the global bird flue outbreak

The Federal Budget is expected to include funding for improved mobile blackspot coverage and the live export industry when it is handed down on Tuesday

Food processors investigate freeze-drying agricultural 'seconds' produce as a value-adding technique to reduce waste

Queensland researchers are getting closer to commercial trials for a horticulture robot that can pick individual pieces of fruit and vegetables

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has ruled the rival mobile service providers will not be able to use existing Telstra towers to increase roaming

Australian live cattle exports to Indonesia have been in steady decline since January as high cattle prices put pressure on trade

Mangoes from India have been exported to Australia for the first time, with the inaugural consignment of around 400 trays landing in Sydney this week

Researchers behind a project to map every commercial avocado, mango and macadamia tree in Australia have called on citizen scientists to contribute by taking roadside pictures of orchards and uploading them

An appeal by dairy processor Parmalat to its suppliers for a "pain share" deal to help pay to truck milk interstate at times of oversupply has been rejected by farmers and lobby group WAFarmers says it could have been explained better

The first vineyard in Margaret River, Vasse Felix, is celebrating its 50th anniversary by remembering its founder Dr Tom Cullity, who planted the first vines

Wine writer Ray Jordan says the growth of the region was originally slowed by bureaucratic barriers but it quickly because a global leader in wine

The wool market has enjoyed another strong week with a number of microns reaching five year highs