Western Australian grain growers have been taking advantage of the good weather during the month of November and have now delivered a total of 9.5 million tonnes of grain to CBH's receival sites around the wheatbelt

The Federal Government has finally announced its long-awaited plans for the Wine Equalisation Tax rebate

WA's $650 million wine industry has been acknowledged in the final rewrite of the Wine Equalisation Tax passed in parliament today

Michael Nixon is a fruit and vegetable grower in Carnarvon. He's happy the backpacker tax rate has finally been sorted but says backpacker numbers in the Pilbara have been well down all year

Andrew Hoadley is chair of Great Southern Wine Producers Association. He's also relieved a decision has finally been made because he says backpackers are so important to WA's wine industry

A rum factory in the Kimberley region has created a new spiced rum, which ingredients include the boab nut

Labor has announced it will move and support a 13 per cent backpacker tax

Ley Webster runs 2 Workin Oz, an employment agency offering farm skills training in the grains sector. She's convinced her business will shut down overnight, if the backpacker tax is not settled today and a 32.5 per cent tax becomes effective as of the first of January

A regional business leader is calling for employers across Australia to boycott superannuation payments to backpackers

The first monsoonal burst for northern WA is likely to arrive later this month, although the current models are making it hard to predict

Timm House from Gnowangerup was sitting in his truck waiting to deliver grain at the Cranbrook site and received a call to tell him he had been drafted by Geelong to play in the AFL

Western Australia's main grain handler the CBH Group and Brookfield Rail have signed a new interim rail access agreement for 2017

A feedlot on a Pilbara cattle station has got such strong demand for its direct-marketed beef that it's considering doubling production

The Boyanup cattle market went to a two-day sale this week due to an influx of numbers

In Canberra, last minute maneuvering on the backpacker tax has once again left farmers in limbo

Australia's canola farmers are tipped to deliver a much bigger harvest this year

The Borden community in the Great Southern has come together to set up a volunteer based pop up cafe, open for the six weeks of harvest, to look after the truckies and CBH workers over their busiest time of year

In the Pilbara a chopper pilot and pastoralist, Brent Smoothy, can now call himself a miner too. He's discovered a potash resource, about 160 kilometres south-east of Newman

An independent market analyst warns that the current high iron ore price could fall just as sharply as it's risen this year

In the coming weeks Australia will mark the second anniversary of deals with Korea and Japan, and the first anniversary of the China FTA. So what impact are they having?

First grade fruit in the Perth markets is now fetching between $25 and $35 a tray, which is half the price growers were getting a few weeks ago

The State Government's Investment Ready: WA Agribusiness Report identifies a range of local and overseas investors who are interested in teaming-up with WA based businesses wanting to take their product to the next level

A major national survey of farmers' attitudes to climate change, has produced some pretty stark and maybe even unexpected results

A group of tech-savvy high school students is giving the experts a hand, to try to tackle pests in crops

It sounds like some farmers in Western Australia's northern grain growing area are having some success experimenting with chickpeas this season

In Yinnar South in Victoria there's a farming family working hard to create some eye catching health messages to promote breast cancer awareness

Indigenous cattlemen and women from across Australia's north have travelled to Kununurra for WA's first Indigenous Cattlemen's Workshop

A shire in Western Australia's Great Southern region wants to trial security cameras on roads to try to catch thieves who have been targeting farms

The long and winding road to a backpacker tax resolution appears to be almost at an end

At Sydney wholesale markets, fruit traders are welcoming the resolution of the backpacker tax

WA Farmers CEO Stephen Brown is just excited that the back-packer tax debate might finally be wrapping up

Frost has dashed the confidence of West Australian farmers this season by 24 per cent

Australia's gold production increased two per cent in the September quarter

Members of the Northern Mallee declared species group were trooping through the scrub with Agriculture Minister Mark Lewis on the weekend to show him where they'll spend $6.5 million recently allocated under the State's wild dog plan for the Esperance extension of the barrier fence

A new beef industry project called the North South Beef Alliance hopes to see an extra 30,000 cattle sent from northern pastoral properties to farms in the south of WA for backgrounding

The new National Farmers' Federation president says the apolitical role of the organisation is now more important than ever

A shipment of corn has left the Kimberley port of Wyndham this week, as part of a new export deal for farmers in the Ord Irrigation Scheme

The Senate has rejected the Coalition's backpacker tax proposal, and has thrown its weight behind a 10.5 per cent rate

It's almost a month overdue, but a $12 million potato grower deregulation adjustment package has finally been released

Another twist in the state's dairy industry drama today with processor Harvey Fresh offering contracts to five dairy farmers it had planned to dump in January

The table grape harvest has started in Carnarvon, a week or so later this year

A new CBH receival site near Albany is officially opened and operational

A Koorda man has described being attacked by a group of dogs while fencing on his property last week

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A pack of what's understood to be wild dogs has attacked a man while he was fencing on a property north west of Koorda in the Wheatbelt

Beef processor Harvey Beef is trying to improve its relationship with northern cattle producers

An isolated storm which ripped through a handful of farms in the Kimberley's Ord Irrigation Scheme has put a serious dent in WA's papaya supply

A $120 million plan to turn five million hectares of former pastoral land in Western Australia into conservation parks managed by Indigenous rangers has been met with a sceptical response from the pastoral industry

On Anna Plains Station, 250 kilometres south of Broome, there's been an exciting new arrival this week. A Wagyu calf has been born from one of the station's grey Brahman heifers

On Nita Downs Station in the Kimberley the Forshaw family has invested in a centre pivot, which is currently irrigating its first crop of sorghum and rhodes grass

On Jill Vella's South Gippsland deer farm, not one part of the animal goes to waste

In the last few days there have been media reports that a Chinese bid worth more than a billion dollars could secure a 50 per cent stake in the super pit

The best hay season in twenty years but prices are unlikely to match it, that's the opinion of two industry experts as the nation's contractors pump out endless rolls of hay in paddocks across Australia

The WA Government's push to cut the water allocation for stage 1 of the Kimberley's Ord Irrigation Scheme will be fought in the State Administrative Tribunal this week

The head of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest, says Rio Tinto's decision to cut jobs in its West Australian iron ore division just before Christmas is bad timing for workers

Resource analyst Peter Strachan says the job cuts at Rio are part of an ongoing program of staff cuts at the company over the past 18 months

Laurie Marshall was looking forward to retirement after a career as a broad acre farmer when he purchased a couple dozen acres in the south west covered in pomegranate trees

Landholders are being commended on their efforts to control locusts this year, which has meant an unexpected drop in hatchings

There is now unanimous support from everyone involved in Australia's wool industry for an online wool selling system

Dr Anna MacDonald from the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra has been developing cheap techniques to examine DNA in predator scat