Four cattle stations in the Kimberley have officially been sold for $100 million, in what's understood to be a record price tag for the region's cattle industry

Queensland cattle baron Peter Hughes added one of central Queensland's best grazing properties to his family's extensive portfolio, with the settlement of Tumbar station for more than $60 million dollars

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau says contaminated fuel was the cause of a fatal helicopter crash on a north Australian cattle station last year

Australian Wool Innovation has delivered its annual report in Sydney this morning, outlining plans to target leisure wear and bolster staff numbers in regions close to key markets

With the start of the grains harvest comes the start of the true damage and assessment of the September frost events

"I think he'd be pretty proud of us." That's how 19 year old Tom Curnow feels, a year after taking over the family farm with twin brother Riley, following the death of their father in the Esperance fires

The Costa Group has partnered with Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management to help it boost investments

WA Apiarists Society says local honey producers must maintain constant vigilance against bacterial disease

Today marks one year since a devastating bushfire claimed the lives of four people near Esperance in the state's south east

Researchers at the University of Western Australia glued tiny tracking computers to 100 bees to study a serious bee health threat

Grain is starting to trickle in to receival bins around the state as harvest kicks off

The watermelon harvest is all done and dusted for the year in the East Kimberley's Ord Irrigation Scheme, but over in the West Kimberley, the harvest is really starting to heat up!

Have you ever dreamed of marketing your raw product the way you think it deserves; of crafting it to the highest standard yourself and then retailing it? It's a dream that has come to fruition for a farming family from the New South Wales central west

In a move which has shocked cattle researchers and breeders, two American companies are trying to patent the bovine genome in Australia

It looks like shearers will soon face drug testing, with a new national wool industry taskforce strongly supporting that plan as a way to tackle ice and other drug abuse in sheds

When something is well made, it lasts the distance, and that's the case with an open cab plot harvester currently being put through its paces in Western Australia

A Western Australian stone fruit grower says thousands of kilograms of his fruit look set to go in the bin

Indonesia's Trade Minister says the government is willing to allow live cattle imports from Mexico, Brazil and even Spain, in an effort to reduce the price of beef across Indonesia

Booming sales of beer in the US have helped Australian grain handler Graincorp offset difficult returns from the grains and oils business

The leader of a biosecurity group in Western Australia's south-east says more sheep and small livestock will be reintroduced to the state when fences are built to keep out wild dogs

It may have moved away from its mantra of beef self-sufficiency for now, but Indonesia has long term plans to build its own herds

Pastoralists in the Murchison region say they have been hung out to dry by the state government's wild dog action plan

The WA Government is asking residents of the Kimberley to collect cane toads, so it can make cane toad sausages

A big proponent of farming by the moon's cycles is Vanya Cullen, managing director one of the oldest, and largest wineries in the Margaret River region, Cullen Wines

The machines and their volunteer operators came to Peter Waterhouse's property on Sunday and harvested over one thousand hectares of crop for him. They did that because Peter was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year, and trips to Perth for treatment had held up his harvesting operation

An Albany brewer is hoping a boost in the local craft beer industry will help encourage local fruit and grain producers into the brewing market

The state's long awaited wild dog action plan gives livestock producers a little bit of security for funding and controlling wild dogs into the future

Western Australian company Blackham Resources is making the tantalizing move from gold explorer to gold producer

Wesfarmers Chairman, Michael Chaney, used his speech at the company's AGM in Perth yesterday to tell shareholders the plan to hike taxes for iron ore miners is a bad idea

In China, today is known as singles day and has grown into the world's largest online shopping spree

The company looking to build one of the world's biggest prawn farms on a cattle station in the Northern Territory has just appointed former trade minister Andrew Robb as a strategic advisor to assist with investment partnering for the Project Sea Dragon

Recent research out of China suggests modern stone fruit breeding practices may have focused too much on size and weight, rather than flavour

WA's potato industry and its growers are still in the dark as to when a fourteen million dollar transition package will be delivered, despite assurance it would be available by the end of October

What started as a hobby from her remote cattle station in western Queensland - has now been recognised with a national business award

The Colvin stud was founded by the Lefroy family in 1955 but yesterday the flock was sold, not because of any financial hardship or pressure from the bank, but due to careful succession planning

The Trump win has confounded the pollsters, the voters, international markets, and Australian miners

Overnight the US Department of Agriculture lifted its estimate of America's corn and soybean harvest this season

Processor Harvey beef is urging producers in Western Australia to consider backgrounding their herd

A fourth-generation Kojonup sheep farmer has created an unofficial shearing museum on his property, roughly 300 kilometres south of Perth, to pay respect to an industry he loves

Australian Farmer of the Year Awards announced

Confirmation today that a well known winery in the state's south-west was sold for $20 million, a significant price tag that some analysts are saying sets a serious benchmark in the market

The political blame game over the backpacker tax has escalated today, as the Senate prepares to debate the controversial legislation

It'll take 12 months to complete and it's findings won't be binding but the ACCC has outlined the terms of reference for its long awaited inquiry into the Australian dairy industry

This week in Morocco talks have started on how the world can meet the climate change commitments it made in Paris last year

The New York times is predicting Donald Trump will win the US election, and if he does become the president of the United States, it may be good thing for Australian farmers

The Western Australian yabby industry is going gangbusters, according to a local exporter

A Senate showdown is looming on the backpacker tax, but if farmers thought that meant 18 months of uncertainty was almost at an end, they might be disappointed

The state's main grain handler the CBH Group says some issues and delays have been created in the sample shed as a result of a recent decision by the APVMA to allow a late season spray of glyphosate on feed and food grade barley crops

The float of Australia's largest chicken producer, Inghams, landed on one of the Stock Exchange's most jittery trading days, with uncertainty about the US election and Brexit

A new farm on Christmas Island has helped halve the cost of vegetables there and the model could be used in other regional communities facing high grocery prices

Young people are trying to change the conversation around ice use in rural communities

Industry and the CSIRO have again joined forces with private enterprise, this time in mining

An olive grower in the south west says an outbreak of a sap sucking pest means he must rip up his trees and burn them

The company running a new meatworks in the Kimberley is getting ready to export its beef for the first time with the first consignment set for the Middle East

The Grains Industry Association of WA predicts frost has wiped 18 per cent of potential yield off the state's grain harvest this year

No matter which new President is sworn in to the Oval office this week the real winner will be that most precious of all metals, gold